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by Pastor Mark Downey

Today’s Scripture reading is Ezekiel 13:16-23.  Ezekiel is talking about the smoke and mirrors of false prophets and their lying prophecies.  God puts these liars to shame through His divine judgment and making them the object of ridicule.  Shame on the political soothsayers and pundits who have been telling tall tales in recent weeks to the American people and the world.

I don’t know about you, but with each passing week I get the impression that there is an escalation in totalitarianism and a loss of control over our personal freedoms.  It’s just a continuous social erosion of one thing after another.  It’s like watching a train wreck in slow motion.  I’m just glad I’m not on that train.  I was going to title this message ‘Better Living Under Babylonian Bondage Through the Christian Faith’, but that was a bit wordy.  So I chose the often quipped cliché ‘Your papers please,’

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by Pastor Mark Downey

Isaiah 25 continues the thinking of the prophet from the previous reading in chapter 24, from Part 1 of this message, and that is: the foundations of the earth do shake (both physical and spiritual), and there shall be destruction and tribulation and if at first God does not get your attention, there’s more where that came from, and will come, until He is exalted gloriously, when God’s sovereignty confounds all religions and puts to shame the imperfect governments of man.  God can make a city a heap of rubble.  So too, when man desires to be like the Most High and flaunts his science to wipe a city off the face of the earth, we witness the mystery of iniquity i.e. man making himself God.

by Pastor Everett Ramsey

This is the last page of Pastor Ramsey’s monthly newsletter:

“Ephraim is settled in the United Kingdom isles, Greenland, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand and other isles. 

Manasseh is settled in the United States which is composed of all 12 tribes.  There are several pieces of data that would indicate that Central America and Canada may be the safe haven for His people during the last calamity.

by Pastor Mark Downey

The recent developments in Japan give us a whole new meaning to the phrase ‘movers and shakers of the world’.  It used to mean people who initiate actions and get things done, but with one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded, spawning a ferocious tsunami, killing thousands of people, my first thought was to put on my tin foil hat and consider whether or not this catastrophe was initiated by an act of God or the jewish conspiracy.  Either way, God is in control.  If God knows the beginning from the end, then everything that’s unfolding is predestined and that’s something comforting to know if you’re a Christian.  I have never had a gut feeling about an event having such prophetic overtones than what has happened in the last week. 

Most people would ask, “What jewish conspiracy?”  And I’d say, “The one they talk about all the time on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News.”  Of course I’m being facetious, just the opposite is true, because the media is owned by the jews and they’re not going to be talking about how they conspire and lie (or should I say the Big Lie?).  I happened to be up March 11th at 2am when the events in Japan became ‘breaking news’ and it was as compelling as 9/11 was. 

by Pastor Mark Downey

I read recently that scientists had discovered that goldfish had a memory retention of two seconds.  So you could imagine two goldfish in a bowl complete with castle and plants talking to each other.  First goldfish, “Look at that castle.”  Second goldfish, “What is a castle?”  First goldfish, “Why do you ask?”  Second goldfish, “Ask what?”  There are an increasing number of people like that in our society.  But, goldfish swim all their lives in that bowl and are unaware of the water they swim in.  Some people are completely oblivious to the intellectual and spiritual sea we swim in with all of the philosophical undercurrents and riptides.  That ocean of information has been spawned by mass media and various mediums of persuasion.  When Daniel (12:4) spoke of “an increase in knowledge”, he may have been alluding to an information overload.  Because of this saturation bombing of the mind, the world is in a state of confusion and chaos.  And this is by design to mold public opinion like putty. 

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