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QUESTION LIST; Page Number 52
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  1. The Mel Gibson Set-up and his capitulation for "the fear of the Jews" (Est 8:17, Jn 7:13, 19:38, 20:19)

  2. A Christian Arab woman's uncomplimentary assessment of Christian men and women under the sway of the amoral International Judaics

  3. The "woman wearing a veil in church" doctrine of (some of) the COG (Church of God) denominations; also, Homosexuality/Lesbianism; and gender roles

  4. On keeping the Old Testament festivals

  5. Why is International Jewry now intentionally sabotaging itself?

  6. Millennium/no second chance; and the great importance of identifying chronology to understand Scriptural flow

  7. Surgical birth control

  8. A reader objects to statement that "smoking dope" and masturbating is not a sin in the Bible

  9. A Catholic writes critical

     

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The Mel Gibson Set-up and his capitulation for "the fear of the Jews" (Est 8:17, Jn 7:13, 19:38, 20:19)

 

A reader writes:

Hello Nick,

After the lashing that Mel Gibson got over his statement about the Jews
on the media last night, I was looking in your site for a good
definition of what a Semetic really is.  I know I read it before and
would like to go back and give it a second study.

God Bless

[Xxxxx]
 

Answer:

Yes, I too have been following this story.  And I have some comments to make on it from the perspective of a Police Officer (which I am by trade).  But first I shall answer your question.  A Semite is anyone descended from Noah's son Shem (Shemite = Semite).  This includes all of true Israel (the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and kindred peoples), most Arabs, and a host of other peoples.  It does not, ironically, include 95% of today's so-called "Jews" who use the term in their libelous "AntiSemite" pejorative. 

     There are two main groups of "Jews" today, the Sephardic and the Ashkenazi Jews.  Today's Jews, the 90%-95% (number disputed and unascertainable) that are what is called Ashkenazi Jews, are of Japheth, one of Noah's other sons, and they herald from the Turko-Mongoloid Khazar peoples.  They also have other blood in them that we won't go into presently.  But the point is that these so-called "Jews" have no true Israel (and little Shemite/Semite) blood in them.  See the below articles and e-books that we carry which are written by Jews themselves, lest you think this is so-called AntiSemitism:    

   The Thirteenth Tribe by Arthur Koestler

   Facts Are Facts by Benjamin H. Freedman

   The Life of an American Jew in Racist Marxist Israel by Jack Bernstein

   A Jewish Defector Warns America by Benjamin H. Freedman

Now to the Mel Gibson incident

     I will comment on this from the perspective of a Police Officer.  I have been a Police Officer in a major Midwest City for almost twenty years now.  When I first heard this story breaking I was shocked by something that I know that many others, not being Police officers, missed.  I refer to the sabotage story:

Arresting deputy didn’t want to ‘defame’ Gibson
‘I don’t take pride in hurting Mr. Gibson’ says officer, who is Jewish

Surprise!, the Officer who leaked info in the Gibson case is a Judaic

Below he is seen shamelessly posing with official police and court records, nicely fanned out, of the arrest incident for distribution to the mass media 

Los Angeles County Sheriff deputy James Mee speaks to a reporter Monday, July 31, 2006, as he arrived at his home in Calabasas, Calif. The allegations of anti-Semitism during the drunken driving arrest of actor-director Mel Gibson on Friday, July 28, stemmed from a leaked arrest report that quoted Gibson as saying, "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," and asking deputy Mee, "Are you a Jew?" (AP Photo/Nick Ut) ― Source

...“I don’t take pride in hurting Mr. Gibson,” said Mee, a 17-year deputy who is Jewish. “What I had hoped out of this is that he would think twice before he gets behind the wheel of a car and was drinking. ... I don’t want to ruin his career. I don’t want to defame him in any way or hurt him.”

An official police report on the arrest substantiates claims that Gibson made anti-Semitic remarks and threatened a deputy, officials said earlier Monday.

Sheriff’s Department officials sent prosecutors their case, which also says a tequila bottle was found in Gibson’s car when he was pulled over.

The entertainment Web site TMZ.com had reported that the sheriff’s department was considering eliminating the anti-Semitic remarks from its official report.

The report forwarded to prosecutors cites Gibson as making disparaging comments about Jews, according to the law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter." Source

    So, the officer doesn't "take pride in hurting Mr. Gibson"?  I'm sorry, that Police Officer is lying through his teeth.  And Gibson ought to get a good attorney who will have no problem showing that by the Officer's actions, he was prejudiced towards Mr. Gibson and therefore unable to make an unbiased and untainted Arrest Report on him.  In other words, the Officer has put his own credibility on the line.  How so?  We shall explain that momentarily.  And I shall show that Officer Mee should be brought up on internal discipline charges for several of his actions, which were both unprofessional and improper, and I would suspect against the very rules and regulations of his own department―especially if Officer Mee profits financially by this, which he surely shall, if he already hasn't.

     But first I must say that I am not here defending drunk driving, nor do I perceive that Mel Gibson is defending his drunk driving (in fact he has owned up to it, which is more than most do who have a pending court case).  That isn't the point here, ironically.  Gibson is not being lampooned for drunk driving, he is being pilloried for daring to say the truth about our Judaic overlords.  The Judaic-controlled media likes to hype this us by using pejorative terms such as "AntiSemitic tirades," etc.  But what did Mel Gibson really say?  According to their own reports, the statements that so offended the Judaic masters were:

"TMZ reported that Gibson said, 'The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world,' and asked the arresting officer, 'Are you a Jew?'" ― Source

    Ok, he asked the officer if he was a Jew.  Probably because he (rightly) sensed that he was being baited.  And regarding the comment "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world," what of it?  Gibson didn't say anything that wasn't true, or anything that Jewish authors and rabbis themselves haven't lauded over our heads.  For instance (and I have many more), the Judaic author, Marcus Eli Ravage, a member of the staff of the New York Tribune, in "A Real Case Against the Jews," carried in Century Magazine, January-February edition of 1928, arrogantly and fearlessly stated:

"If you really are serious when you talk of Jewish plots, may I not direct your attention to one worth talking about? What use is it wasting words on the alleged control of your public opinion by Jewish financiers, newspaper owners, and movie magnates, when you might as well also justly accuse us of the proved control of your whole civilization...

You have not begun to appreciate the real depth of our guilt. We are intruders. We are subverters. We have taken your natural world, your ideals, your destiny, and have played havoc with them. We
[Jews] have been at the bottom of not merely of the latest war
[WWI] but of nearly all your wars, not only of the Russian but of every other major revolution in your history. We have brought discord and confusion and frustration into your personal and public life. We are still doing it. No one can tell how long we shall go on doing it...Who knows what great and glorious destiny might have been yours if we had left you alone.

But we did not leave you alone. We took you in hand and pulled down the beautiful and generous structure you had reared, and changed the whole course of your history. We conquered you as no empire of yours ever subjugated Africa or Asia. And we did it solely by the irresistible might of our spirit, with ideas, with propaganda...

Take the three principal revolutions in modern times, the French, the American and Russian. What are they but the triumph of the Jewish idea of social, political and economic justice? And the end is still a long way off. We still dominate you...

Is it any wonder you resent us? We have put a clog upon your progress. We have imposed upon you an alien book
[the Scofield Bible, with it's pro-Zionist footnotes] and alien faith [Judeo-Christianity, a false Christianity] which is at cross-purposes with your native spirit, which keeps you everlastingly ill-at-ease, and which you lack the spirit either to reject or to accept in full...We have merely divided your soul, confused your impulses, paralyzed your desires...

So why should you not resent us? If we were in your place we should probably dislike you more cordially than you do us. But we should make no bones about telling you why...You Christians worry and complain about the Jew's influence in your civilization. We are, you say, an international people, a compact minority in your midst, with traditions, interests, aspirations and objectives distinct from your own. And you declare that this state of affairs is a measure of your orderly development; it muddles your destiny. I do not altogether see the danger. Your world has always been ruled by minorities; and it seems to me a matter of indifference what remote origin and professed creed of the governing clique is. The influence, on the other hand, is certainly there, and it is vastly greater and more insidious than you appear to realize...

That is what puzzles and amuses and sometimes exasperates us about your game of Jew-baiting. It sounds so portentous. You go about whispering terrifyingly of the hand of the Jew in this and that and the other thing. It makes us quake. We are conscious of the injury we did when we imposed upon you our alien faith and traditions. And then you specify and talk vaguely of Jewish financiers and Jewish motion picture promoters, and our terror dissolves in laughter. The Gentiles, we see with relief, will never know the real blackness of our crimes...

You call us subversive, agitators, revolution mongers. It is the truth, and I cower at your discovery...We undoubtedly had a sizable finger in the Lutheran Rebellion, and it is simply a fact that we were the prime movers in the Bourgeois Democratic Revolutions of the century before last, both in France and America. If we were not, we did not know our own interests. The Republican revolutions of the 18th Century freed us of our age-long political and social disabilities. They benefited us...You go on rattling of Jewish conspiracies and cite as instances the Great War and the Russian Revolution! Can you wonder that we Jews have always taken your anti-Semites rather lightly, as long as they did not resort to violence?"

     Ok, here's the problem that I mentioned in the beginning of this article.  AntiSemitic remarks are not against the law in America, and they have no place in a Police report that is supposedly detailing a drunk driving arrest.  I have read literally dozens of stories on this incident, and in one, they made a big deal that Officer Mee was asked to redo his report removing inflammatory sections.  That is what Officer Mee's supervisors should have done!  What Mee did was to let his Jewishness cloud his better Judgement as a Police Officer.  I have been called many things in my 20 years as a Policeman, none of them making it into official Police reports because they are irrelevant to the charges that the offender was under arrest for.  Now, had Gibson, say, shot a man and said that he did it because the man was Jewish and "the Jews start all the wars," then it would be appropriate to include that narrative in the Police report.  But Gibson was not under investigation for a Hate Crime, he was under investigation for driving while under the influence of alcohol.  His political views and grasp of history not at all being relevant to that crime.  Let's look at one of the stories and analyze it for intent, because I see clearly what is going on here, as should any other in the courts system or Police fields:

"The entertainment Web site TMZ.com had reported that the sheriff’s department was considering eliminating the anti-Semitic remarks from its official report.

The report forwarded to prosecutors cites Gibson as making disparaging comments about Jews, according to the law enforcement official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter." Source

     Two things here are evident, one, that somebody knowingly and unlawfully leaked info that they shouldn't have, "on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter".  And two, that the supervisor was overridded when Officer Mee went to his Jewish press pal to pressure the Police Department to slant this case against Mel Gibson by including immaterial and inflammatory information into the Police report that Mr. Gibson shall be tried in court upon.  Ironically, in effect, they helped Gibson's case in court, and will most likely have caused it to be thrown out in preliminary hearings based upon Officer Mee's improper, personal-based, and prejudicial conduct during and after the arrest.

    What appears to have happened, to me, is that this Jewish Officer saw a chance to get back at "The passion of the Christ" Mel Gibson; perhaps he was laying for Mel, following him for days.  Who knows, the whole thing may have been a set-up from the beginning, evident by the "coincidence" that pictures have "surfaced" from a bar that very night showing Mel drunk [Mel's photos from before his DUI arrest  Check gallery of Gibson boozing it up at restaurant --In Touch Weekly].  What a "coincidence."  In captions of the pictures at that Website Gibson is reported to have said, "God, I am drunk."  Did that mean that he felt that it was hitting him harder than it should?  If I were Gibson I would go immediately for a drug screen to see if I had been slipped a Mickey (dosed). 

     Or maybe Officer Mee was just on the lookout for whenever the known drinker Gibson drives by.  Mel, being drunk, fell right into Officer Mee's hands.  Mee probably baited Gibson with little remarks like "The Jews are God's chosen," and "we are all Jews now," etc.  For why would Gibson ask him if he was Jewish, if he wasn't acting as though he was.  Thus taunting the drunk Gibson and causing him to speak on the Jewish question while not in his right faculty.  I am sure that Gibson doesn't go around to Cops speaking on the well-known (and admitted by them, see below) Jewish instigation of wars unless led there.  Also, Gibson is reported to have said "F*ck the Jews."  That kind of outburst is usually only in reply to some comment by another.  Unless we are to believe that in a drunken stupor Gibson was wandering around the police station incoherently rambling "F*ck the Jews, F*ck the Jews, F*ck the Jews."  No, evidenced by his after-arrest conduct, it is far more likely that the Officer purposely made some statement to draw Gibson out. 

     Then the Jewish Cop, sensing revenge for the Passion movie, which he undoubtedly saw as "AntiSemitic," as so many Judaics do, commenced to write down these "AntiSemitic comments" in the Police report.  Then handed it in to his supervisor for approval.  The supervisor rightly saw that the arrest report was flawed and improper, and that if sent through in it's present form would probably exonerate Gibson by means of a tossed-out case. 

     Mee wasn't going to let that happen.  Here was Mel "son of a Holocaust denier" Gibson served up on a silver platter.  He will pay for what he said, and for what his father believes in, and for what Hitler did; and the hell with the DUI case.  Mee contacts a fellow Judaic in the media, faxes him the original report, and says that if he doesn't get involved and scare his supervisor, Gibson will get away with his "AntiSemitism."

    Then the Judaic media man calls Mee's supervisor's supervisor, and asks if "AntiSemitism is his department's policy."  After a few more words about "press coverage" and "media spotlight," and the prospect of the original report showing up on CNN ABC, NBC, MTV, etc. et al, the boss of Mee's supervisor says to take a step back and approve Mee's repost as submitted.  This entire department should be investigated if justice there can circumvented by a threatening phone call from someone purporting to be a news reporter!  Police supervisors have the right and the duty to approve all reports before they are submitted, and to direct the Officer to make changes where appropriate―that is what they are there for―to supervise.  And when a supervisor signs a report, as they must sign all Police reports, he is taking responsibility for it's content.  Mee's supervisor was forced to sign a bad report, for "the fear of the Jews" (Est 8:17, Jn 7:13, 19:38, 20:19).  This is your justice system in action.

     These are things that a jury would have to look at, had this case gone to trial, which it won't.  Gibson will strike a plea bargain, plead guilty, pay a fine, do community service (no doubt in the Jewish community), and all will be swept clean.  And Officer Mee will not be disciplined, for "the fear of the Jews" (Est 8:17, Jn 7:13, 19:38, 20:19).  Gibson will never again make a movie that the Jewish censors don't fully approve of.  Everybody wins but the truth.

     What is being lost in all this Jewish sentiment is that the accused has rights.  He had the right to a fair and impartial investigation in his arrest, and it is quite clear that Officer Mee let his Jewishness cloud his better Judgement.  So that now, no court can be certain of anything written in that report by Officer Mee.  In judicial work there is a saying that goes like this: "the fruit of the poison tree is inadmissible."  What that means is that any evidence that was gathered after an impropriety on the part of any Police investigator is thereby inadmissible in court.  In other words, Mel Gibson's Police report may well be inadmissible in court. 

     In other words, if Mel has the guts to fight this, he may well walk free.  Officer Mee would then have to pay a heavy cost for that in disciplinary hearings.  And it also opens up all of the other cases that Officer Mee worked on to greater scrutiny, as it is apparent that Officer Mee places personal racial pride and prejudices over impartial Police investigation.  I wonder how Officer Mee's Arabic arrestees fare?  Officer Mee does not belong on the street having contact with citizens.  And if he worked for my Police Department he would answering telephones somewhere in a basement office away from civilian contact, most likely stripped of Police powers pending investigation of the leak and the tainted investigation of Gibson.  It will be interesting if his department buckles to Judaic pressure and does not discipline Officer Mee.  Today, in the Judaic media, Officer Mee is a hero, tomorrow in his department he may be under investigation.  But that is in a perfect world, where truth matters and all are treated equally.  But Officer Mee isn't equal, he is royalty, he is a Judaic. 

Screen capture of AOL's news ticker, Aug 1st, 2006; where we see in action the power of "the fear of the Jews" (Est 8:17, Jn 7:13, 19:38, 20:19).  You also have to wonder where the Judaic-controlled AOL (America On-Line) found the above picture to use here, making Mel look like he is scared to death of his Judaic masters.  Some Judaic Website programmer searched the archives high and low to select just the "right" picture to place here with Mel's mia Culpa (my apology).  The beast is so easy to see through once you know his methods.  His method here was perception control.  Without reading a word, one look at that picture and you immediately sense that the man in it just did something very terrible and is scared and in big trouble with somebody, maybe even God by the way they have him looking upwards.  It's all a tactic to train your mind into their thought.

     Sadly, Gibson broke down and is now presently groveling for Judaic forgiveness.  Something that, as we shall and even now do see, is going to be drawn-out and painful.  The Judaics do not forgive; remember their own saying: (full unsanitized version) "Never Forgive, Never Forget," not as you have heard it as just "Never forget," as evidenced by the AntiGentile Abraham Foxman:

"Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, called Gibson's apology 'unremorseful and insufficient'." ―Source

     What more does the Racist Abraham Foxman want out of Mel Gibson?  His head by guillotine?  The Judaics shall extract their pound of flesh, and they won't make it easy on Mel Gibson.  Observe the below absurd story carried on the TMZ outlet that "broke the story" (and no doubt were the meddlers that influenced Mee's Police Department to keep intact the inflammatory comments in the arrest report).

     Observe also, how the arrogance of the Judaic editor of the below Website actually makes a case for the "Jews controlling everything and everyone," including, as TMZ notes for us, Pope Benedict XVI and Senator Hillary Clinton.  What happens is that when the Judaics feel strong, they make mistakes and let out secrets showing their terrible power, as Mr. Harvey Levin, the Judaic managing editor of TMZ.com has done in the below posting which mocks Mel Gibson with the typical Judaic revenge. 

     I suspect that the Learned Elders of Zion are not at all happy with the bad press that this incident shall ultimately bring upon International Jewry, as many shall see this as vengeance for Gibson overriding Abraham Foxman and making the Passion of the Christ movie; just as the persecutions last year of "Holocaust Deniers" has injured Judaic standing in the world.  They are being exposed by their own arrogance.  Also, with Gibson's picture below observe again their tactic of picture-selection to taint a story and torment a victim of their persecution.  Also, while reading the below lies, also bear in mind their Yiddish saying, "Never Forgive, Never Forget."  They don't want Gibson's apology, they want his public begging and humiliation.

Gibson's New Gig -- Yom Kippur Keynote Speaker?

TMZ has obtained a letter from a prominent Los Angeles Rabbi asking Mel Gibson to speak at his temple on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement.

Mel Gibson: ExclusiveIn the letter, David Baron, the Rabbi for the Temple of the Arts, the largest entertainment industry synagogue in the United States, wrote: "...I wish to invite you to come and speak in order that you might directly express to the Jewish community your remorse. I feel that Yom Kippur, Day of Atonement, would be an appropriate time."

Rabbi Baron added: "In our faith we are commanded to forgive when the offending party takes the necessary steps and offers an apology from the heart."

pope and rabbiRabbi Baron, who recently spent time with Pope Benedict XVI, has had prominent Yom Kippur speakers in the past. Last year, Senator Hillary Clinton spoke on personal forgiveness.

On Tuesday, Gibson acknowledged he made anti-Semitic remarks while under arrest on suspicion of drunk driving. The actor reached out to the Jewish community to "help me on my journey through recovery." Gibson said he was not anti-Semitic but added "I am in the process of understanding where those vicious words came from..."

TMZ contacted Gibson's rep. No word back on whether Gibson will accept the holy offer.

     Pleeeaase, "holy offer"?  Stop it, we aren't that stupid anymore.  You yourselves have educated us to your ways, dum-dums.  :o)

     And as for you, Mel Gibson; you blinked when you should have been staring―now they own you.  Shame on you.  You should have taken the DUI, yes; but you shouldn't have backed-down when all you said was the truth.  The International Judaics do start all the wars, including this present one in Lebanon which we or the UN shall have to extract them from, or that may spread region-wide.  And they are chomping at the bit to bomb Iran.  Syria is currently under high alert (wisely) fearing Israeli attack.  The whole world is very nervous right now.  From the Judaic's own manifesto we see that they admit to causing wars.  How come it isn't "AntiSemitic" when a Jew says it?

...[3.] We [Jews] must be in a position to respond to every act of opposition by war with the neighbors of that country which dares to oppose us: but if these neighbors should also venture to stand collectively together against us, then we must offer resistance by a universal war [WWI and WWII (and WWIII in the Mideast?)].

[4.] The principal factor of success in the political is the secrecy of its undertakings: the word should not agree with the deeds of the diplomat.

[5.] We must compel the governments of the GOYIM [a pejorative for non-Jews―i.e., human cattle] to take action in the direction favored by our widely conceived plan, already approaching the desired consummation, by what we shall represent as public opinion, secretly promoted by us through the means of that so-called "Great Power" - THE PRESS, WHICH, WITH A FEW EXCEPTIONS THAT MAY BE DISREGARDED, IS ALREADY ENTIRELY IN OUR HANDS.

― Source: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, Protocol No. 7.  1897, but published in 1905 (The Protocols of…Zion were the minutes of the First Zionist Congress held at Basle, Switzerland in 1897 under the presidency of the ‘father of Modern Zionism,’ the late Theodore Herzl.)  A copy of the Protocols of…Zion is in the British Museum bearing the date of its reception, August 10, 1906.  Source: https://watchman.news/watchman-bs-site-arcv/plez.htm#26

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POSTSCRIPT:

News Story added on 25, Aug, 2006 (approx. three-four weeks after above article was written).  The below shows that perhaps the attacks on Mel Gibson are latent Jewish hatred over the Passion of the Christ movie.  [Bracketed text] mine―WBSG:

 

Reiner: Gibson, Come Clean on `Passion'

Rob Reiner: Gibson Must Acknowledge That `Passion' Was Anti-Semitic

Source: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=2358573&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

LOS ANGELES Aug 25, 2006 (AP)— Mel Gibson's apology for making drunken anti-Semitic remarks isn't enough to redeem him, actor-producer Rob Reiner said.

The actor also must acknowledge that "his work reflects anti-Semitism," particularly the 2004 hit movie "The Passion of the Christ," Reiner told Associated Press Radio.

"When he comes to the understanding that he has done that, and can come out and say, you know, `My views have been reflected in my work and I feel bad that I've done that,' then that will be the beginning of some reconciliation for him," Reiner said.

Some critics attacked Gibson's movie as portraying Jews as evil. Supporters said the movie was merely being faithful to Gospel accounts of Jesus' arrest and crucifixion.

A call to Gibson's publicist seeking comment was not immediately returned Friday.

Gibson publicly apologized for an anti-Semitic tirade he unleashed when he was arrested for drunken driving in Malibu on July 28. He has called the remarks "despicable."

Earlier this month, Gibson pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge in a deal that calls for alcohol rehabilitation, fines and probation.

Reiner, however, said Gibson also must do some "major soul-searching."

"It's not a matter of just apologizing for some words you've said," said Reiner, who is Jewish. "It's to really understand why it is you're anti-Semitic and where those feelings came from."

"I [the Judaic Reiner - WBSG] believe that people [the Christian Mel Gibson - WBSG] can be redeemed and people can change, but that's going to be a very long process," he added.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
 


WBSG note:  What on Earth would the Judaic Christ-denying Reiner know about "redemption," having denied the Prince of Life, Jesus Christ?  And as for the "very long process" (for Gibson's redemption and "change") in the last paragraph above; that just reflects the Judaic aversion to forgiving others.  "Never Forgive, Never Forget" ― the true uncensored Jewish saying.  Sanitized for Goyim (human cattle; i.e., non-Jews) consumption to simply: "Never Forget."

Acts 3:14-15
14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;
15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.  KJV

 

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A Christian Arab woman's uncomplimentary assessment of Christian men and women under the sway of the amoral International Judaics

 

Below is an interesting article that inadvertently explains much of what we have been saying here at WBSG regarding the International Judaic's degrading of our morals, specifically the morals of our women.  The article is from a Website called Crescent & Cross, and I don't know anything about it except what they say of themselves in their "about us" page:

"The Crescent and The Cross Solidarity Movement Mission Statement: Telling the truth about the relationship between Christianity and Islam and why they have been deliberately set at war against each other by interested third parties." ― Source

     The author of the article, Joanna Francis, is clearly upset.  She is angry and doesn't mince words.  She appears, from this article (and forgive me if I'm wrong), to be an Arab Christian living in America writing of what is transpiring in the Israeli war on Lebanon.  Her first loyalty seems to be to Arabs, which is her right.  But for an American, she seems less than patriotic.  Though I may be reading her wrong through her anger (she is rightly upset at all the innocents in Lebanon who are being killed).  But she fails to notice that the terrorist group Hezbollah (whom she calls "men" compared to American men whom she refers to as "bitches") is fighting from among them, drawing Israeli fire power at them.

     The only comment that I would make to Ms. Francis is that it is not a particularity brave thing to do for Hezbollah to hide among civilians hoping that their inadvertent deaths can become political economy to their political organization.  American men, or as she calls us, "bitches,"  would not fight and hide amongst civilians thereby endangering them.  After all, they are firing rockets from the rooftops of civilian structures―what did they think any enemy army would do in such a case, just shrug their shoulders and say "we can't take out that missile battery because civilians are nearby"?

     No, Hezbollah intends for a high civilian casualty rate to turn the powers of the political in their favor.  Which it is succeeding in doing.  Take for instance the Qana strike which killed 56 people, the majority of them children.  In one article that I have seen, by [The Lebanese website LIBANOSCOPIE], the children are reported to be handicapped children that Hezbollah moved into the building purposely.  Then set up a missile launce site on the building's roof.  And when Israel bombed the missile site, the sacrificed victims were killed.  The media then moved in, and the rest is history.  Hezbollah gained a tremendous amount of political economy from that "operation," as they call them.  The sad thing is that Hezbollah thought that handicapped children were less important that other children―and thus chose them as sacrificial victims for their own selfish ends.  Ms. Francis is either an intelligence operative or very naive, or perhaps just blinded by racial pride, or is an emotional woman. 

     As to my position on this war?  I feel that Israel was very foolish to get drawn into this.  They cannot win, even if they win.  That is the terrorist's game, for they cannot loose, even if they loose.  Hezbollah won the moment that Israel bit.  Hezbollah is now the top dog movement in the global Islamic resistance to Israel, surpassing Al Qaeda in one fell swoop―even if every last Hezbollah fighter is killed.  For terrorist-style organizations, dying is not losing.  Muslims have a thing for the martyr complex.  That is why healthy young Muslim men blow themselves up because they are misled into thinking that they will be martyrs rewarded by God.  What a shock they have when the bright flashes into their eyes as the bomb goes off and they instantly see God, and feel His great anger at their murders and their own suicide―which alone would have been enough to anger God, much less taking innocent civilians along with them!  The Islamic martyrs are not enjoying themselves in Heaven defiling (raping) 72 virgins, they are in hell awaiting Judgement Day.

     And no, neither the Muslims nor the Jews have rights to Israel―it belongs to Christians through Jesus Christ (and Christian Great Brittan had it after 1914, the Muslims lived there since then, and the Jews stole it in 1948), though we (Christians) shall not have it again until after antichrist defiles it in the Great Tribulation, and God cleanses it for all eternity.

     Unfortunately, regarding the Christian West's capitulation to International Jewry, she is not altogether incorrect.  And she paints quite an ugly picture of the once-Christian Western nations, especially America, under Judaic amoral sway.  Anyway, below is that article (Original source) provided without further comment:
 

"Regarding what took place on September 11, well it's very good... Well, it's not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy for Israel."  -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to the attacks on America as reported in The Jerusalem Post, September 12, 2001.


Hezbollah: Model for Manliness — Joanna Francis

As I watch the genocidal war crimes being committed against the Lebanese people, I’m struck by the images that come across my television screen. I see women and children badly burned by the illegal chemical weapons our tax dollars provide to the Israelis for the incineration of their enemies; bridges, homes and roadways bombed into oblivion; hundreds of thousands of internal refugees; and death and misery palpable from halfway around the world.

But I must confess that what strikes me the most profoundly is the sight of young Lebanese men marching proudly, as they trample an Israeli flag underfoot. Hezbollah. Many of them don’t even look old enough to shave, and yet, they are truly men. The rest of the world hems and haws at the carnage the Jews have wrought on the once modern and beautiful country of Lebanon. But the average (so-called Christian) American merely echoes the mantra of his Zionist masters as he has been trained to do all his life. Americans confidently state that the Khazar Jews have a right to “defend their country” and that Hezbollah are terrorists, militants, and now, insurgents. What they fail to mention is that those Khazar Jews have about as much right to Palestine or Lebanon as the Chinese have to France, i.e., none. They are simply Jewish squatters on Arab land. And the Arabs intend to evict them. That is not terror. That is justice. And that is manly.

So, Mr. Brave Christian Weekend-Warrior, call Hezbollah terrorists if you will, but one thing you cannot call them is: cowardly. With few exceptions, they are the only people brave enough to stand up to the Jew and spit back in his face. They are willing to fight to the death for their homeland, their honor, their religion, and their women. Yes, I said “their women.” You see, unlike you, they will not let the Jewish pornographers and abortionists defile their culture and turn their women into whores. You have been brainwashed into believing that Muslim women hate their plight of being protected from sexual predators, getting married young, becoming mothers, being treated with respect and dignity, being taken care of in their old age by their children, and living like innocent, strong, beautiful women. To your surprise, they do not seem to miss the beer-guzzling, Playboy reading, commitment-phobic, narcissistic men-children who turn their women over to the Jewish enemy. Their men are truly manning the frontlines, as you strain your back to bow as low as possible before your Jew masters, in true lackey fashion. They own you, because you have sold yourselves (and us) out to them. You, Mr. Macho, have become their bitch.

You are the unworthy sons of the great Christian men who built Western Civilization. They were not cowards, and they did not fight for the Jew, but for their own religion, for Europe, and for the safety and honor of their women. They kept the evil Khazar monsters locked up in cages where they belong; only to see their descendants unleash those beasts at the time of the Protestant Revolt. How our Christian ancestors must be turning over in their graves. Today, Christian men will only fight against other Christians (World Wars I and II) or against brave, honorable Muslims, at the behest of the Jew. Now, the Christians are the beasts in cages, only allowed out long enough to pimp for their Zionist masters, and buy the latest edition of “Girls Gone Wild.”

Those “girls gone wild” are your sisters and daughters, yet you contribute to their exploitation for your own dirty, secret pleasure. You have abdicated your role as men and defenders of the Faith. You have allowed yourselves to be emasculated by a bunch of ugly, Jewish feminists. You did not fight for our honor. It is truly stunning how quickly you ceded Western Civilization, deciding that if you can’t beat them, you’ll join them. And so you gleefully set about exploiting our vulnerability, using us like unpaid prostitutes, too weak and selfish to accept your responsibility as head of a family. As a Christian, I do not believe in polygamy, but I can’t help but admire the kind of man who can take care of four wives, and all their offspring; while American men put their one wife to work and then expect her to cook, clean, feed their insatiable egos, and then have to compete with their childish, Jew-inspired fantasies in bed at night.

So admit that you are powerless before the Khazar, step aside, and let “your women” do the fighting. I have only my pen with which to fight, but at least I’m not afraid to wield it, full blast, aimed right at my enemy. Criticize me if you will, but I will pull no punches, use euphemisms, or grovel before my enemies. I have lost too much to them. I will not be their bitch. Unlike you, with your sycophantic pen, when you dare even broach the subject at all, regarding who has usurped the great heritage our ancestors created. You make me ashamed to be an American woman. Muslim women need feel no such shame. Their men would die (and are dying) rather than hand their daughters and sisters over to the Jew to be defiled and degraded. Their honor is safe in the hands of their Muslim mujahadeen. That is manly.

And don’t tell me that Jesus Christ was a pacifist and that you are only turning the other cheek. Christ was not the effete, kumbaya, Birkenstock sandal-wearing, proto-hippie that the liberals would have us believe. He wanted us to love one another but He also believed in justice. Render unto Caesar, and all that. He confronted the Pharisees face to face with words that you could only fantasize about using, and wouldn’t dare utter, even though we live in the last country in the West where it’s legal to confront the Pharisees. Yet you cower before them, justifying their incineration of Lebanese babies, while you pay the Jew to murder the babies you create with us. You bow before the Israeli flag, a foreign flag, while the young men of Hezbollah march on top of it. Don’t hide behind Christianity. It is not for wimps and cowards. Let us not forget the image of Christ turning over the tables of the money changers and whipping them out of the temple! That was manly.

So the next time you turn on the Zionist-controlled television news and see images of dead and wounded women and children in Lebanon, just remember: their men are fighting for them against a far superior military force (thanks to us). But they are not cowering in fear. And I wouldn’t be surprised if they were to steal victory after all of this is over (if it ever is). Because all they have to do is survive and they have won. The Israelis have to eliminate Hezbollah to win, and that is unlikely. You can’t beat a force that is fighting for their families and for their homeland – in their own homeland. The home team always has the advantage. Truly, a moral victory is already assured for Hezbollah. Regardless of the outcome, they win just for having withstood so much firepower, and still being able to launch their hapless little Katyusha rockets back over the fence. Yes, that is manly. Maybe you American Christian men could learn something from them about fighting for honor, family and homeland. Maybe you could try to emulate Hezbollah. They might teach you a lesson or two in manliness. And if you’re nice, they might even lend you some testosterone.

Author:  joannafrancis2005@yahoo.com

 

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The "woman wearing a veil in church" doctrine of (some of) the COG (Church of God) denominations; also, Homosexuality/Lesbianism; and gender roles


A reader writes:

First I want to say I enjoy your site greatly and I have been studying the bible with you guys for over two years now.

My question is about a friend of mine who is with the Church of God and she tried to preach some nonsense to me about how Jesus already came back in the flesh "AGAIN" to fulfill the prophecy in the old testament about David's ministry reigning for 40 years. She said Jesus started his ministry at 30 was crucified at 33 so the prophecy from The Old Testament was not fulfilled. So he came in the flesh again for 37 years to minister and fulfill that old testament prophecy and then ascended back to heaven.

I thought this was very absurd to say the least. Basically I just want to know where in the scriptures I can go to help me explain to her that she is in great error when it comes to this matter. 

Her church also requires the women at the church to where veils or they are not following God's commandment.  I thought the veil issue for females pertained to the fallen angels? Hopefully you understand my main question and can help me out.

Thank You
God Bless
[X. X.]
 

Answer:

Hello.  You said in your above about your friend's church's doctrine that: "I thought this was very absurd to say the least."  It is indeed absurd.  And more than that―it is false teaching that leads the student into disregarding all the endtime warnings of the Bible.  As well as denying the glorious Second Advent to come.  It has the potential of invoking the below feelings in the hearts of the once-faithful Christian:

2 Peter 3:1-4
3:1 This second epistle, beloved, I now write unto you; in both which I stir up your pure minds by way of remembrance:
2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
[i.e., 'since the days of old nothing has changed and nothing will―Christ isn't coming,' they foolishly think] KJV

   And far more than "absurd," it is sinister, it is setting the stage for the false god, satan (2nd Thes 2:4), which we refer to in prophecy as the antichrist.

2 Thessalonians 2:3-4
3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day
[the Second Advent] shall not come, except [until after] there come a falling away first [the great apostasy], and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition [satan/antichrist];
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.  KJV
 

    The above prophecy finds its fulfillment in the below:

Revelation 13:4
4 And they worshipped the dragon
[satan/antichrist―see verse 11-12 ("ANOTHER beast")] which gave power unto the beast [the International Judaic's NWO]: and they worshipped the beast [NWO], saying, Who is like unto the beast [NWO]? who is able to make war with him [i.e., who can resist it?]?  KJV

     The COG (Church of God) is a corrupt "spiritualist" denomination that entertains familiar spirits (evil spirits) unawares.  They "feel" a "spiritual" presence, but it is not the Holy Spirit of God that they are experiencing.  Sign of the times, indeed.  Perhaps the below fits them well (as, sadly, it does so many other pseudo-Christian denominations and church movements):

2 Timothy 3:5-17
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as theirs also was.
10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus
[i.e., Christians] shall suffer persecution [note that well, Christian; for they are not vain words!].
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
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
[fully matured and ready for what comes], throughly furnished unto all good works.  KJV

    Regarding where your friend stated:

"Jesus already came back in the flesh "AGAIN" to fulfill the prophecy in the old testament about David's ministry reigning for 40 years."

    First of all, David was not a priest, he was king―he had no ministry.  And the "forty years" were fulfilled in David, circa 920 b.c.; for, David reigned seven years over Judah, then thirty-three years over the whole of combined Israel.  7[1] yrs. over Judah + 33 yrs. over all of Israel = 40 years reign (not "ministry").  FULFILLED in ca. 920 b.c.

[1] Actually 7½ yrs.; see verse five below.
2 Samuel 5:3-5
3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel.
4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.
5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.  KJV

    And yes, I know about types.  But if we aren't careful, we can end up "over-typing" everything in the Bible until it is all one big type, and nothing fulfilled in its own!  There are indeed "types" (examples, similitude's, etc.) in the Bible, many of them, in fact; however, not everything is a type.  Some things are fulfilled and put away into the history of the Holy Writ (Bible).  The great task then, is to determine which is which; and it is this that causes so many disagreements in interpretation―not the least of all in prophecy interpretation.  Your friend states:

"[because Jesus' ministry was only some three years long] So he [Jesus] came in the flesh again for 37 years to minister and fulfill that old testament prophecy and then ascended back to heaven."

    What many do then at this point is to identify some Bible teacher from within the last century and state that he (that Bible teacher) fulfilled "Jesus' ministry."  Blasphemous, to say the least!

     A little bit of history on the COG (Church of God) denomination is in order right about now.  From an outside Website (we are not endorsing or chastening this website ministry in any way―we haven't studied their doctrine to do that.  A word to the wise is sufficient).  But we enjoyed their below concise history of the COG movement.  Also observe that Herbert W. Armstrong did indeed set himself up as a finisher of Christ's work, as we mentioned in the above paragraph of these type false-ministries:

Below Source:  HERBERT W. ARMSTRONG American Minister, Educator, Radio and Television Evangelist World Wide Church of Godhttp://www.ondoctrine.com/10armsth.htm, quoting, The Watchman Expositor  [Note: not affiliated with our Watchmen Bible Study Group in any way]:

World-wide Church of God origins

QUOTE:

...NOTE
This article will reference the Worldwide Church Of God, which was originally founded by Herbert W. Armstrong. Since his death, the Worldwide Church Of God has been reorganized and has discarded many of the doctrines taught by Herbert W. Armstrong. The Worldwide Church Of God has attempted to identify itself more closely with traditional Christian doctrine.


HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

"Herbert W. Armstrong was born in 1892 in Des Moines, Iowa, into a Quaker family. In 1917, Armstrong was married to Loma Dillon. In 1927 Loma Armstrong became acquainted with the teachings of the Church of God-7th Day while they were living in Oregon. This was Armstrong's introduction to the Sabbatarian movement. The Church of God-7th Day split in 1933 and Armstrong was ordained a minister in the Church of God-7th Day which set up headquarters in Salem, West Virginia.

In 1934, Armstrong bought radio time and began The Radio Church of God. He also published his first mimeographed issue of The Plain Truth magazine. He was the minister of the COG-7th Day church in Eugene, Oregon at that time. In 1938, Armstrong was stripped of his COG-7th Day ministerial license. Armstrong had been teaching that the Jewish Feast days were binding on the church contrary to COG-7th Day doctrine. Armstrong retained his Eugene church and his radio ministry. In the years during the war, Armstrong taught that Armageddon was just around the corner. He taught that Mussolini and later Hitler were both the Antichrist. He made many specific false prophecies...

In 1947, he relocated the ministry to Pasadena, California. He began Ambassador College, a bible school to train ministers who would raise up churches under his leadership. In 1968, the name of the organization was changed to The Worldwide Church of God.

There was a split in the church in 1974, when forty ministers and several thousand members left the church because of doctrinal disputes and resulting abuses.

Armstrong disfellowshipped his son, Garner Ted, in 1978. Garner Ted formed his own church, The Church of God, International located in Tyler, Texas. By the mid-seventies, Armstrong was proclaiming himself God's apostle for the last days. In 1979, the state of California placed the church in receivership under allegations of financial abuses by church leaders. After lengthy court battles the courts removed the church from receivership."

Herbert Armstrong died in January 1986 at the age of 94."

The Watchmen Expositor.

     I would also like to point something ominous out in your friends statements, lest we read right over the subtlety.  I refer to where she said:

"So he [Jesus] came in the flesh again for 37 years to minister and fulfill that old testament prophecy and then ascended back to heaven"

     Do you realize what she is saying?  She is saying that Jesus Christ HIMSELF returned here to the Earth and led a ministry for 37 years (presumably in the person of her pastor or the founder of her denomination?).  Blasphemy!  There are today several denominations and splinters that believe this of their own pastors and Bible teachers.  Indeed, there were to be many antichrists.  Must I remind your friend:

Matthew 24:23-27
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he
[Christ] is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be
[evident to all the world, NOT to just some "select" group].  KJV  

     Can't you see where this is leading?  Wherein it is said in the above article that "...Armstrong was proclaiming himself God's apostle for the last days"; then, therefore, whatever that "Bible teacher" said, is, as they say "written in stone"―the very words of God even.  However, those "Bible teachers" that they variously refer to, have introduced much false doctrine into their respective congregations.  I, for the life of me (!!!), cannot fathom how any Christian, having opened and read the Good Book, could fall into some spiritually-corrupt group that teaches that Jesus Christ came in the flesh through their pastor/preacher or founder of their congregation!  And any man that allows this to be said (or even thought) of himself is one bad apple, indeed.  By that fruit you shall know them, and know that they are not from God―much less finishing Jesus' ministry!

Matthew 7:13-23
13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
16 Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
17 Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.  KJV

    And concerning the above, which may well be her fate, I chasten your friend to be mindful of the words of the Master, Jesus Christ:

Matthew 24:24-25
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.  KJV

    Regarding where your friend's church teaches/requires that:

"Her church also requires the women at the church to where veils or they are not following God's commandment.  I thought the veil issue for females pertained to the fallen angels?"

    As you can see, once a group starts descending into false doctrine they take-on all sorts of bizarre practices and traditions of men.  The Veil is Christ:

Hebrews 10:19-20
19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;  KJV

    Paul explains more perfectly on the matter in the below.  Observe please that at the end of his dissertation, Paul says in verse 16 that there is no such custom in the Christian churches; so, regardless of what was done (regarding women's head coverings) in the Old Testament "churches" (congregations), it is no longer practiced in Christianity.

     What confuses many is that Paul was speaking during the transition time between the Old Covenant and the New Covenant.  Remember to "rightly divide" (2nd Tim 2:15) as to times, places, peoples, etc.; in other words, to "rightly divide" is to look at a Scripture in context with its time, with whom is being spoken to/of, as to where it is taking place, is it prophecy or history, parable or exact event, type or antitype, etc. 

2 Timothy 2:15
15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.  KJV

     To "rightly divide" the era wherein the "veil" statements were made, we must understand that Paul was leading them out of Old Testament Judaic Temple worship and into New Testament Christian worship.  The woman of old wore veils; but today, in Christ, the churches need not have them wear a veil of silk or wool; for, they have Jesus Christ as a veil (covering, power) over them. 

    Below we shall examine the "veil" Scripture (1 Corinthians 11:3-16).  But first, regarding where you stated:

"...Her church also requires the women at the church to where veils or they are not following God's commandment.  I thought the veil issue for females pertained to the fallen angels?"

     You are correct in this; and we have a short study on that very topic on our Website that you may find informative: Why were women specifically warned to have the veil of Christ over them?

     As we go to our "veil" Scripture, notice also as a side note that, in verse 14 in the below, Paul touches on homosexuality and how that if a man is tempted by the fallen angels (evil spirits), which are all male, then he is perverted (homosexual).  In that verse 14 we see the words "have long hair" in regards to a covering; but it doesn't mean what it means to us today particularly; it means to dress up their hair like women do: ( Strong's Concordance: "have long hair" = Greek word #2863 komao (kom-ah'-o); from [Grk. word #]2864; to wear tresses of hair: KJV - have long hair).  It is referring to effeminized men (men being made feminine like women; i.e., homosexual) who must therefore be protected from the male fallen angels from sexual violation.  No doubt that with today's wanton Gay lifestyle, there shall be many homosexuals chomping at the bit to get at those fallen angels to be defiled by them, as they today defile themselves with each other.  Nevertheless, all this should surely be a relief to good strait Christian men who simply prefer to wear their hair long.  :o)

     But that last point is not important to our veil issue, I just mentioned it to remove confusion.  Apostle Paul is often-times difficult to teach because he says so much, spanning several topics, in so few words; as Apostle Peter observed: "...even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;  As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest..." (2nd Pet 3:15b-16a).  Nevertheless, observe the "veil" Scripture wherein Paul likens "hair" as an analogy to a covering, a veil of protection:

1 Corinthians 11:3-16
3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
5 But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
6 For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
8 For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man.
9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the
[evil (fallen)] angels.
11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither
[do the (true)] the churches of God.  KJV

    In verses 1 & 6-8 above, Paul also sets the hierarchy of: man over woman, God (by Christ) over man.  This bears greatly on the veil issue; for the veil is a covering, a protection; and the man is the protection of the woman and Christ is the protection of the man (as well as the woman, but the man is charged to be over the woman―but both of course under Christ).  Consider it like a command structure at your own workplace: the owner is the overall boss, but he sets managers over the workers.  So too is Jesus Christ (by God) over us all, but He set man over the woman.  To understand this dual authority we need only look at our own families: the woman is indeed over the child, as man is over the woman; but the man is also over the child, as Christ is over both the man and the woman.  So, as the child must obey both the woman and the man (mother and father), so too must the woman obey both (her!) man and Christ; yet, the child is not over the man nor the woman, neither is the woman over either the man or Christ.  Below is the hierarchy of family:

God
|

Christ
|
Man
|

Woman
|

Child
 

     So man was to be over the woman: "Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing." (Eph 5:24).  But satan changed all that in our corrupt society through Feminism, etc.  Yet so many well-meaning Christian woman are unwittingly "closeted-Feminists."  Though they will adamantly deny it―but yet live it out in many ways in their lives today.  The average Christian woman of today has absolutely no idea how God had instructed her to act, or where her "place" is―and are equally shocked when they find out; only to discover how very far they are from following God's commands.  They have been corrupted; "An enemy hath done this" ( Mat 13:28b).  Need I really drag the International Judaics into this again?  I could, you know.  They founded and lead the Feminist and Homosexual movements for their father satan.  "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do..." (Jn 8:44a).

Lust(s): Greek word #1939  epithumia (ep-ee-thoo-mee'-ah); from NT:1937; a longing (especially for what is forbidden): KJV - concupiscence, desire, lust (after). 

     And lustful movements they are!  When you boil it down, it's all about the sexFeminism allows women to sleep with whomever, whenever, without any commitment; Homosexuality allows men (and women) to engage in perverted and evil sexual liaisons with members of their own gender.  Bi-Sexuals are no better, and are just fooling themselves; and shall be judged as Homosexuals and Lesbians are judged.  Bi-Sexuality is a trap from satan.  Listen, just because "you" sleep with members of the opposite sex, it does not remove the fact that you sleep with members of your own gender―quite often in mini-orgy fashion ("threesomes," etc.).  Talk about lustful; sex purely for the sake of sex.  Hardly godly!  Many females fall into this trap in college, etc., and are programmed from early on that "two women together is OK."  Many men encourage this as well, and all the global International Judaic pornographers utilize it in their pornographic movies―even in so-called "soft-porn," which of course brings on the two aforementioned phenomenon (men pushing for, and woman doing, Bi-Sexual acts).  But it is all from satan, though, all of this filth; and he spreads it by his emissaries on this Earth―the international Judaics and their "lesser brethren."

     And no (!), nobody is "born gay;" Bi-Sexuals are excellent evidence of that, as are identical twins, with identical genetic structure―one being "strait" and the other "Gay."  And God didn't make anyone Homosexual (man-with-man sex) or Lesbian (woman-with-woman sex) ― no more than God made anyone a Pedophile (adult-with-child sex) or a Bestiality (human-with-animal sex) practitioner.  It's all just pure animal lust divorced from human moral

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     Nevertheless, as I have stated, Paul is so vast that he is difficult to teach without getting side-tracked on side-studies (as I just did above).  There is so much more in that above Scripture (1st Cor 11:3-16, etc.) that we haven't touched on for confusion's sake.  Nevertheless, Jesus Christ is that Veil that shall protect them from the fallen angels to come; i.e., the Christian women shall be safe and unravaged. 

     In conclusion:  A woman may wear her hair any way that she chooses in church (only that it be discrete and becoming a Christian woman of God).  And if she fancies a veil, that is fine; but just don't do it as by command; but rather, as by preference or style―for it is no command from God; it is rather just another tradition of man that has crept into the various denominations.  And we know what traditions of men do when they collide head-on with Scripture of God:

Mark 7:13
13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.  KJV

Colossians 2:8
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.  KJV

    Which traditions are we to observe and keep?  The ones in God's written Word, the Bible:

2 Thessalonians 2:13-17
13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace,
17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.  KJV

    So, anyway; your friend's church is entertaining evil spirits unawares, adding to the Scriptures, setting up false christs (false men claiming to do the work and bringing the revelation of Jesus Christ); yet, as in some kind of reverent-seeming tradition, they require their women to cover their heads with cotton and lace veils in church.  Amazing!  Is it not?  "Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel." (Mat23:24). 

    Can you see how satan is slowly, methodically, dismantling God's Christian churches through heresies, false doctrines, schisms, and blasphemous teachings?  Did you really expect it to be any other way in the end of the world? 

    And if not, then you can see how we are nearing that end presently; for, when the church finally fails (save for a remnant), then comes the end. 

    Christian women:  Stay close to your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and find a good Christian man to lead you and your precious children (perilous times are acoming)―for they are not your children alone; but rather they are the children of God which He has charged you with protecting and leading in all good ways, not the least of all into Christ Jesus.  And to the headstrong, pushy, bossy, obstinate, disobedient, among our Christian sisters: you shall learn the right ways instantly; for, there shall be no Christian Feminists in the Great Tribulation.  Times of trouble tend to put women into their place quite readily and in an instant.  :o)

    "You" Feminist women won't be trying to lead when the world goes to hell rapidly during the Tribulation, you shall revert back to your nature―a nature which satan has trained out of you presently (by means of the you-know-who's).  So quit playing games now and get into your place under a good Christian man.  And if you can't find one―then stay alone, sleep alone, and live alone in Christ Jesus.  And you never know, if you pray for one, He just might send him.  However, what will that good Christian man do with a Feminist minded fence-sitting Christian woman?  Or a woman who has been had by a multitude of other men―including even the heathen? 

    Christian Men:  Get yourselves worthy of being followed, and then maybe a Christian woman just might follow you.  Above all, though, men, stay yourselves on Christ; for, you too have been given a great responsibility by God―a responsibility that most all of us men have failed miserably to keep.  We are in charge of the women and children.  How have we lived up to that task?  Ha!  What children made it past the abortion chambers are grown up godless, and our women we have turned into whores.  Yes, we (men) shall answer for that as well. 

    We are all, both men and women, messed-up.  But we don't have to stay that way.  The choice is ours, and we shall judged upon it.  Repentance to God in Jesus Christ' name cleanses any and all sins that we may have committed till now.  Do repent, move forward, and change.  All things everywhere in Jesus Christ.

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On keeping the Old Testament festivals

 

A reader writes:

Subject: ANSWER PLEASE, IMPORTANT!!!!!!
Nick, Greetings! Please tell me of what we are to do for Feast of Tabernacle. Is it like in Leviticus. Tell me of the atonement to the Lord. This is new to me. Is their a reading of Psalms 118. Do we do as the old testament for seven days w/o service. Such as working as nurse?? All would be appreciated, Want to do it right, want to do God's way. Are you going? I want to but it not looking good. So I await instructions. I try to have a good day every day with the Lord. I ask for correction and remolding to his way. So he might find a pleasure in his child. Am I perfect? No! Way! but I try. All praise and glory go to him, w/o him I am nothing. A servant in Christ, Your friend , [Xxxxxxxx]


Answer:

Hi; the Feast of Tabernacles is an Old Testament feast that we do not need to keep.  And if we visit (with each other) during this time, it is not as in the Old Testament.  Christ became all that. 

    So relax, there is no wrong or right way to do it―as there is no admonition to even do it in the first place. 

    My understanding of the Feast of Tabernacles timing today at the Shepherds Chapel is just that it is a good "excuse" to meet and gather.  We do not abide to the OT procedures, as they would be an insult to Christ today. 

    Shepherds Chapel (and I do not speak for them, nor am I affiliated with them in any way save for fellowshipping in Christ Jesus) doesn't call this gathering: Feast of Tabernacles; they call it rather, "Fall Fellowship," because it is held in the Fall.  That is all there is to it. 

    Yes, I am going.  I have gone to both yearly events at the Chapel for the last 8-9 years. 

    Gathering with fellow Christians is so very important in these evil and godless endtimes.  Some day soon we will not be able gather together―by law.  Enjoy your religious freedom today―whilst you still have it.  And be good to each other―none of us are perfect, but we all Christians know SOMEONE who is.  That SOMEONE is Jesus Christ, our Savior and Friend.  And if we are on the ball, we work for Him.  And if we work for Him, then we are necessarily under His wing of protection.

John 15:13-15
13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.  KJV

PS:  I sense (and forgive me if I am wrong) that you are scared that "you might do something wrong" in pleasing God, or that you will make some accidental "technical error" and mess-up.  Please don't worry, you have the Scriptures—Follow them to the best of your ability and believe upon Jesus Christ and trust God, and He will understand.  We learn over time the Scriptures more perfectly, but in the beginning there is much that we do not understand.  God knows this and takes it all into account.  Stay in your Bible studies and things will become clearer and clearer as time goes by.  Don't be scared.  God loves you and upon repentance Jesus stepped in and took your place in punishment for your flaws and errors and sins. 

Don't be fearful when your heart is in the right place.

2 Timothy 1:7
7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.  KJV

    Whenever you aren't sure about something, then just pray to God in Jesus' name asking Him to guide you, and tell Him that you really want to be doing the right thing but you are confused on what that may be.  He will help you. 

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Why is International Jewry now intentionally sabotaging itself?

 

A (Judaic Christian) reader writes:

Rob Reiner1 represents the worst that Judaism has to
offer, as does Abe Foxman
3 and people like that. I
thought the whole Mel Gibson thing was a total
embarrassment. The only person Mel Gibson maybe owes
an apology to is the policeman he yelled at.

WBSG footnotes from reader's above mail                      
1  The reader is referring to the article that we recently added to the end of the Q&A:  The Mel Gibson Set-up and his capitulation for "the fear of the Jews" (Est 8:17, Jn 7:13, 19:38, 20:19).  The added article is entitled: "Reiner: Gibson, Come Clean on 'Passion' 2 ; Rob Reiner: Gibson Must Acknowledge That 'Passion' Was Anti-Semitic".
2
Mel Gibson's Jesus Christ movie, The Passion of the Christ.
3
The national director of the Jewish ADL (Anti-Defamation League).


Answer:

Hi.  I agree.  It seems that "they" are almost intentionally trying to turn world opinion against themselves.  Or, better said, an element within Jewry seems to be trying to sabotage the whole lump. 

    I have been noticing that very phenomenon since the opposition to The Passion of The Christ movie debacle.  And the extremely draconian extraditions, show trials, and imprisonments of men who simply choose to not believe in the extent of the Holocaust really stated opening every-day people's eyes regarding the almighty and terrible power of the "Jews."  This has the opposite effect if your intention was to secretly take control of the world.  Why expose themselves now?  Could it be that they are confident that they cannot be stopped; or, are they intentionally sabotaging their own plan? 

    Also, many once-suppressed books (from last century and beyond) dealing with sensitive information AGAINST "Jews" and Judaic exposés are suddenly popping up as available reprints on main-stream booksellers, like Amazon.com.  The same Amazon.com that four years ago wouldn't sell the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion without a heavy disclaimer! 

    And these once-lost books are only $15.00 dollars or so—whereas two years ago you'd have been glad to pay $50.00-$100.00 just for the chance of getting a worn-out copy of the book, used.  And you wouldn't find it. 

    And the way that they managed the war in Lebanon could only be interpreted as willful "make the world hate Israel."  For, that is what it is doing.  And then bombing the clearly marked UN observation camp, even after giving reassurances that it would be safe?!?!?!?!?!?  Nice move, intentionally killing a Chinese-national UN observer!  China doesn't like to forget. 

    How do you think the world will react if and when Israel bombs Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities, spewing radioactive waste & dust across Eastern Iran and a whole Southern swath of mother Russia on into western China (not to mention Afghanistan)?  Something that many agree they must do if they want to ensure their survival in the Mideast. 

    Something is up.  This is the same type of covert activity used by the International Judaics PRIOR to WWII.  "They" declared (economic) war on Germany [Judea Declares War On Germany―in 1933], deeply hurting her financially in a time of pre-war, on into a time of war; turned Hitler against the Jews; denied any country to take the Jewish refugees that Hitler wanted out of his country and the Reich-controlled areas of Europe―the rest is history (albeit skewed "history." 

    Keep your eyes open and your head down. 

    Peace to you in Christ Jesus.
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Millennium/no second chance; and the great importance of identifying chronology to understand Scriptural flow

 

A reader writes:

Hi Nick,

I just read, for the 2nd time, your answer regarding the "second chance" doctrine.  I was kind of shocked to learn there is nothing biblical that says the ones that will reign with Christ 1000 years will be priests preaching to spirit people.  I guess you can say my eyes were first opened by Pastor Murray and so I did study with him and therfore learned about what happens in the Millennium (what he teaches).  I was so surprised to learn that Satan is going to get all those souls to encompass the ones that are reigning with Christ and try to attack them.  Where do those souls come from that encompass Christ since the Great White Throne Judgment doesn’t occur until Rev. 20:11?

Rev 20:11  And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

When I read your answer the 2nd time and just cleared my mind of all past learning - it was clear to "see."  Before, I never saw how Christ and the others were being encompassed and attacked!  Where do they come from?  There are still questions I have and I guess I am trying to understand what happens when Satan comes down to earth on the 6th trump.  Just yesterday I heard a pastor on TV say Christ could come at any moment.  Of course I don't believe this since I know all the things Christ said HAD to happen would happen BEFORE Christ comes for His Second Advent.  I believe that Satan will sit on the mount of Olivet and want to be God and be worshipped as God - isn't that what Christ said?  Christ said that He would come AFTER satan so satan would have to do what Christ said he would and that is sit on the mount and act like God so people will worship him.  Isn't that why the rapturist would worship him (satan) and therefore worship the wrong one since they are "waiting for any moment for Christ to come?" 

2Th 2:3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;

I believe we are supposed to wait for Christ to come and that is one of the signs Christ said would happen - that the son of perdition would sit on mount to act like he is God and be worshipped as God.  I would know when I see this with my own flesh eyes that its Satan not Christ because I know that when Christ comes we all basically die and change from our flesh bodies to our spirit bodies.  Then like scripture says, Christ comes AFTER satan and that is when they realize that they have been worshiping satan.  Is that right?

So here I am - back to the second chance answer you gave and I now understand and believe.  I believe it because the scripture supports it and I could see with my eyes what the God says in His Word.  In Rev. 20:4 is it talking ONLY about the souls that overcame AFTER the Antichrist (Satan) came at the 6th trump?

Revelation 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

What I see in Rev. 20:4 is that it doesn't include the people that died like Lazarus and went straight up to God and didn't go on the other side like the rich man.  It looks like its ONLY talking about the souls that died after the 6th Trump was blown and Satan (AntiChrist) appeared.  In Rev. 20:5 who are "the rest of the dead" that its talking about?  Are they the ones like Lazarus who made it to heaven when they died - before Christ came?

Rev. 20:5 But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Now my next question is - who are those that encompased Christ "..to gather them to battle…"?  Since the Great White Throne Judgement hasn't happened yet, who are those that satan gathers from Gog and Magog - where is that place?

7 And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
8 And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog,
to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
9 And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them. KJV

Guess that's enough questions for now!
Have a wonderful blessed day. I look forward to your reply as it always learn so much from you and God's Word.
In His Service, [Xxxxxxxx]
 

Second postscript E-mail, same reader:

I just was rereading Genesis the beginning and I guess I wasn't paying attention before but I just realized the ANIMALS were made the same day as MALE/FEMALE.  Thanks for telling us to read the Bible ourselves cause I don't know how many times I read Gen 1 and thought the Animals were the 5th day when it was not that way.  On the Fifth day God created the Whales, fish and things of the "sea" and birds (fowl).  Then on the Sixth day he created the animals - all the beast of the earth - THEN he created male/female and that (animals/man) were both created on the 6th day.  I thought only man was created on the 6th day.

Adam was formed from the clay on the 8th day and then the domestic animals were created after the "man" Adam - the Eve was created from Adam's DNA after the domestic animals.  Thanks! I finally got it.

1st day - Day and Night created - this to me is the Lord to me cause I am a child of the Day not Night.  Besides that I know its good that God made in the world cause the sun/moon/stars/planets were made on the 4th day.  Also, I noticed that the planets were first made, then sun & moon then the stars!

2nd day - God made the firmament to separate the waters - guess this means there is water above some place?  It clearly says he put the firmament - heaven between the waters to separate them.

3rd day - Said the Waters need to be gathered into one place and let the dry land show.  Called the land "earth" the water "seas" - told the earth to bring up grass, herb yeilding seed, fruit trees whose seeds in itself.

4th day - Let there be light in the firmament to divide the day and night, for signs, seasons, days and years and for light (is this the planets?) - He then created the sun/moon and stars.

5th day - told the waters to bring forth whales and every moving creature that has life & fowl to fly in the open firmament of heaven. 

6th day - created every living creature on the earth, cattle, creeping thing of the earth  - THEN he created male/female in his likeness and told them to be fruitful and multipy.

7th  day - RESTED

8th day - Formed Adam in the Garden of Eden - alone.  Later made the domestic animals - then created Eve from Adam's DNA.

Got it!
[Xxxxxx]

 

Answer:

Hi Xxxxx.  Yes, the chronological order reveals much. 

    From your earlier points, you asked:

"What I see in Rev. 20:4 is that it doesn't include the people that died like Lazarus and went straight up to God and didn't go on the other side like the rich man.  It looks like its ONLY talking about the souls that died after the 6th Trump was blown and Satan (AntiChrist) appeared.  In Rev. 20:5 who are "the rest of the dead" that its talking about?  Are they the ones like Lazarus who made it to heaven when they died - before Christ came?"

    The side that Lazarus went to and the side that the rich man went to were in the same place.  They were, as you recall from Scripture, separated by a great divide.  And one could see over to the other side.  So, they were both in the same location.

    The "rest of the dead" are all others other than those resurrected in Rev 20:4.  In other words, everybody else, both good and bad.

    I personally believe that there are more than two resurrections, as Scripture says "first" resurrection, but never says "second" resurrection.  It appears that some are resurrected to be led by satan, and some are resurrected at the Judgement Day when hell gave up its dead.  That's at least two, and then we have to add in the first resurrection, making at least three.

    Once again I must stress that the modern-day use of the word "resurrection" causes confusion in this Scripture.  To our modern church thinking, "resurrection" means "made it, saved in Heaven forever."  However, that is not the case at all.  Many shall be resurrected only to be cast into the Lake of Fire.

    Resurrect means to live again, nothing more.

    Also causing much confusion is the word "hell."  "Hell" in the Bible means the grave.  The Lake of Fire is what we commonly think hell to be—the final depository of the damned.  You will notice in Rev 20, after Judgement Day, hell itself is also cast into the Lake of Fire.  So, logically, hell can't be the final end; for, the Lake of Fire comes after.

Revelation 20:12-15
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.  KJV

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Surgical birth control

 

A reader writes:

hi, my name is [Xxxxx] and me and my DH ["Dear Husband"?]  [Xxxxx] have been married as of this coming [Xxxxx] will be 15 years.  We have [X] beautiful children [X] boys and [X] girl ..I had a tubal ligation done during my c-section with having my last child and now after 2 years i know it was God that has put it on my heart to have it corrected so now i'm on a waiting list to have a Tubal Reversal done so that i can put my fertility back into Gods hands and not in mine...well my DH [Xxxxx] says that he doesn't want anymore children i have prayed that God change his mind well what i'm looking for is where it really says in the bible about letting god be incontrol of your family and not us...i'm trying really hard to do what god has asked me to do but my DH wants to see it in writing from the bible about it he thinks its not really true just because it says be fruitful and mutiliply he thinks that we have been fruitful and mutilitplied we have gotten into arguements over this so i'm asking for your help with this...thanks for everything...god bless

[Xxxxx]


Answer:

 

Hello Mrs. [Xxxxx].  Hmmm.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that [Xxxxx] wants to hear the pitter-patter of little feet running around the house again.

    I see several problems regarding your current situation.  But first let's go the Scriptures.  There is nothing in the Bible against contraception.  The only instance that some would offer is in Genesis 38.  But a careful read, paying close attention to context, reveals that Onan was punished for not raising up seed to his deceased brother, NOT for practicing the withdrawal method of birth control.

A little history on "raising up seed"

    In the Old Testament there was an edict that if a married man died before impregnating his wife, then his brother, the next oldest brother, was to impregnate his deceased brother's wife so that she would bare (hopefully) a son and thus the dead brother would have heirs and ever a name in Israel.  We shall be examining this from the book of Genesis, but the book of Ruth also occupies itself around this concept somewhat.

    Bearing that in mind, observe below E'rs (the deceased man) brother Onan as he has sex with Er's widow (as by Biblical formula); HOWEVER, he withdraws from her before completing the act of impregnating her.  In other words, he used her sexually, then pulled out of her before he "completed" the act, and spew his seed (semen) on the ground instead of in Tamar.  God killed Onan for this act; because, by not getting her pregnant (or, by purposely not impregnating her, better stated), which was the only reason that he was allowed sexual access to the widow, he used her like a whore.  Now, this woman was in the seedline of Jesus Christ.  It is unnecessary to further explain why God became so angry with Onan for this.  Observe the Scripture below:  (PS:  I just love these holier-than-thou church biddies that act like there isn't sex in the Bible.  There are many mentions of sex in the Bible, after all, it is a chronicle of a seedline, Adam to Christ; the first 'birth' being non-sexual (Adam) and the last birth being non-sexual (Jesus), but everywhere in between these children were sired the old fashioned way.)  You get the point).

    That point being that sex within a committed relationship is not a sin, it is a duty, albeit an enjoyable one (today, by custom we marry in a church and receive a legal document of marriage from the state), but in the beginning they "married" in the tent, and became man and wife at the moment of sexual intercourse (witnessed by Isaac and Rebekah's marriage: "And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death." Gen 24:67; but by Jesus' time, as witnessed by the events surrounding His first miracle of turning water to wine at the wedding feast of Cana (John 2), we see that Israel had evolved a structured wedding ceremony, replete with an engagement period, as witnessed by Mother Mary and Joseph's engagement (betrothal), seen in: "Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. . . . And [Joseph] knew her not [no intercourse] till [until after] she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS." (Mat 1:18-25).  Anyway, observe the Scripture, and notice that it is not in any intended to be an admonition against birth control generally:

Genesis 38:6-10
6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.
7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.
8 And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother's wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.
9 And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
10 And the thing which he did displeased the LORD: wherefore he slew him also.  KJV

Surgical sterilization as birth control

    Another matter that touches on your situation is that of surgery; in your case sterilization surgery.  The Bible is mute on surgery and advanced medical developments.  Certainly God foresaw that we would make advances in medicine and surgery, and had He found any problem with it, He would have mentioned the matter in Scripture.  He did not mention surgery in the Bible.  Therefore, it cannot be said that surgery is against God or His Bible.

    Regarding sterilization.  This is a slightly different matter.  This form of "surgery" is mentioned in the Bible, but not in regards to females.  I speak of the eunuchs (castrated males).  Castration was used in several situations; one being, the harem guards and servants.  The personal male attendants of the king's harem and wives was always a castrated male (a eunuch).  Castration of a male interferes with his sex drive; thus, the king could at once have a strong guard for his females (wives, concubines, daughters, etc.) but also have one that he could trust.

    I will give two instances from the Bible regarding the making of a eunuch (but please understand that this has nothing to do with you, as you are a female).  In the first Scripture below we see that eunuchs could not enter into the congregation of the Lord, because they were defiled by their castration.  In the second, in the New Testament, we shall see that the term "eunuch" is used more broadly to include those who abstain from sex, but are not castrated, and are not held in low esteem.

Observe the first (from the Old Testament):

Deuteronomy 23:1-3
23:1 He that is wounded in the stones
[testicles], or hath his privy member [penis] cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
2 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
3 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:  KJV

    But, I hasten to add, that God had mercy later-on in Scripture for these eunuchs, and they were allowed in through obedience to God's laws and statuettes (I mention this so that men who have already sterilized themselves don't get nervous):

Isaiah 56:1-8
56:1 Thus saith the LORD, Keep ye judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
2 Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
3 Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a dry tree.
4 For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
5 Even unto them will I
[God] give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I [God] will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
6 Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
7 Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people.
8 The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.  KJV

And the second, from the New Testament:

Matthew 19:7-12
7 They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?
8 He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
9 And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and whoso marrieth her which is put away doth commit adultery.
10 His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.
11 But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.
12 For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb
[born sterile, impotent]: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men [castrated]: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake [willful abstainers, like apostle Paul was]. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.  KJV

    Once again, none of this applies to you, since you are a female.  Females are under the strict rule of no sex except with their husbands.  Period.  How are "today's women" measuring up?  Satan's minions have deluded them.  But I'm not going to long be talking about the International Judaics in this article.  I speak too much about them as it is.  Just know and understand and observe that they are both your enemy, Jesus Christ's enemy, and the enemy of God, and are the foundation of every vile practice and movement in the world.  Enough said.  Satan has his own cadre—just as God and Christ has His own cadre of faithful servants.  This shall all flesh-out in the Tribulation when satan's defiles God's.

Regarding eunuchs and the Kingdom of God

Acts 8:36-38
36 And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
37 And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
38 And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch ; and he baptized him.  KJV

    So we see that sterilized males today are not damned.  Would I personally get sterilized?  No, I am a male, and I know from Scripture that a man's seed is a very important part of himself.  Would I let me wife (if I were married) get sterilized?  I would leave that up to her, I wouldn't try to interfere one way or the other.  But either way, I would want her to be on some (non-abortive) contraception until and unless I wanted children by her.

    These matters are personal family decisions.  But the Bible does not forbid the practice.  Of course, it is one thing for a married woman to practice contraception with her husband because they don't want any more kids, and it is a far another thing for a single woman to do it so that she can wantonly screw around with all these different guys and not bear any consequences (children).  That is a Judgement that God shall make on Judgement Day.  I am not judging women, but the Bible does speak very lowly of whores.  Much worse of adulteresses.  But forgiveness is always possible for the Christian.  Do repent if you feel that you have sinned and let-down God.  I will speak no more on the matter.  You have the Scriptures, therein is your answer.

    Peace to you in Christ Jesus.
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A reader objects to statement that "smoking dope" and masturbating is not a sin in the Bible

 

A (new?) reader writes:

anyone who claims to be a teacher of GODS word does NOT tell people its okay to masterbate or to smoke dope. thankyou.


Answer:

Hello.  I know that you meant this well, and that you feel that I am incorrect; and that you are just doing your Christian duty to correct a brother whom you think to be in error.  It is in that spirit that I accept your above criticism.  May I point out that I didn't say that it was "okay," I said that it wasn't a sin.  There is a difference, you know?  Actually, "smoking dope" is against the law, and as Paul stated in Romans 13, we are to obey the laws of our land.  So, that while it isn't a sin, per se, it is still wrong.  And just for the record, I do not smoke dope or take any illegal drugs.

    So, since you have taken it upon yourself to enter this fray, would you be so kind as to help our readers by producing the pertinent Scriptures from God's Bible that state that either smoking dope or masturbating is a sin?

    Thank you, you will helping so many out with your illumination of these subjects.

    I shall date the time of this request of mine for Biblical documentation from you, should you tarry, or as I suspect, come up empty.  Sent to you September 8th, 2006, early PM hours.  [No answer as of Oct 15, 2006] 

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A (one-time???) Catholic reader writes:
 

Subject: Hail Mary, Full of Grace

You poor deluded litle Protestants.


Answer:

Hello.  First let me state that I believe that Catholics are Christians, they believe upon Jesus Christ and fill the "minimum requirement" of the below (for want of a better way to term it).

John 3:16-18
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.  KJV

    As I perceive that you happened upon us here via Search Engine or perhaps by a reference from another Christian on some Internet Talk Forum, please allow me to state aforehand by way of introduction that we here at Watchmen Bible Study Group are a non-denominational Bible believing Christian Bible study group.  And while I cannot speak for all here who are members of WBSG, I can say that that is how I set it up.  And one simply becomes a member of WBSG when he/she reads here regularly and signs up for the e-mail alerts (mailing list). 

    Other than that we have no common protocol or traditions.  We are not a sect or a denomination or anything else like that—certainly not a cult or subgroup—we are just a Christian Bible study group.  A gathering of Christians who opened the Book and believed God, who believe the Bible to be His written Word, and believe upon the Holy Son of God, Jesus Christ, as our Savior.  And through the Holy Spirit of God we endeavor to learn His Word as He meant it.  Many members here have churches in their hometowns that they regularly attend.  And that is fine and that is good.  I am not against church, I believe that Christians ought to fellowship and praise God together, I am not against any Christian church that tries her best at fidelity to Scripture.

    Most here are what you would consider "of the 'Protestant' branches of Christianity" (where three divisions are recognized as the Catholic, the Orthodox, and the Protestant branches of Christianity).   Many who study here have been disillusioned by organized Christian denominations and have determined to go right to the source—God's written Word, the Bible, for their answers and their fellowship.  After all, every Christian denomination started at the Bible, but then most added-on their own traditions, quite apart from anything found between the covers of any Bible.  We have Catholics who visit here, and even Jews and some Muslims as well.  How long they stay, I cannot tell.  I hope that they do not leave, but rather that they become Christians.  My name is Nick Goggin, by the way; and I am the editor of Watchmen Bible Study Group; I write the Bible studies that you read here and answer the questions that come in.  This Bible study group is not affiliated with any denomination, we are affiliated with the Bible alone.  And where churches agree with that Holy Bible, we too shall agree with those several churches; however, where any church strays from that written Word of God, we too must part company with them, in love, but never saltless nor lukewarm.  It is because of that final line that we ruffle a few feathers along the way, like we undoubtedly have ruffled yours.  What I am trying to say is that we are not your enemy, nor do we hate you.   

     Now I know that you wrote the above mail to us because you are angry at us.  So I shall be the bigger man and not return anger to your anger; preferring rather, to remember our Lord's words spoken through that wisest of all men, king Solomon:  "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger." (Prov 15:1).  I will instead speak to you of the Scriptures, in brotherly love.  Nevertheless, while I shall be civil with you, I will not water-down the Gospel to win your friendship.  To do so would endanger me in the Lord, to draw His ire.  I will not be that for anybody.

    And while I know that some non-Catholic Christians can be quite harsh to Catholic Christians, we should both remember that at the end of the day we are brethren in the Lord Jesus Christ.  Some non-Catholic Christians (loosely lumped together and all called "protestants" by Catholics) think that the Catholic Church is "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." from Rev 17:5.  They feel that the Roman Catholic Church is the beast of Rev 13:1 — "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy."  But that is because they do not understand the prophecies.  Catholic Christians likewise think that "Protestants" (all non-Catholics who yet believe in Jesus Christ) are back-slidden and fallen away from what they (Catholics) think is the only true church of Jesus Christ (Catholicism).  But that is because they do not understand the Scriptures; and this because their church does not encourage the reading of the Bible.

    I have the right to speak of the Catholic Church and her teachings, and I may speak with authority on the matter; for, aside from much study and research on the Catholic Church and her doctrine, I was also myself "born a Catholic," or, born into a Catholic family, better stated.  In my youth I went exclusively to Catholic churches, I obediently went to Catholic Catechism classes, was sprinkled with water as an infant into the Catholic Baptism (later I was Baptized into Jesus Christ, by my own choice and preference—fully immersed by a non-denominational Christian), I was "Confirmed" in the Catholic church, I went to the Catholic Confession and confessed my sins to the man in the booth, I lit candles for the dead, I stood in awe and reverence as the priest wafted incense to statues of Mother Mary which men bore upon their shoulders as they carried "her" up the isle of the church, I watched the women cast roses at the feet of statues of Mother Mary, I dipped "holy water" with my finger and marked my forehead and heart and right & left shoulder, I bowed and kneeled towards the Altar at the head of the church before I took my seat in the pew,  I called the priests "Father," I took the Catholic Communion wafer that they said was the LITERAL flesh of Jesus Christ, at weddings I drank of the Catholic Communion Cup which they told me had BECOME the LITERAL blood of Jesus Christ—I was for all intents and purposes a Catholic.

    I was a Catholic—that is—until I read my Bible and discovered that so much of what I had been taught to do by the Catholic institution was an affront to God, and was a grave sin.  I was shocked!  I did not realize what wrong I was doing—I had been deceived from my youth by the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church.  All those things I am now ashamed of doing; and now, knowing the magnitude of the error, I even shudder to think that I had once done them.  Nevertheless, I know that I have been forgiven of it by Jesus Christ, because I have repented to God in Jesus' name for having been involved in those idolatrous practices.  And any way you slice it—it was and is overt and blatant idolatry!  Let all Catholic lips be still, let no Catholic dare stand up and deny it.  Lest their sin go from the unwitting category to the act of willingly and defiantly sinning in their own very houses of worship.

    But even with all of that I was probably what you Catholics call "not a good Catholic"; i.e., I did not follow the edicts and teachings of the Catholic Church Universal.  Sure I did the above things, but I did them as protocol, mechanically; or rather, I did them because that is what everybody else in the church was doing.  I did not recognize the primacy of the Pope; I did not attribute to Mother Mary extra-human attributes; I did not pray to dead men made saints by other men; and I never felt right confessing my sins to a man who was just as fallible as I, and who could never take away my sins (the priest).  And I will unapologetically state that I know more about the Roman Catholic Church and her doctrines and dogmas than do most practicing devote Catholics—and certainly more about the Bible than bishops and popes.  I say this not to boast; but rather, to set my credentials as we move into this subject.  Should any choose to challenge my knowledge of this subject—let him challenge me here and now.

    Also, living in Chicago I have the advantage of knowing many Catholics personally (family members, even); I can drive one mile in a circle here and pass by probably ten or so Catholic churches and institutions, as Chicago is a very large center for the Catholic faith.  In fact, here in Chicago we have a subdivision that we use, kind of like in other cities where they would use neighborhoods or communities—that being "parishes."  Chicago is informally divided up into areas called "parishes," that meaning the boundaries of the nearest Catholic church.  We have here in Chicago a very substantial Hispanic and Polish population, both of whom are traditionally very Catholic (though, of late, the Pentecostal and Mormon (LDS) churches are making some headway into conversion of the Hispanic populous).    Not to mention our Irish, German, and other European communities which are also substantially Catholic here in Chicago.  Many Koreans and other Asiatic groups living here also have a large Catholic contingent.  Chicago truly is a "melting pot" of peoples, and her predominant church is the Catholic Church.  The Catholic Church in Chicago is very large, popular, and powerful.  But many of my Christian brethren living in other parts of the country, particularly in the "Bible Belt," and maybe in the Pacific Northwest, have met few Catholics, and know little of their beliefs.

    Regarding Mother Mary, our Lord's blessed mother:  I respect her totally, she was undoubtedly a woman of the finest character.   She is the mother of my Lord Jesus Christ and a chosen daughter of our Heavenly Father, the Lord God Almighty.  I know from Scripture that she was ever to hold a place of high regard:

Luke 1:39-56
39 And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;
40 And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth.
41 And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe
[John the Baptist] leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:
42 And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
43 And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?
44 For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe
[John the Baptist] leaped in my womb for joy.
45 And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.
46 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord,
47 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
48 For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
49 For he that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is his name.
50 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
51 He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
52 He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
53 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
54 He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;
55 As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.
56 And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house.  KJV

    But Catholics take this too far, they inadvertently disrespect Mother Mary by making a sort of idol out of her—they shame her memory by doing that with her those things which they ought not do.  Surely she is in Heaven weeping at what the Catholic Church (and the Orthodox Churches) have done with her.  Poor Mary—after enduring all the emotional pain of seeing the Fruit of her womb hated and crucified so that all Christians may live eternal with God; then to see those same Christians make an idol and a false god out of her memory—poor Mary.

    I know that the "everyday average Catholic" in the pew does not mean to do this, and that they would be the first to deny that they "worship" Mother Mary.  But they do worship her, all the while saying that they do not.  And as Apostle Peter understood the Israelites of his time, because he was one of them, and as he understood the Pharisees and Sanhedrin who ruled over them religiously; may I too understand the Christians of my time, because I too am one of them, and may we also understand the Catholic Church and the Vatican who rules over so many Christians; and then may we be permitted to say along with Peter: "And now, brethren, I wot [know] that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers." (Acts 3:17).

    I also know that the leadership of the Catholic Church used Mother Mary to subject the people, to heel them to the Catholic Church by supposedly "owning her" and her memory.  Dispensing also Heaven as though they owned it as well.  And all the other things that she does in error and in direct conflict with the Holy Scriptures.  The listing of which would fill not a small book.

     So Catholic brethren out there reading this, consider the above my confession, my testimony, my mia culpa; and now after having introduced myself and hopefully allaying any fears that you might have of me being "anti-Catholic" or a "Catholic hater," or—God forbid—a disrespector of Mother Mary (!!!), may we proceed to the Scriptures of the Holy Bible which I know that you trust, and that I know that you will be humbled by, and would have been changed by had you only have been shown them?  And I will do something special here for you, along with publishing the Scriptures in the trusted King James version Bible1, I shall also, in parallel fashion, post the exact same Scriptures from a common modern day  "Catholic Bible."  I shall be supply Scripture from the widely used (by modern Catholics) New American Standard Bible version.

Footnote: 1 For why I refer to the King James Bible version as the "trusted King
James Bible," see our: Adulterations in the Newer Bible Versions (NIV, NASB...);
Proof that the King James Bible (KJV) is the True Word of God
.

    I know that we are to respect Mother Mary.  And that she is blessed of God forever:

King James version Bible New American Standard Bible version
Luke 1:48
48 For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.  KJV
Luke 1:48
48 "For He has had regard for the humble state of His bondslave;
For behold, from this time on all generations will count me blessed.  NASB

    But the Catholics go so far as to assign to her supernatural attributes.  They say that she can aid in the forgiving of sin, they say that she can intercede miraculously, and they say that she lived her whole life without committing even one sin.  Which is something that Jesus Christ alone accomplished, I would add.  But I know from God's Word that all of mankind sins, even the best of them:

King James version Bible New American Standard Bible version
Romans 3:23
23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;  KJV

1 John 1:8-10
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10 If we say that we have not sinned , we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.  KJV

Romans 3:22-23
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,  NASB

1 John 1:8-10
8 If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.  NASB

     Catholics rear-up statues and images of Mother Mary and those that they refer to as "saints."  And they kneel before these images and icons.  They bow to them, they pray to them, they reverence them as though they were some holy object from Heaven.  But I know that God forbids any such activity.  Below is the Second Commandment of the Ten Commandments (observe the subtle [highlighted] change in the Catholic Bible which "allows" them to bow down to these things all the while claiming not to worship it):

King James version Bible New American Standard Bible version
Exodus 20:4-6
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.  KJV
Exodus 20:4-6
4 "You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. 5 You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 6 but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.  NASB
 

    Catholics pray to the dead, they pray to dead "saints" and to the deceased Mother Mary.  They even save the bones and hair of these dead "saints" (called Relics) and place them in glass cases and pray to them in their churches.  But God said that we are not to consort with the dead:

King James version Bible American Standard Bible version
Deuteronomy 18:10-12
10 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,
11 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.
12 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee.  KJV
Deuteronomy 18:10-12
10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12 For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD; and because of these detestable things the LORD your God will drive them out before you.  NASB

    Now, Catholics will say "we aren't 'calling them up,' we are just talking to these dead people, and asking them to intercede for us." The irony is obvious.  And regarding "intercession," the Catholics say that Mother Mary and the other dead "saints" can intercede for them.  For instance, you have the dead "Saint Jude" who Catholics call "the patron saint of lost causes."   Below is a Catholic Novena to their Saint Jude:

Novena to Saint Jude

To Saint Jude, Holy Saint Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need. To you I have recourse from the depths of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition, in return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked. Saint Jude pray for us and all who invoke your aid. Amen.

Say 3 Our Father's, 3 Hail Mary's and 3 Glory Be's.
  —
Source: http://www.catholic-forum.com/SAINTS/novena09.htm

    Below is a prayer that Catholic pray to the deceased mother Mary asking her for intercession:

Hail Mary (Ave Maria)

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, and in the hour of our death. Amen. — Source: http://www.catholic-forum.com/SAINTS/pray0033.htm

    But the Holy Bible speaks quite differently, which is why till a couple of hundred years ago the Bible itself was on the Index Of Forbidden Books in the Catholic Church:

1 Timothy 2:5
5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;  KJV

     The Catholic Catechism (the official teachings of the Catholic Church) states the below blasphemy about  Mother Mary:

Catechism of the Catholic Church

#969 "This motherhood of Mary in the order of grace continues uninterruptedly from the consent which she loyally gave at the Annunciation and which she sustained without wavering beneath the cross, until the eternal fulfillment of all the elect. Taken up to heaven she did not lay aside this saving office but by her manifold intercession continues to bring us the gifts of eternal salvation. . . . Therefore the Blessed Virgin is invoked in the Church under the titles of Advocate, Helper, Benefactress, and Mediatrix."  ― Source: The Catechism of the Catholic Church [electronic version of the book]. (Official permission by the Catholic Church of this text version granted by Amministrazione Del Patrimonio Della Sede Apostolica, case number 130389.)   Catechism #969 source: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/969.htm

    Further comment is superlative.  And what about the incense wafting that we see the Catholic priests doing to the icons (idols) of Mother Mary during Mass?

PICTURE: Pope John Paul II offering incense from an incense burner to a graven image of the Mother Mary (top right of picture), the Catholic 'Queen of Heaven', in direct violation of Almighty God's Word in the book of Jeremiah (see Scriptures below). Photo taken on May 13th 1991, as the Pope was thanking 'Our Lady of Fatima' (Mother Mary) for saving his life on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the assassination attempt upon him.
       — Source; https://watchman.news/watchman-bs-site-arcv/mary.htm

PICTURE: A Catholic Cardinal offers incense from an Incense Burner to a statue (image) of a Saint. But God's Word forbids any such activity.

Deut 4:16
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female (KJV)
Hosea 11:2
2 As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images. (KJV)
      — Source; https://watchman.news/watchman-bs-site-arcv/mary.htm

Notice how the Catholic's Bible corrupts the text to allow for their incense practices:

King James version Bible American Standard Bible version
Jeremiah 44:25-29
25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
26 Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.
27 Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
28 Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
29 And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:  KJV
Jeremiah 44:25-29
25 thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, as follows:' As for you and your wives, you have spoken with your mouths and fulfilled it with your hands, saying, "We will certainly perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn sacrifices to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her." Go ahead and confirm your vows, and certainly perform your vows! ' 26 "Nevertheless hear the word of the LORD, all Judah who are living in the land of Egypt, 'Behold, I have sworn by My great name,' says the LORD, 'never shall My name be invoked again by the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying," As the Lord GOD lives. " 27'Behold, I am watching over them for harm and not for good, and all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will meet their end by the sword and by famine until they are completely gone. 28'And those who escape the sword will return out of the land of Egypt to the land of Judah few in number. Then all the remnant of Judah who have gone to the land of Egypt to reside there will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs. 29'And this will be the sign to you,' declares the LORD,' that I am going to punish you in this place, so that you may know that My words will surely stand against you for harm.'  NASB

Is Mary the Catholic's "Queen of heaven"?

Catechism of the Catholic Church

966 "Finally the Immaculate Virgin, preserved free from all stain of original sin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, and exalted by the Lord as Queen over all things, so that she might be the more fully conformed to her Son, the Lord of lords and conqueror of sin and death." The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin is a singular participation in her Son's Resurrection and an anticipation of the resurrection of other Christians: ― Source: The Catechism of the Catholic Church [electronic version of the book]. (Official permission by the Catholic Church of this text version granted by Amministrazione Del Patrimonio Della Sede Apostolica, case number 130389.)   Catechism #966 source: http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/966.htm

    Catholics also say that Mary was perpetually (for ever) a virgin, even after the birth of Jesus (Catechism 499-500) - Even though the Bible speaks of four other sons (and according to Bullinger) "at least three" daughters born to Mary and Joseph after the virgin birth of our Messiah Jesus Christ.

Catechism of the Catholic Church

499 The deepening of faith in the virginal motherhood led the Church to confess Mary's real and perpetual virginity even in the act of giving birth to the Son of God made man. In fact, Christ's birth "did not diminish his mother's virginal integrity but sanctified it." And so the liturgy of the Church celebrates Mary as Aeiparthenos, the "Ever-virgin". — http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/499.htm

500 Against this doctrine the objection is sometimes raised that the Bible mentions brothers and sisters of Jesus. The Church has always understood these passages as not referring to other children of the Virgin Mary. In fact James and Joseph, "brothers of Jesus", are the sons of another Mary, a disciple of Christ, whom St. Matthew significantly calls "the other Mary". They are close relations of Jesus, according to an Old Testament expression. http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/500.htm

    In #500 above, the Catholic Church tries to answer away their obvious earlier error with an excuse.  But a full read of the Scripture that the Catholic Church referred to clears the air perfectly.  Jesus had (step) brothers and (step) sisters.  This is indisputable by an in-context read of the below Scriptures.  Note:  the "James" and "Jude" referred to below are the authors of the books baring their name in the Bible.  Also, neither this James nor this Jude were among the original Twelve Apostles.

Mark 6:1-4
6:1 And he went out from thence, and came into his own country; and his disciples follow him.
2 And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?
3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda
[Jude], and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
4 But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.  KJV

Galatians 1:18-19
18 Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.
19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save James the Lord's brother.  KJV

Jude 1
1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:  KJV

1 Corinthians 9:5
5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
[surname of Peter]  KJV

Matthew 12:46-50
46 While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.
47 Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
48 But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
49 And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.  KJV

Acts 1:13-14
13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.  KJV

John 2:11-12
11 This beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee, and manifested forth his glory; and his disciples believed on him.
12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.  KJV

King James version Bible New American Standard Bible version
Matthew 1:24-25
24 Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
25 And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.  KJV
Matthew 1:23-25
24 And Joseph arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took her as his wife, 25 and kept her a virgin until she gave birth to a Son;
and he called His name Jesus.  NASB

  In conclusion:  In the below, the now deceased Pope Paul II blasphemes as he prays to the deceased Mary, calling HER the "Temple of the Most Holy Trinity."

"Hail, O Daughter of God the Father,
Hail, O Mother of the Son of God,
Hail, O Bride of the Holy Spirit,
Temple of the Most Holy Trinity.
Amen."

- Pope John Paul II; Address at Blessing of Marian Shrine:
Poland, Monday, 7 June 1999

   This is the evil spirit that has invaded the Catholic Church universal!  In all cults and false religions there comes a time when they drift toward the worship of the feminine, feminine deities, the feminine sexual form, etc.  We see that happening openly in the New Age Movement/New Age Religions.  Eventually the worship of the feminine force devolves into sexual "sacred orgies," as Israel of old did in their "grove worship" which God so strongly rebuked them of.  "Grove" in the Old Testament is Asherah, which was a tree or stock fashioned into the image of the erect male sexual organ.  This then was worshipped, and sexual orgies took place under it.  Bullinger has an appendix on this in his Companion Bible. 

    Jerusalem in times past had "Temple Prostitutes," who were high priestesses who played the part of prostitutes in the Temple of God at Jerusalem (no wonder God had it leveled).  Much of this debauchery is preserved in Talmudic Judaism and Cabbalism (Kabbalah), though hidden from the majority of "Jews" because over 50% of "Jews" are Atheist ("Secular Jews," more Politically Correctly stated).  And the majority of the "believing" layman Jews do not read Judaism's most sacred texts, the Talmud, and haven't the slightest knowledge of the Kabbalah—two books that are lifeblood and provide the spirit of their religion Judaism, though "the lesser brethren" Jews be wholly ignorant to it.

     What spiritually corrupt people do is that they take the male penis and attribute to it life-giving force.  It then becomes an idol, eventually a god.  This cycle has happened too many time to count in the past.  It is called Phallic Worship in modern times.  The Catholic Church is just exhibiting the early signs of this degeneration into perverted worship.  But within the Catholic Church we do see other signs of this free-fall.  That being the systemic homosexual pedophilia of the priestly class.  The "sex scandal" (if you can call child-rape by priests a mere "sex scandal") within the Catholic priest's ranks goes all the way up to the top, and was sanctioned and condoned for God knows how many centuries.  "They" got caught (or got called on it, better stated) recently because the Catholic Church has lost most of her power.  Being now only a parody of her former self.  Thus fulfilling the plan in the Protocols of The Learned Elders of Zion  (no, no, no; that document is not an "AntiSemitic forgery"!  The forgery story was just a cover to conceal a compromised document).  I document this UNDISPUTEDLY in my upcoming book.  Below is a portion of one of the Protocols detailing the International Judaics plan, as early as 1897, to destroy the Roman Catholic Church, which at that time was the largest and most powerful Christian body on planet Earth.  Now look at her! Since then the International Judaics have infiltrated and wrested control of all other branches of Christianity.  The end of the Christian church is nigh, and her inhabitants don't even see it coming, just like Jehovah'ism (Yehovah'ism) [the O.T. Hebrew's religion] didn't see it coming in the first century A.D.  I shall cover this IN-DEPTH in my upcoming book.  Below is the 2nd through 6th paragraph of the seventeen Protocol of the Protocols of The Learned Elders of Zion.  Bracketed [text] mine: 

PROTOCOL No. 17

...[WE SHALL DESTROY THE CLERGY]

[¶ 2]. WE [the International Judaics] HAVE LONG PAST TAKEN CARE TO DISCREDIT THE PRIESTHOOD OF THE "GOYIM," and thereby to ruin their mission on earth which in these days might still be a great hindrance to us. Day by day its influence on the peoples of the world is falling lower. FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE [Liberalism, egalitarianism; since the French Revolution] HAS BEEN DECLARED EVERYWHERE, SO THAT NOW ONLY YEARS DIVIDE US FROM THE MOMENT OF THE COMPLETE WRECKING OF THAT CHRISTIAN RELIGION: as to other religions we shall have still less difficulty in dealing with them, but it would be premature to speak of this now. We shall set clericalism and clericals into such narrow frames as to make their influence move in retrogressive proportion to its former progress.

[¶ 3.] When the time comes finally to destroy the papal court [the Catholic Church] the finger of an invisible hand will point the nations towards this court [their religion—"Antichristianity"]. When, however, the nations fling themselves upon it, we shall come forward in the guise of its defenders as if to save excessive bloodshed. By this diversion we shall penetrate to its very bowels and be sure we shall never come out again until we have gnawed through the entire strength of this place.

[¶ 4.] THE KING OF THE JEWS WILL BE THE REAL POPE OF THE UNIVERSE [the antichrist/satan], THE PATRIARCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL CHURCH

[¶ 5.] But, IN THE MEANTIME, while we are re-educating youth in new traditional religions and afterwards in ours ["Antichristianity"], WE SHALL NOT OVERTLY [openly, observably; i.e., in secret] LAY A FINGER ON EXISTING CHURCHES, BUT WE SHALL FIGHT AGAINST THEM BY CRITICISM CALCULATED TO PRODUCE SCHISM [divisions—divide and conquer; which is exactly what is happening in this present Q&A between a Catholic and a non-denominational Christian] . . .

[¶ 6.] In general, then, our contemporary press will continue to CONVICT State affairs, religions, incapacities of the GOYIM, always using the most unprincipled expressions in order by every means to lower their prestige in the manner which can only be practiced by the genius of our gifted tribe . . .   

—Source: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, excerpt of "Protocol No. 7." Delivered by speech in 1897, but published in 1905 (The Protocols of…Zion were the minutes of the First Zionist Congress held at Basle, Switzerland, in 1897, under the presidency of the "father of Modern Zionism," the late Theodore Herzl.) A copy of the Protocols of…Zion is in the British Museum bearing the date of its reception, August 10, 1906.  On-Line source: https://watchman.news/watchman-bs-site-arcv/plez.htm 

Twenty Jewish Popes (by 1925), and The Inquisition

“Mrs. Van Hyning, I am surprised at your surprise. You are a student of history and you know that both the Borgias and the Mediciis are Jewish families of Italy. Surely you know that there have been Popes from both of these houses. Perhaps it will surprise you to know that we have had 20 Jewish Popes, and when you have sufficient time, which may coincide with my free time, I can show you these names and dates. You will learn from these that: The crimes committed in the name of the Catholic Church were under Jewish Popes. The leade[r] of the Inquisition was one, [Tomás] de Torquemada, a Jew. [1]


[1] Women’s Voice,  Nov 25, 1953.  As quoted in The Coming Storm Called The Great Tribulation by Nick Goggin (not yet published—due out on Dec, 16, 2007).

    Understanding that the Judaics have controlled absolutely the Catholic Church Universal for more centuries than I am now at liberty to establish, due to time's sake, goes a long way in understanding her suicidal policies.  (allegations of "AntiSemitism" in the church are strawmen and bogeys.  Same as the falsified "AntiSemitism" in Russia, which the Int. Judaics are absolute masters of as well, and have been since 1917ff.)  It also explains the infamous Inquisitions of the Dark Ages, in which the Catholic Church burned, tortured, and tore more Christians than pagan Rome ever did.  The Inquisitions were run by crypto-Jews within the Catholic priest ranks (see textbox at right, excerpted from my upcoming book).  It also explains why at Vatican II, in the early 1960's, the first order of business was to "exonerate the 'Jews' of the murder of Jesus Christ."  I also document this and more in my upcoming book.  Also, several Catholic "Saints" were "un-Sainted" because they were made Saints for their being killed (Martyred) by the Jews in their Ritual Murder practice for Purim and Passover blood sacrifice, and kneaded into their cakes ("Haman's Ears," etc.)—unbeknownst to greater Jewry.  See our free E-book on this, as I know that it no doubt sounds surreal to you, because you have been purposely kept ignorant of it, for obvious reasons: Jewish Ritual Murder.  Anyway...

  See also our: Do Catholics Worship the Mother Mary? And if they do, is it against God's Word? from which some of the material in this Q & A was taken.

Peace to you in Christ Jesus.  Feel free to follow-up (Contact Editor).


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