Sometimes I go back and look at the old New Covenant Messengers and read articles that were written years ago. I did so last Saturday morning and immediately found three articles. I turned right to them. It was three articles written by our own Dan and Cory. It is in NCM #26.
The third article, written by Cory, was very interesting. It told of the origin of Valentine’s Day. Valentine was the Roman Catholic priest who defied the Emperor’s order to ban marriages; and as a result married many couples. The Roman Catholic Church merged the worship of Lupercalia and the death of the priest Valentine. Lupercalia was the she-wolf that nursed Romulus and Remus when they were orphaned. The two boys grew up and are credited with the founding of Rome.
In her second article, Cory said the following about why they were home schooling:
“As I said, that was seven or eight years ago and now our oldest [Hannah] is doing sixth and seventh grade work, our second daughter [Katie] is in third grade, our third daughter [Rebecca] is in second grade and we’re going to be starting kindergarten with our fourth daughter [Emily] in the fall Not to leave any one out, God has also given us a son [Abel] who will be two this month.”
That means that the NCM that I was reading was about 18 years old! My, how time flies.
But the first article that I saw was the article written by Dan titled: “Listen! When A Dumb Man Speaks.” It was an article that dealt with a favorite portion of scripture for Dan: Luke, Chapter One. I thought, “What a fine article. It needs to be done again so our people don’t forget what happened.”
The Addressee
Do you know who Luke wrote the book of Luke to; and not just this book but his next: the book of Acts? Theophilus. Who was he? All we know for sure is that he was a man “instructed” in the life of Christ. That is all.
I liked how Dan started out his article: “Several times in the Bible, God used strange or unusual events to precede the delivery of an important truth or prophecy.” Dan gave examples of what happened in several Bible stories: the talking mule; the hungry lions that did not eat Daniel; and the fish that swallowed Jonah. These events certainly set the stage for what was coming. But what Dan was alleging was the strange or unusual event that preceded the birth of our Savior. It was the birth of another Isaac!
There are three questions that could immediately be asked about today's scripture:
Whose commandments did they obey?
What is the Tree of life?
What gates did they have permission to enter in what city?
The Protestant Revolution was a political and religious revolution that was based on what was called the TULIP doctrines of the predestination of God:
Total Depravity,
Unconditional Election,
Limited Atonement,
Irresistible Grace,
Perseverance of the Believer or Eternal Security.
Both John Calvin and Martin Luther and many that followed taught that God chose a people; not as the modern church world believes: for they wrongly teach the opposite view--that people of all races choose God and become His people. This has paved the way for non-biblical multiculturism which is a dogma of humanism, the World Church and World Government!
Each of the four beasts and twenty-four elders who fell down before the Lamb had a harp. That would be 28 harps that were played as they sang their new song. In Revelation 14:2 there implies that there were 144,000 harps and in Revelation 15:2 an innumerable number of harps in heaven. If God allows this many harps in heaven then it should not be considered unheavenly to have musical instruments in churches.
This heavenly “choir” sang a new song about their Redeemer; but there is also a “good and evil” part about music. The genealogy of Cain is given in the fourth chapter of Genesis; with Cain, Enoch, Lamech, Jubal; the great-grandson of Cain; who was “the father [inventor and teacher of musical instruments] of all such as handle the harp and organ” (Genesis 4:21).
God Bless America
So, there are two kinds of music: good and evil. Which is which? The first song that we will look at is the song which many people are in favor of making it our new national anthem, replacing “Star Spangled Banner;” which many people feel is hard to sing. The song is “God Bless America.”
It was first sung on November 11, 1938 by Kate Smith. November 11th was the day that World War I ended; and was sung as part of the memory of this day. The song was first written in 1918 but was never used.
As America and the world approached the Second World War, a song was needed to help patriotism in the nation. Many singers looked for a new song. The song that was chosen was not used 20 years earlier but was brought back out of the song writer’s casted away songs; and with a few changed words was revamped. For example, the words “To the right” was changed “Thru the night.”
14) “For He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us;
15) Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in Himself of twain one new man, so making peace;….”
Brief Comment on the Vaccine Controversy
I feel that I need to bring this controversy up as the media has been just slamming everyone who did not vaccinate either themselves or their children; many calling them “conspiracy” advocates. Even Bill Cunningham, the Catholic local radio host argued for it. NBC news all agreed; with their medical specialist correspondent, Nancy Snyderman lambasting the anti-vaccine people, calling them “stupid.” Of course she is in trouble because she left the Ebola quarantine area and may lose her job. Do you think that this is why she spoke so strongly against the unvaccinated?
While the media continues to spew emotionally charged tirades about how the anti-vaccination “movement” allegedly triggered the recent measles outbreak that health authorities believe started at Disneyland, actual science suggests that the most likely cause of this insanely overblown outbreak was a person who was recently vaccinated.
Numerous published studies reveal how live-virus vaccines like MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) actually shed these diseases for many weeks or even months following vaccination, potentially infecting others, both vaccinated and unvaccinated. This means that any child who was recently given an MMR vaccine is a walking disease-spreader, a truth that the media is refusing to report as even just a possibility in this case.
The fact that vaccinated individuals can and do carry around contagious measles for many weeks while displaying no symptoms of the disease suggests that this latest outbreak might just be another example of a vaccine-strain outbreak. While a handful of the roughly 100 measles cases identified so far have tested out as wild genotype B3 measles, according to the latest reports, the original source of the outbreak has yet to be identified.
First, I would like to make a couple of comments about this Sunday’s climax to the National Football League’s championship game. The illuminati’s showcase game has a twice-as-long half-time show as regular games; about ½ hour. Today it will star Katy Perry, another illuminati performer.
For years, churches have battled with these Super Bowl Sunday championship games; mostly losing to them by having the lowest-attended services of the year. There is a “new” church in the area that has the largest crowds of the year on this date: Crossroads Church.
Today is the 13th year of Crossroads Super Bowl Sunday’s performances: Tailgating, inflatables, T-shirt launchers, cheerleaders, pickup trucks full of popcorn, marching bands, tickets (free), with dueling preachers who will be on the four campuses in the Cincinnati, Ohio area. The events includes 17 services beginning Saturday and running through Sunday afternoon. They already are expecting 41,000 this weekend and with television exposure and a story on the headline of the second section of the city’s newspaper, it will only grow larger.
It is similar to what Pope Francis remarked about the mission of Catholic schools: “Catholic education is one of the Church’s most important challenges, committed to carrying out the new evangelization in a historical and cultural context in constant transformation,” likening the modern world to Jesus’ mission field in the “Galilee of the gentiles: a CROSSROADS of people in diverse races, cultures and religions.” Now, where have I heard that word before…?
In today's scripture reading, God reveals that House of Judah (Benjamin, Levi and Judah) also committed the same sins as did the nation of the other ten tribes: the House of Israel. Many were the prophets God had sent to both nations of Israel in an attempt to turn them from their many sins. This was addressed to Israelites only. It was not addressed to any other nation or nations. It was a racial statement.
In the last days, the Bible says that men will have a distorted view of love. They will be lovers of themselves and lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God. Men will love the world.
“Do not love the world or the things of the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him, for all this is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life—is not of the Father, but of the world.” 1 John 2:15-16
“If the world hates you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you” John 15:18.
Rio De Janeiro
In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2016 is where the Olympic Games are scheduled to be held. The whole world will have their eyes on this site. We know that these universal games play a major part in the formation of the New World Order. Rio de Janeiro is where the huge statue of the false Jesus stands. The famous Christ the Redeemer statue suffered damage on its right thumb when it was hit by a furious lightning bolt last January, one year ago. Roman Catholics said that they will fix the thumb on this Jesuit statue.
There was also another lightning bolt strike that hit St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican on the same night that Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, stunning the world. In fact, there wasn’t just one, but two strikes a few hours apart. The lightning touched the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica, one of the holiest of all the Catholic churches.
The United Nations Peace Plaza in Independence, Missouri was unveiled on October 27, 1997, formally dedicated by United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan on April 25, 2003, and is described by its creators as “the only memorial in the world to those persons serving in the Peacekeeping Forces of the United Nations....” In the center of this fountain is a 12.5-foot statue named “Girl with Dove” by its sculptor Tom Corbin and in 2003, a four-foot miniature was gifted to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
Who is Tom Corbin? I saw the picture of the statue that he made for the United Nations in my Miami University Alumni magazine. Tom Corbin was a 1976 graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. At Miami, he studied drawing while majoring in marketing. He started out as an advertising executive until a chance meeting with a bronze sculptor led to classes and thoughts of an art career, which he began in 1986. He made the six statues of children for the Children Fountain in Kansas City. And he made the sculptor the stands atop the United Nations Peace Plaza’s fountain in Independence, Missouri.
This map shows the two cities where Jeroboam 1 built his false temples; one in the South, the other in the North. From the very beginning, the House of Israel did not worship their God correctly.
Let’s see what the opening Scriptures say about how the House of Israel began; The House of Israel had the:
Wrong King: Had a man who was not of the seed of David: Jeroboam was a king who was born from the seed of Ephraim (2 Kings 11:26). God ordained that all kings were to come from the family of David, of the lineage of Judah.
Wrong Priests: Jeroboam made priests of the lowest of the people: None were of Levi. God ordained that all His priests were go come from the line of Levi; no other tribe.
Wrong Temple: Jeroboam made two new temples; one in Bethel and the other in Dan. Inside each temple he put what he said were the “gods that brought you out of Egypt”: two golden calves. God had built His house in Jerusalem. His throne was in the inner court on the Ark of the Covenant.
Wrong feast days: Jeroboam made a feast that was similar to Judah’s but he celebrated it on the wrong month; the 8th instead of the 7th.
Wrong laws kept: Jeroboam kept a different set of laws than what God told them to do. In fact, it says that the kings of Israel all followed after the commandments of other gods, particularly Baalim.
The House of Israel experienced in 205 years: 19 kings; 9 dynasties; 7 assassinations; 1 suicide; 1 killed in battle; 1 died falling through a lattice and each new king was worse than his predecessor. There was not one good king in the whole bunch according to the Bible. The Old Testament refers to the kingship of Israel as all being disobedient to the Laws of God.
The Bible is the family history of the first man Adam. It gives the generations of the race that Adam and Eve were parents of: the White race. The first ten chapters tell of where they lived, what they did, how long they lived, the first sin that happened in the race, the first deception that occurred in the race, the first big failure of the race and the judgment against it.
The Bible tells us that the lives of our ancestors lived almost one thousand years (so much for evolution); but by the time of Noah practically the entire race had miscegenated. Noah, his wife, their three sons and their wives were they only pure-blooded White people who survived the first major battle of the world.
The Bible does not teach that Noah needed 120 years to build the Ark; or that there was 2 animals of every kind in the entire world that was placed in the Ark; or that the flood was a world-wide flood; or that the rain that occurred during Noah’s flood was the first rain that had occurred in the earth. The flood did drastically affect every part of the earth, but there was not waters over the mountains all over the earth.
The land split into; the seasons developed; earthquakes and volcanoes erupted; the two poles became ice filled; and it was a very scary time that happened. And when Noah got off the Ark after 1 year and 17 days; the world that then was; was over. The world that then was, ¼ of time on this earth from the first sin of Eve, was over. The Bible covers this time period in 10 chapters. The world that now is, began.
What kind of government did Israel operate under when they were freed from Egyptian slavery? Were they under a democracy? Monarchy? Dictatorship? Republic? No, there were under a form of government that no one else ever was under. The seed of the people who were recipients of the covenant made and swore to by God; were under a theocracy.
A theocracy was rule by God. God had made a covenant with Abraham, later confirmed this covenant with his son, Isaac, and then passed it on to Esau. But Esau despised the covenant and sold it to Jacob; the other of Isaac’s twin-sons. This is why many, many times in the Bible, God refers to Himself as being the “God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob” (Exodus 3:6, and many other places).It is nowhere written in the Bible, that God is the “God of Abraham, Isaac and Esau” although that is what most Christians believe! God wasn’t the king of the entire world; He was king of His people.
Why was Israel in Egypt in the first place? God, in his covenant, had said that His people were to go to a nation and serve them. The time that they were to be there was 215 years; 4 generations. The Canaanites, whose land they were promised, had not as yet fulfilled all of the evil that they were to do.
In the story of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, we have the magicians of Egypt duplicating three of the miracles from God that Moses proclaimed that He would do against the Egyptians. Many Christians are unaware that the magicians of Egypt could do some of the miracles that God could do:
Rods turned into serpents (Exodus 7:11-13)
Turning of the water to blood (Exodus 7:22)
Bringing up of frogs (Exodus 8:7)
In fact, if the Christians reads closely he will see that it just wasn’t just the magicians, but the wise men, sorcerers and the magicians that were called by Pharaoh (Exodus 7:11). What was the difference between them?
Wise men: men of learning; men who knew the occult arts.
Sorcerers: men who revealed hidden secrets; to uncover.
Magicians: men who were decipherers or interpreters of the hieroglyphic writings found in books containing magic formulas that belonged to the Pharaoh.
Exodus 7:11: “Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.”
Let’s recreate the scene in our mind: Aaron took his rod and cast it before Pharaoh and his servants and it became a serpent. Then Pharaoh called his wise men, sorcerers and magicians and they also threw their rods on the ground and they became serpents. So we have a tie: we have all of these serpents slithering on the ground: one serpent from Aaron’s rod and the other serpents from Pharaoh’s occult crowd. But it didn’t remain a tie; for Aaron’s rod (serpent) swallowed up their rods (serpents)! This proved that God’s power is greater than the power of the magicians.
But this also shows us that the occult does have some power. They can perform some of these miracles in like manner with their enchantments. The magicians, wise men and sorcerers in the future will bring down fire from heaven and do various kinds of miracles to deceive even the elect. Does this also include the healing of the sick?
We are near the ending of the 40 years of wandering of the children of Israel in the wilderness after their miraculous exodus from Egypt. It is almost time for them to cross the Jordan River and to do battle against the inhabitants of the Promised Land. They had already completely destroyed all of the Amorites who were living on the East portion of the Jordan River.
Israel was granted victories over King Sihon the Amorite (who is referred to as being the brother of King Og in other non-biblical sources) who had fought against the former King of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon River. Then they battled King Og, King of Bashan, who “was of the remnant of the giants” (Joshua 12:4b). Israel “…smote him and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land” (Numbers 21:35).
Part 1 The First Three Shepherds of Israel: Israel had a government that no other nation on the face of the earth ever had. It was known as a Theocracy. It was in existence for about 1400 years but Israel wanted another kind of government. They rejected God as their King so they could be like all the other nations.
Part 2 The Big Question: how many years was Israel under a theocracy? When did they switch to a Monarchy? The Bible tells a fantastic story of Israel's history. What is the major question that the average Christian doesn't even know? Find out when you read this sermon.
Part 3 The Books of the Bible: Ken Hamm equates "inter-racial" marriage with the marriage of a Christian with a non-Christian. What is wrong with this? And who were the people who plotted and attempted to kill Jesus Christ, according to the Bible?
