Homosexuality is slavery and idolatry

As the practice of homosexuality is clearly a sin according to Scriptures, then those who are engaged in such immoral activities are slaves to such sins. Furthermore, as it is a sin, it is something that some COVET, something God forbids, a forbidden fruit (so to speak), it is also IDOLATRY since those who choose to engage in such self-willed activities are placing their rebellious desires above the holy love and commandments of God:

Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry

1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.

I am a recovering homosexual and testify against its pagan practice, so help me God.

God and the Gays: To Be or Not to Be (Part 1)

God and the Gays: All that Glitters isn't Gold (Part 2)

God and the Gays: Once Gay, Always Gay? (Part 3)

God and the Gays: Of Vice and Men (Part 4)

God and the Gays: A Time to Heal (Part 5)

God and the Gays: Make Up Your Mind (Part 6)

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Does God Heal Today?
Straight Talk about David and Jonathan
Brokeback Mountain Blues

True Christianity follows Jesus

1 John 2:
3 Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. 4 He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. 5 But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. 6 He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.

The Roman Catholic cultists and Protestant offshoots prove they don't care for the Word of God and prefer their TRADITIONS of men and fall for religious lies like "going to Heaven" when the Word of God they reject on everything from what we should eat, to the Sabbath day, clearly teaches "the meek shall inherit the Earth."

Meanwhile, the true Church of God continues to keep the same biblical Sabbath, biblical festivals and biblical dietary laws that Yeshua, the apostles and the early Church of God (both converted Jews, Israelites and Gentiles) faithfully observed against growing demonic opposition (now known as the RCC - the Babylonian Mystery religion grown great).

The true Church of God, representatives and keepers of the faith once delivered, not having been corrupted by the pagan Roman traditions of men, trust Yeshua will return soon and teach and enforce our God-given pioneer ways over the entire world, based upon THE BIBLE - not baptized paganism pretending to be Christian!

Born Again and Heaven and Hell

The Plain Truth about Herbert W. Armstrong & the Worldwide Church of God

Temple Mount articles

A House of Prayer for All Peoples?

Restore Israeli Sovereignty Over the Temple Mount

Israel's Betrayal of the Jews

Jews Must Demand Rights to Temple Mount

Third Temple Coming Soon to Jerusalem!

Ariel Sharon: Return to the Temple Mount!

Where's the Temple on the Temple Mount?

The Vatican Must Return the Temple Treasures!

The Temple of God in Holy Jerusalem

The Baker-Hamilton Report

The biased and blind Baker-Hamilton report deserved to be dead on arrival, as Herr Baker has no right to pretend to represent American interests when he is a bought and paid for prostitute of Saudi Arabia and represents their interests against Americans suing the Saudi dictators over 9/11. Talk about a conflict of interests! James Baker should be kicked to the curb.

Uncle Jim - Shame on you!

Munich - Road Map Parallels Run Deep

Why Do Evangelicals Ignore Ron Paul?

Why Do Evangelicals Ignore Ron Paul?
By Chuck Baldwin
February 27, 2007

The Dutch Destroy Themselves

Like every Israelite country stricken with madness as part of our curse for disobedience to the laws of God (Dan. 9:11), the Dutch are destroying themselves through acceptance of illegal immigration. The Dutch are the Israelite tribe of Zebulon. - DBA

Dutch government to naturalise 30,000 illegals

The new Dutch government is to naturalise the estimated 30,000 illegal immigrants currently in the territory of the Netherlands. The new government, composed of Christian Democrats, socialists and the Christian Union, has been vehemently attacked for this by the opposition Liberal party, whose Immigration Minister, Rita Verdonk, made a name for herself for her tough stance on immigration. Mrs Verdonck’s party called the plan “extraordinarily irresponsible.” The Freedom Party led by Geert Wilders has also attacked the plan, saying that it would bring the Netherlands “to the brink” by encouraging “the Islamic invasion”. The proposed naturalisation has a retroactive effect, since it is being offered to all those who made an initial request for citizenship before 1 April 2001, when the new more restrictive immigration law was introduced. The Socialist government of Spain passed a similar law in 2005, providing for the mass naturalisation of illegal immigrants. Commentators have argued that this contributed to the mass influx of new boat people, principally from West Africa, who have been flooding into the Canary Islands ever since the law was passed, presumably in the hope that there will be future naturalisations as well. [Jean-Pierre Stroobants, Le Monde, 8 February 2007]

ZEBULON

THE TRIBE OF ZEBULON: RECLAIMERS OF THE SEA

Holland Identified with the Tribe of Zebulon

SOUTH AFRICA BOER AFRIKANER PEOPLE ISSACHAR ZEBULON FEAST OF TABERNACLES IN PROPHECY

Not All Twelve Tribes of Israel are Jewish?

Joseph Isn't Jewish!
German-American Israelites?
The Plain Truth About the "Lost Ten Tribes" and Why You Need to Know!
The United States and Britain in Prophecy
The United States and Britain in Bible Prophecy
Origin of Nations
Brit Am Israel
Australia in Prophecy
South Africa in Prophecy

Don't Dismiss Conspiracy Theorists - Debate Them!

I rarely see any honest debate among those who would so lazily dismiss folks as "conspiracy theorists" rather than use their brains and consider the FACTS provided.

For example:

"Signed agreements such as NAFTA and the S.P.P. (Security and Prosperity Agreement), the Canada -U.S. Smart Border Declaration, the Competitiveness Council and the Binational Military Planning Group are real policies and agreements, not conspiracies.

The SPP was signed by Prime Minister Martin, President Bush and President Fox in March 2005. It was reaffirmed in April of 2006 by Prime Minister Harper. The S.P.P sanctioned the recommendations of the North American Task force released in May of 2005.

John Manley, a former Liberal Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, now heads the Canada, USA, Mexico Task Force which released its recommendations for a North American continent wide union on May 17/18, 2005. Manley was quoted in All Patriot News in the USA, May 17, 2005. He said, "We are asking the leaders of the United States, Mexico, and Canada to be the architects of a new community of North America, not mere custodians of the status quo."

The North American Task Force is comprised of prominent former officials, businessmen, and academics from the three countries; in particular, they are from the U.S.'s Council on Foreign Relations, Canada's Canadian Council of Chief Executives, and Mexico's Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales. These are real people with real names, such as Thomas Axworthy, Merrill Lynch and Co., Inc.,Thomas P. d'Aquino, Professor Wendy K. Dobson, Dr. Robert Pastor (described as the Father of the North American Union by The Free Republic.com), Allan Gotleib, Pierre Marc Johnson, Heenan Blaikie, McCarthy Tetrault, Donner Canada Foundation (to name a few).

The Canada-U.S. Smart Border Declaration was signed December 12, 2001 by Liberal Deputy Prime Minister John Manley and Tom Ridge, USA Homeland Security Director. This declaration is a 30 point action plan from which flows the new passport rules, the current voluntary (soon to be mandatory) retinal, fingerprint, and RFID requirements for fast cross border movement, the no fly lists, i.e., listing of people who are not allowed to board any airplane within or out of Canada, USA, or Mexico, the arming of Canadian border guards.

From the S.P.P. flows a 30 member Competitiveness Council comprised of North America's most influential CEO's. Prime Minister Harper sanctioned the 10 person Canadian group whose job is to "advise" him. These unelected, unaccountable, unrepresentative live real people are part of the structure that supercedes our governments and is already driving the economic and social policies of three countries beyond the reach of our Members of Parliament." [emphasis mine]

Connie Fogal sets the record straight about the SPP

Purim, Purim, Purim!

Israel, Iran, and Purim

Death threats against Jews ultimately backfire as Purim teaches. Iran would do well to heed or suffer the consequences.

Purim: Rescind the Kahane Terrorist Classification!

The State Department's rash terrorist classification of Kahane discredits the United States and rewards terrorism. It's past time to right the wrong!

The Muslim Assault on Germany

The Muslim Assault on Germany

Commentary ^ | 2/25/2007 | by Paul R. Hollrah It is a sad picture, a Europe where so many people have never learned to fight for their freedom, where people were only good at enjoying it. But it is sadder still to realize that nearly half the American people agree with them - relying for their freedoms on the exertions of better men than they. ****************************************************** The backlash against the Muslim invasion of Germany and Europe is growing. When the dam breaks it will flood like a tsunami all the way to Iran and wash away their foreign filth. Europe Misses the Mark - Will It Return as the Sign of the Cross? Bavarian Pope Entrusts Germany To Lead Europe, Others Wary Of The Grand Inquisitor The German-EU Grows Restless Over Mideast Crisis A Warning For America From South Africa Some of my ancestors also hail from Germany. German-American Israelites?

President Abraham Lincoln on Jesuit subversives

Were you aware that President Abraham Lincoln exposes a very real Roman Catholic conspiracy against the United States? The subversive Jesuits hate our religious liberty and freedom of conscience with a passion! The bloody Vatican wants to destroy us and supplant truth with their tradition by any means necessary.

Abraham Lincoln regarding the Civil War as found in 50 YEARS IN THE 'CHURCH' OF ROME:

"This war would never have been possible without the sinister influence of the Jesuits. We owe it to popery that we now see our land reddened with the blood of her noblest sons. Though there were great differences of opinion between the South and the North on the question of slavery, neither Jeff Davis nor anyone of the leading men of the Confederacy would have dared to attack the North, had they not relied on the promises of the Jesuits, that, under the mask of Democracy, the money and the arms of the Roman Catholic, even the arms of France were at their disposal, if they would attack us. I pity the priests, the bishops and monks of Rome in the United States, when the people realize that they are, in great part, responsible for the tears and the blood shed in this war. I conceal what I know, on that subject, from the knowledge of the nation; for if the people knew the whole truth, this war would turn into a religious war, and it would at once, take a tenfold more savage and bloody character. It would become merciless as all religious wars are. It would become a war of extermination on both sides. The Protestants of both the North and the South would surely unite to exterminate the priests and the Jesuits, if they could hear what Professor Morse has said to me of the plots made in the very city of Rome to destroy this Republic, and if they could learn how the priests, the nuns, and the monks, which daily land on our shores, under the pretext of preaching their religion, instructing the people in their schools, taking care of the sick in the hospitals, are nothing else but the emissaries of the Pope, of Napoleon, and the other despots of Europe, to undermine our institutions, alienate the hearts of our people from our constitution, and our laws, destroy our schools, and prepare a reign of anarchy here as they have done in Ireland, in Mexico, in Spain, and wherever there are any people who want to be free."

President Abraham Lincoln continues:

"Is it not an absurdity to give to a man a thing which he is sworn to hate, curse, and destroy? And does not the Church of Rome hate, curse and destroy liberty of conscience whenever she can do it safely? I am for liberty of conscience in its noblest, broadest, highest sense. But I cannot give liberty of conscience to the Pope and to his followers, the Papists, so long as they tell me, through all their councils, theologians, and canon laws, that their conscience orders them to bum my wife, strangle my children, and cut my throat when they find their opportunity! This does not seem to be understood by the people today. But sooner or later, the light of common sense will make it clear to every one that no liberty of conscience can be granted to men who are sworn to obey a Pope, who pretends to have the right to put to death those who differ from him in religion."
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God Save Us From Islam and Europe!
Pope John Paul II Was No Saint
Germany's Fourth Reich Spreads Its Wings Over the World
Europe Misses the Mark - Will It Return as the Sign of the Cross?
Europe to Take Out Iran for Jerusalem
Bavarian Pope to Sweep Europe Off Its Feet?
Europe Swings Both Ways
Robert Novak: Useful Idiot for Catholic Schemes?
Bavarian Pope to Pump Life into EU Body
Vatican Linked to the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin
Plea to Diehard Catholics & Protestants to Repent
Sorcerer-Pope to Bewitch Europe and Mislead the Masses!
Mt. Zion Under Siege: Who Will Be King of the Mountain
The Intelligence Summit Misses the Mark: the German-Jesuit Threat to World Peace
Europe's Bitter Roots
The Secret Nazis Covet the Temple Mount
The Vatican Must Return the Temple Treasures!
Shimon Peres Came to Power Over Rabin's Dead Body
UN Resolution 181: Blueprint of the Beast?

Drunk on the Rapture Spirits? Get Sober!

Those who are drunk on tradition fail to recognize that their false teachings about the rapture can't stand up to Scripture, but falls flat on its face. There is not a single Scripture that says that Christians are going to be in Heaven during WWIII, the Great Tribulation, the Time of Jacob's Trouble. Not one. However, the Bible clearly shows that those Christians who are accounted worthy to escape will be protected right here ON EARTH - just like God has always done, consistent with His Word and Will -- and the Bible states it in black and white:

Revelation 12:
6 Then the woman [Church of God] fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God [a demilitarized zone], that they should feed her there one thousand two hundred and sixty days [the same length of time Jerusalem suffers under Gentile occupation]...

13 Now when the dragon saw that he had been cast to the earth, he persecuted the woman who gave birth to the male Child [Church of God to suffer persecution to an extent and then removed to safety to the place on Earth God has prepared for us]. 14 But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent. 15 So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood [armies, persecution] after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. 16 But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. 17 And the dragon was enraged with the woman, and he went to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ [and yet were unworthy to be accounted to escape - they're not "raptured" in Heaven or in "Her Place" on Earth].

These Scriptures in Revelation 12 show the Church of God, Christians, saints, mentioned after Revelation 4, the exact opposite of what some falsely state who believe Christians have been "raptured." They also reveal that those who are accounted worthy to escape, after initial persecution, are to find refuge in a preordained location on Earth, determined by God -- not go to Heaven with any "rapture" nonsense that's out there. There's not a single Scripture that says we go to Heaven -- those who fall for the rapture read into Paul's writings what is simply not there. But the Bible clearly states EARTH is where Christians will be protected: believe it or not.

The Rapture or Place of Safety?

Don't Fall for the Rapture!

Isaiah 28:7
But they also have erred through wine [false religious teachings], And through intoxicating drink are out of the way; The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink, They are swallowed up by wine, They are out of the way through intoxicating drink; They err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

Revelation 17:1-6
1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”
3 So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. 5 And on her forehead a name was written:

MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE [RCC] MOTHER OF [Protestants] HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

6 I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.

Israel in the EU?

Israel In The EU?

By EURSOC Two

Published: 23 February, 2007

Three quarters of Israelis would like to see Israel join the European Union.

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Since so many Israelis despise the Holy Land of Israel, God will give them what they want -- with a twist: the fascist EU will pollute Israel and occupy Jerusalem. As the following articles testify, Israel will be in the belly of the Beast:

EU to Conquer Anglo-Saxons and Jews

Paint Israel Black: Jews to Lose Jerusalem!

Grand Master Turns Up The Heat On Jerusalem; Trouble Brewing In The North

Woe to Ariel! (Jerusalem to suffer EU occupation)

Will Bush evict Americans from the Southwest?

Imagine -- God forbid -- Bush blathering we can no longer prevent illegal aliens from taking over the Southwest, so in order to have "peace" with Mexico, we must expel the law-abiding and productive Americans living there and surrender their homes and property and businesses to Mexicans before they start terrorizing the rest of the United States to create their new homeland called Atzlan. After all, we seized those territories with superior force and must now return them to right an alleged wrong. Don't be surprised if our government rewards illegal immigration and the madness goes that far, as part of the curse we're suffering for disobedience to our Great Creator God (Deut. 28:43, Dan. 9:11).

Don't Expel Jews from Gaza!

Red Carpet For Illegals

Red Carpet For Illegals
By Chuck Baldwin
February 23, 2007

http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/c2007/cbarchive_20070223.html

Moadon David Ben-Ariel

	David Ben-Ariel
	Isaiah 62:1 1 For Zion’s sake I will not hold My peace, And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, Until h...
	Director: David Ben-Ariel Open Date: 2/23/2007

Jewish Leftists and anti-semitism

Please check out Don Feder's latest posting on www.donfeder.com on Jewish Leftists and left anti-semitism.

Christians reject "Palestine" for Israel

Some strangely proposed a Jewish homeland in Uganda, but common sense and divine will prevailed and the Jews settled upon the historical land of Zion, the historical Jewish homeland, the Promised Land of ISRAEL. How logical.

Christians Reject "Palestine" for the Promised Land of Israel

Congress needs to rethink take on Middle East refugees

Resolutions introduced in both the US Senate and House of Representatives this week very belatedly recognizing that there was once a Jewish refugee crisis in the Middle East are both promising and dangerous.

Congress needs to rethink take on Middle East refugees

Toledo, terrorists, Muslims and madness

Toledo, Islam, and Terrorists

Ohio Mosque Promotes Murder!

Stop Welfare for "Palestinian" Terrorists!

President Bush Rewards Terrorism!

Call for Anglo-Israeli Alliance

Muslims Reject Moses and Jesus for Mohammad

UN to Punish "Blasphemers?"

G-d doesn't listen to Jewish prayers at the Western Wall

G-d doesn't listen to Jewish prayers at the Western Wall
The Third Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem ^ | 02-21-07 |
Gershon Salomon

Gershon Salomon and the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement is calling on the chief rabbis and the government of Israel to end the prayers of the Israeli people at the Western Wall. The time of prayers and worship at the Western Wall is over! The G-d of Israel is upset by His people who worship Him outside of His holy mountain and He expects us to go up to the Temple Mount and worship Him there.

An Open Letter to Stephen Flurry Concerning "Palestine"

An Open Letter to Stephen Flurry Concerning "Palestine"

Dear Mr. Stephen Flurry:

"Like father, like son" -- for better and for worse! I enjoy your clear writing style, resonant with scriptures, that the fine-tuned ear of the Elect look and listen for, which is why it's so BLARING when you perpetuate glaring error! Your otherwise excellent article in The Philadelphia Trumpet magazine, "Escape from Sodom and Gomorrah" was polluted with the biblically incorrect term "Palestine."

Your father [Gerald Flurry] quotes Shmuel Schnitzer lamenting the new Jewish people who are "preparing to deny our [Jewish] rights, both the divine promise and in terms of REFERRING TO THE LAND BY THE NAME OF ITS PEOPLE, "The Land of Israel' -- a land which belongs to the Children of Israel, from then and to eternity..." [emphasis mine] and then, himself, continues in "Israel's Lost Vision" blind to his own hypocrisy, "Let's look back at Palestine's recent history."

Yes, let's look at what name GOD gave the land as an inheritance of all Twelve Tribes of Israel. GOD named it after our patriarch ISRAEL. Satan inspired the Romans to mock God and dishonor our Father by attempting to erase Israel's name off the map! "They have said, 'Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more'" (Psalms 83:4). Why join with the enemies of God and Israel? Why give credence to an ILLEGITIMATE name? God forbid Israel ever becomes "Palestine"!

Since I truly believe you want to go by the Bible, please do so and refer to the Land of Israel by its GOD ORDAINED NAME -- Israel!

For Zion's sake,
David Ben-Ariel

(Originally published in the November/December 1996 issue of The National Messenger)

Stephen Flurry and The Philadelphia Church of God

The Great Mideast Commission: Reaching the Cities of Judah

David Ben-Ariel is a Christian-Zionist writer and author of Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall. With a focus on the Middle East and Jerusalem, his analytical articles help others improve their understanding of that troubled region. Check out the Beyond Babylon blog

Women preachers pervert and pollute the pulpit!

We need more men to stand their holy ground, and holy women to speak out against the perversion of the pulpit when its polluted with a woman preacher!

No women preachers, plain and simple!

The Month of Adar: Making Room for G-d

The Month of Adar: Making Room for G-d
The Third Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem ^ | 02-20-07 | Yitzchak Reuven

By building a place for G-d - a sanctuary, by allowing our hearts to impel us to do so, is to literally invite G-d's presence into our lives. This is true on an individual level. How much more so on a national level. How wonderful would it be for all nations of the world to dedicate their national wills toward the creation of a sanctuary for the one G-d of Israel, so that He could dwell amongst the nations.

Munich - Road Map Parallels Run Deep

Munich - Road Map Parallels Run Deep

by Prof. Eugene Narrett

February 18th, 2007

“We must not delude small nations into thinking that they will be protected from aggression…” — Sir John Simon, London, 2/21/38
Many people have noticed a terrible resemblance between the way Britain sacrificed the Czechs to Germany in 1938 and what the Oslo-Road Map plan has been doing to Israel. Ariel Sharon stated in 2002 that “Israel will not be Czechoslovakia,” a rare moment of bravery for which the vassal was rebuked promptly. Shortly afterwards, he returned to substantiating the parallel.

Still, few people realize how deep the comparisons go, how alarming they are and how they illuminate the true goals of British policymakers, — and their indifference to collateral damage. The record shows that the British are quite willing to accept war and destruction of assets (so long as most of the losses are born by others) and then have others pay and labor to rebuild what has been ruined largely through their own global designs, their relentless pursuit of Atlantic Union and World Federation.

Let us examine British diplomacy re Europe during the 1930s, making pertinent comparisons, predictions and prescriptions for today’s Middle East. Read the rest of this entry »

Hanukkah March of the Temple Mount Faithful

Another Exciting Hanukkah March of the Temple Mount and Land of Israel Faithful Movement to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem

Hanukkah March of the Temple Mount Faithful

A Jewish Homeland, Christian Zionists and Jews

Christian Zionists, Jews, and Israel

A Jewish Homeland

The Great Mideast Commission: Reaching the Cities of Judah

Israel Work History (Worldwide Church of God)

Herbert W Armstrong and Worldwide Church of God Mentioned in Israeli Newspaper

Vatican Envoy Bares Teeth Against Christian Zionists

Jews to Receive Jesus as Israel's King!

Save the City of David campaign

Court orders settlers to leave building in East Jerusalem
By Meron Rapoport, Haaretz Correspondent

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The Jewish families being shamefully evicted now, associated with Ateret Kohanim, remind me of those Jewish pioneers of the El-Ad ("To the City of David") organization that I was blessed to visit with as soon as they liberated areas of Shiloach years ago, as mentioned within Conflict in Jerusalem. Later I sat and talked with its leader, David Be'eri, on his lawn about the situation and future.

May a proper Jewish government be brought to power that will respect the Jewish Homeland and strengthen it and appreciate those who love it dearly. Meanwhile, may Jews, Israelis and Christian Zionists, encourage such patriotic souls in Shiloach to continue performing the mitzvot of settling the land and launch a "Save the City of David" campaign to show solidarity.

Israel's sworn enemies have no trouble getting a riot on, so why can't we manage to have an overwhelming show of support for those Jews on the frontlines to restore biblical Jerusalem? May the public have massive demonstrations and put pressure on the government to do the right thing and permit the Jews to remain. Let the yeshivas empty their classrooms and take it to the streets. No more Jewish expulsions!

El-Ad Foundation
The El-Ad Foundation is on the forefront of the movement to strengthen the ties of the Jewish people with ancient Jerusalem - the City of David. Right near the Western Wall, El-Ad is settling Jewish families right where the capital of Israel stood in the time of the Bible, developing archeological sites, and connecting visitors to the ancient City of David.

Thomas Paine

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine

A Higher Calling: Quest for the Kingdom of God

If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
Thomas Paine

EU to Conquer Anglo-Saxons and Jews

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.
Thomas Paine

Vatican Linked to the Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin

Blow up the mosques? I'm not the Messiah!

God has seen to it that my unjust deportation from Israel has served to highlight the plight of the Temple Mount suffering under Nazi-Muslim occupation before a worldwide audience and further expose the German-Vatican plot to control Jerusalem. Baruch HaShem!

Blow Up the Mosques or an Expired Visa?

When Caesar Plays God: When the State Oversteps Its Bounds

American Detained in Jerusalem's Russian Compound

Dangerous Ideas?

Israel's Unjust Deportation of David Ben-Ariel

Why Edward Abington, Jr. Must be Investigated!

From Toledo To Jerusalem

Watch Jerusalem!

The Israelis have installed cameras at the site where the Jews were repairing and improving the rampway to Judaism's holiest site, the Temple Mount, so the whole world can watch. The Israeli Antiquities Authority, which is conducting the excavations, has installed three cameras that broadcast the goings-on at the site 24 hours a day. One day soon the whole world will watch the work of the Two Witnesses from Jerusalem.

The Choice is Queer?

Bryan Fischer
Society must choose: Homosexuality or Judeo-Christian tradition
February 7, 2007

God and the Gays: To Be or Not to Be (Part 1)

God and the Gays: All that Glitters isn't Gold (Part 2)

God and the Gays: Once Gay, Always Gay? (Part 3)

God and the Gays: Of Vice and Men (Part 4)

God and the Gays: A Time to Heal (Part 5)

God and the Gays: Make Up Your Mind (Part 6)

Related articles of interest:

Scarlet Letter: A Christian With AIDS
Does God Heal Today?
Straight Talk about David and Jonathan
Brokeback Mountain Blues

Knesset Members Demand IDF Reopen Joseph's Tomb

Knesset Members Demand IDF Reopen Joseph's Tomb
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz

(IsraelNN.com) 35 Knesset members from various political factions are calling on the IDF to renew civilian access to the tomb of the Biblical Joseph in Shechem. The site, at which Jews have gathered for prayer over the generations, has been closed to visitors for the past three years due to the dangers posed by Arab terrorists in the region...

Knesset Members Demand IDF Reopen Joseph's Tomb


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Joseph stands before you!

Not All Twelve Tribes of Israel are Jewish?

Joseph Isn't Jewish!
German-American Israelites?
The Plain Truth About the "Lost Ten Tribes" and Why You Need to Know!
The United States and Britain in Prophecy
The United States and Britain in Bible Prophecy
Origin of Nations
Brit Am Israel
Australia in Prophecy
South Africa in Prophecy

St. John the apostle versus Rome

Saint John the apostle faithfully kept the seventh day Sabbath, not the Roman Sunday; Saint John the apostle faithfully kept the annual Passover, not the papist Easter, and faithfully observed the Jewish dietary laws (God gave Israel to share with all mankind) -- he didn't give folks a license to sin and pig out on whatever their dark heart coveted or to strangely engage in a cannabilistic ritual of eating blood that the APOSTLES (he was one of them) forbad converted Jews, Israelites and Gentiles at the holy Jerusalem Council of Acts 15 - and continued to keep the "Jewish festivals" the early Church of God (converted Jews, Israelites and Gentiles) kept -- not the Roman hollow days like Christmas (Saturnalia - a rose by any other name...) and the rest of the cheap replacement theology substitutes.

We need to do as the early Church of God did and keep the commandments and holy days of God -- not the idolatrous traditions of men, not the baptized paganism of Roman wolves in sheep's clothing (the Babylonian Mystery religion in Christian drag), so help us God.

Jude 1:3
Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints [in Jerusalem, not Rome].

Jeremiah 6:16
"Thus saith Yahweh, stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk there in, and ye shall find rest to your souls. But they said, we will not walk therein."

Abu Mazen, Israel’s and the world’s hope for peace?

February 14, 2007

Abu Mazen, Israel’s and the world’s hope for peace?

Mahmoud Abbas has long been secretary-general of the PLO’s ruling executive committee, which made him deputy to Yasser Arafat and heir to the PLO chairmanship. Today he leads Fatah and the PLO in Arafat’s stead.

A co-signatory to Oslo I and II, he purportedly represents “the moderate side” of the Arab world.

He is also a historical revisionist, and a Holocaust denier.

In his Arabic book, The Other Side: the secret Relationship between Nazism and Zionism, Abbas refutes “the Zionist fantasy, the fantastic lie that six million Jews were killed.”

Instead, this man with whom Israel’s government finds itself negotiating the future of Israel – the Jewish state born out of that very Holocaust – suggests a cynical and macabre connection between the Nazis and the Zionists, and claims that ‘only’ 890,000 Jews were killed by Hitler – these as the victims of a Zionist-Nazi plot.

Abu Mazen was recently quoted in the Hebrew-language Tzamtzam News as having said:

“In Oslo we received land and didn’t give anything in return”.

At a conference of Fatah activists in mid-2002, he explained:

"Israel did not fulfil Oslo and won't do so because it made the greatest mistake of its life when it signed the Oslo agreement…

"There is another thing that we did in Oslo. We took the land without giving anything in return, and the final status issues [borders, refugees, settlements, Jerusalem] remained as they were."

These words of truth speak volumes as to where Abu Mazen stands, and yet he is the new hope for peace of the U.S., Europe and even Israel!

As Jewish Studies scholar Rafael Medoff writes:

The Japanese publisher Bungei Shunju shut down one of its magazines for printing an article denying the Holocaust.

International pressure compelled Croatian President Franjo Tudjman to publicly retract statements in his book doubting that the Holocaust had taken place. Austrian Freedom Party leader Jorg Haider was ostracized by the international community for his remarks praising members of the SS, as was French politician Jean Marie Le Pen, for questioning the existence of the gas chambers and belittling the significance of the Holocaust. A recent poll found 64 percent of Americans believe world leaders should likewise refuse to meet with Abbas.

Yet some in the media have treated Abbas with kid gloves, to say the least. The official BCC News Profile of Abbas reports: "A highly intellectual man, Abbas studied law in Egypt before doing a Ph.D. in Moscow. He is the author of several books." The New York Times recently characterized Abbas as "a lawyer and historian . . He holds a doctorate in history from the Moscow Oriental College; his topic was Zionism." Neither the BBC nor the Times offered any further explanation as to the contents of Abbas' writings.

Bestowing the title "historian" upon Mahmoud Abbas awards his writings a stature they do not deserve, and deals a grievous insult to every genuine historian.

One would then ask why, if these facts are known to the Jewish Israeli leadership, do they go along with the dangerous game of the world, and especially the Quartet, to explain, condone and even kiss this Abu Mazen in the hope of receiving peace from him in return? Thus did past Jewish leaders try to prevent greater disaster by explaining and even accommodating their enemies in the vain hope that doing so would make some co-existence possible, and they would somehow be left to conduct their lives in peace. In fact, this self-deception by many Israeli opinion makers is worse than a case of “the emperor’s new clothes!”

For it’s not simply that Abu Mazen is ‘not a peace partner’ – he is not “just naked” as far as being a hope for any kind of peace is concerned. HE IS STILL AN ENEMY; he is now in cohorts with the lethal Hamas, and he himself is armed with guns and worldwide prestige – supplied by the very state he still hopes to replace with his Palestinian Fatah-Hamas state!

And people still think the Jews are clever?

Jan Willem van der Hoeven, Director
International Christian Zionist Center
www.israelmybeloved.com

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Christian Zionists, Jews, and Israel
Israeli Sheeple & Nazi-Muslims
Israeli Jews could Learn from Christian Zionists
Shimon Peres has No Clothes: Where's the Peace?
Daniel Pipes: Can the Leopard Change Its Spots?
Peace Now: Arabs and Jews Must Go Their Separate Ways
Don't Expel Jews from Gaza!
Moving Day in Gaza?!

The Rambam was wrong!

The great Medieval Jewish scholar Maimonides wrote:

The Jewish people did not believe in Moses our teacher because of the miracles he performed. If one believes in something because of miracles, he may suspect that they were performed through sleight of hand or sorcery...We believe in Moshe because of what happened at Mount Sinai. Our own eyes saw, not a stranger's, our own ears heard, and not another's...The revelation at Sinai is the only real proof that Moses' prophecy was true and above suspicion...(Yad, Yesodei HaTorah 8:1.)

What the Scriptures show is such "believing" people provoked God 10 times in the Wilderness, even after the 10 plagues upon Egypt, the utterly unique Mount Sinai experience, the Manna and the Water from the Rock...

If not for miracles, in accordance with the Law and the Prophets, how would we know who is the Messiah that's supposed to be like Moses? It's not written that we'll all be gathered together again at Mount Sinai, is it? So miracles, faith and works in accordance to the Tanach (the Bible), the fulfillment of prophecies, is the proof after all.

The RAPTURE is another religious lie

Misguided Mankind Requires Divine Deliverance; Extraterrestrial Intervention

The Rapture or Place of Safety?

Don't Fall for the Rapture!

Is a World Dictator About to Appear?

The REAL JESUS Can't Return Until

Peace now: Arabs and Jews must go their separate ways

The Jews have always known the covetous Arabs who occupy Israel are identified as Ishmael, and the Arabs themselves know it - even if it possibly became better known to some in the North and West due to Mohammad’s confirmation. Besides, who else fits the biblical PROFILE like the Arabs feuding with the Jews over inheritance?

Genesis 15:
18 On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram and said, “To your descendants [through Isaac] I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates: 19 the land of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, 20 Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, 21 Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites.”

Genesis 16:12
He [Ishmael] shall be a wild man; His hand shall be against every man, And every man’s hand against him. And he shall dwell in the presence of all his [Arab] brethren.

Genesis 17:
19 Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him [Isaac] as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him. 20 And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation. 21 But my covenant I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you by this time next year.” 22 When he had finished speaking with Abraham, God went up from him.

Genesis 25:
5 Abraham left everything he owned to Isaac. 6 But while he was still living, he gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.

Meir Kahane, former Israeli Parliament member and rabbi (murdered by another Arab terrorist) agreed with Sarah’s inspired words to Abraham about the necessity of separation between Ishmael and Israel. Kahane was right: “They must go!”

Representing Abraham’s vain attempt at “peaceful coexistence” –

Shimon Peres has No Clothes: Where’s the Peace?

Representing Sarah’s inspired wisdom that knows “peaceful coexistence” will never work:

Daniel Pipes: Can the Leopard Change Its Spots?

David Ben-Ariel is a Christian-Zionist writer and author of Beyond Babylon: Europe’s Rise and Fall. Check out the Beyond Babylon blog.

Mount Ephraim Newsletter (latest)

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Lost Ten Tribes ^ | 02-12-07 | Stephen Spykerman

THE DOOR INTO JUDAH IS NOW OPENING!
This is surely a momentous development – to me it is the fulfillment of a dream! Thousands of rabbis are BEING WOKEN UP to the extraordinary news that Judah’s long lost brothers of the House of Israel are in the spiritual process of being re-identified to their ancient Hebraic ancestry.

Jewish homes Ariel Sharon destroyed

Read and weep for the Israeli Jews of Gush Katif/Gaza, on whose behalf I wrote before their illegal expulsion by the bribed Ariel Sharon and criminal company working for foreign interests. Many of them remain homeless, depressed and basically abandoned by their lying government -- their former homes history, stripped bare and destroyed by marauding Arab enemies who are now fighting among themselves, one terrorist group (Hamas) against another terrorist group (Fatah), as the daily newspapers and television reports confirm.

Don't Expel Jews from Gaza!

Trouble upon the Temple Mount

Israel should say enough is enough, and the rabbis in Israel ought to be leading the Jewish people in protests that their religious rights (as well as those of Christians) are trampled upon the Temple Mount by the Nazi-Muslims and DEMAND Jewish prayer and worship upon the Temple Mount be guaranteed NOW -- just as the 1967 Law for the Protection of the Holy Places requires.

It's past time Israel REMOVE THE THREAT and protect Christian and Jewish pilgrims, securing their freedom of access.

Protection of Holy Places Law

June 27, 1967

1. The Holy Places shall be protected from desecration and any other violation and from anything likely to violate the freedom of access of the members of the different religions to the places sacred to them or their feelings with regard to those places.

2. a. Whosoever desecrates or otherwise violates a Holy Place shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of seven years.

b. Whosoever does anything likely to violate the freedom of access of the members of the different religions to the places sacred to them or their feelings with regard to those places shall be liable to imprisonment for a term of five years.

3. This Law shall add to, and not derogate from, any other law.

4. The Minister of Religious Affairs is charged with the implementation of this Law, and he may, after consultation with, or upon the proposal of, representatives of the religions concerned and with the consent of the Minister of Justice make regulations as to any matter relating to such implementation.

5. This Law shall come into force on the date of its adoption by the Knesset.

Levi Eshkol
Prime Minister

Zerach Warhaftig
Minister of Religious Affairs

Shneur Zalman Shazar
President of the State
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Law, without force, is impotent.
- Pascal

A House of Prayer for All Peoples?

Restore Israeli Sovereignty Over the Temple Mount

Israel's Betrayal of the Jews

Jews Must Demand Rights to Temple Mount

Third Temple Coming Soon to Jerusalem!

Ariel Sharon: Return to the Temple Mount!

Where's the Temple on the Temple Mount?

The Vatican Must Return the Temple Treasures!

The Temple of God in Holy Jerusalem

RCC vs. Sabbath-keeping Church of God

Plea to Diehard Catholics & Protestants to Repent

Sorcerer-Pope to Bewitch Europe and Mislead the Masses!

Considering the Catholic Church can trace its roots all the way back to the Apostle Peter, who led the first Christian church

Yes, the APOSTATE Roman Catholic Cult does go back (all the way back to Babylon in evil spirit) and clashes with Yeshua and the apostles, including Peter, who would NEVER EAT BLOOD or engage in some sick cannibalistic ritual misrepresenting Christ and Christianity.

I'd say we Catholics got it right, and maybe the Protestants need to repent.

Any honest person looking at the early Church of God in Jerusalem (before the Roman wolves in sheep's clothing came among them) can see a world of difference in doctrine, from abstaining from blood, to keeping the seventh day Sabbath and biblical festivals, never praying to dead people or making Mary into some co-redeemer (the good Jewish woman would spin in her grave if she were aware of such abominations!) or bowing before idols/icons, etc. The Babylonian whore and daughters need to repent of their Babylonian Mystery religion and return to the Faith once delivered, and still kept by the legitimate Church of God.

Do You Prefer TRADITION Over Truth?

The Plain Truth about Herbert W. Armstrong & the Worldwide Church of God

Don't you think that condemning someone to Hell for holding different beliefs is somewhat presumptious and arrogant?

I'm a member of the Sabbath-keeping Church of God and we don't believe in such traditional myths.

Born Again and Heaven and Hell

I'll gladly leave final judgment of attitudes and actions up to God the Father, as Father knows best.

History of the Papacy - zipped or HTML version

The Two Babylons by Hislop - zipped HTML 394kb

Jews, the Beast and False Prophet, and Rome's destruction

If the Jews fail to take their warnings seriously about imminent EU occupation of Jerusalem and Europe's wannabe divine emperor polluting the Third Temple, the Temple of God will be desecrated by the son of perdition, the so-called antiChrist. Yet it is precisely because it is the Temple of God that Satan and his slaves covet it with a passion and have their evil eye on Jerusalem.

I strongly disagree with the Roman Catholic Cult (if you haven't noticed), but I know the Catholics themselves believe they will have a "false pope" (or whatever they call him). It appears such a "false pope" (although still pagan and part of the Babylonian Mystery religion) will promote, as the False Prophet, Europe's strong leader, THE BEAST.

Why do I believe that such a pope will be a plant in the already corrupted Vatican? Because after getting the masses to follow the leader, the Beast, performing lying signs and wonders as a sorcerer-pope, after using and abusing the European kings to do their bidding, the same powers will turn around and hate the Catholic whore and burn her flesh and destroy Rome! Yet the False Prophet is found still at the side of the Beast!

Is that when they move to Jerusalem and perhaps even keep the biblical Sabbath and festivals to deceive the Jews, having destroyed Rome and appearing as good guys, and then brutally betray the Jews even as Roman Catholics were betrayed by such deceivers? Think about it.

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Israel's Chief Rabbi Invites Foreign Occupation

Is a World Dictator About to Appear?

Sorcerer-Pope to Bewitch Europe and Mislead the Masses!

Revelation 13:13-17

13And he performed great and miraculous signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to earth in full view of men. 14Because of the signs he was given power to do on behalf of the first beast, he deceived the inhabitants of the earth. He ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived [Roman Empire]. 15He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, 17so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.

18This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.

Revelation 17:15-18

15Then the angel said to me, "The waters you saw, where the prostitute sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations and languages. 16The beast and the ten horns you saw will hate the prostitute. They will bring her to ruin and leave her naked; they will eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 17For God has put it into their hearts to accomplish his purpose by agreeing to give the beast their power to rule, until God's words are fulfilled. 18The woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth."

Revelation 19:19-20

19Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against the rider on the horse and his army. 20But the beast was captured, and with him the false prophet who had performed the miraculous signs on his behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped his image. The two of them [still side by side even after Rome is destroyed!] were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur.

Israel called to build the Temple of God

There is a spiritual temple that true believers compose and then there is the physical temple that God commands Israel to build. They serve different purposes. The physical and spiritual temples complement one another, they do not compete against each other.

King David and the Prophets had the Holy Spirit. They were the spiritual tabernacle/temple in their days, but it didn't stop their great respect and understanding that the physical temple in Jerusalem had its God-ordained purpose, such as a place for the nation to worship together, and a place for foreigners to come and worship the God of Jacob. God commands Israel to build His House of Prayer for All Peoples to again serve that transcendent purpose. Will Israel soon fulfill their calling to do so?

The Temple of God in Holy Jerusalem

Restore Israeli Sovereignty Over the Temple Mount

Jews Must Demand Rights to Temple Mount

Where's the Temple on the Temple Mount?

The Vatican Must Return the Temple Treasures!

A House of Prayer for All Peoples?

Third Temple Coming Soon to Jerusalem!

Temple Mount Faithful demonstration in Jerusalem

Temple Mount Faithful demonstration in Jerusalem leaving the Western Wall Plaza. Gershon Salomon leads it and I'm to his side carrying the Temple Mount Faithful flag. This picture, along with many others, appears in the Winter edition of The Voice of the Temple Mount Faithful magazine.

UFO information

I'm not aware of anywhere in the Bible that refers to anything other than holy "UFO" sightings. Unlike mind games, such biblical incidents had definite meaning and purpose. Satan and his demons have been restrained in what they can do.

For the record, as taught by *Herbert W. Armstrong, the biblical evidence is against life on other planets. The Bible reveals Earth is unique and it is here that God has chosen to reproduce Himself: mankind after the Godkind, born again at the First Resurrection into the Kingdom-Family of God!

Kingdom of God-Beings to Rule Earth from Jerusalem!

Those who teach the UFOs are demons are preparing minds to fight against the return of Christ with all the glorified saints and holy angels as an "invasion from Outer Space!"

Misguided Mankind Requires Divine Deliverance; Extraterrestrial Intervention

Man Questions Whether We'll Be Angelic Or Divine

Born Again and Heaven and Hell

*Herbert W. Armstrong taught the following in his book, Mystery of the Ages. Here's an excerpt from chapter 7 -- Mystery of the Kingdom of God --

Outer Space—Planets Now Dead

Now put this together with what is revealed in the eighth chapter of Romans.

Here it speaks of Christ as God’s Son: “. . . that he might be the firstborn among many brethren” (Rom. 8:29). Humans, having God’s Holy Spirit, are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ—who, alone of all humans, has already been born as God’s Son by a resurrection from the dead (Rom. 1:4). He is the first of the human family to be born into the family of God—the kingdom of God. He is our pioneer who has gone on before. We shall follow at the resurrection of the just at Christ’s return to earth in supreme power and glory.

This eighth chapter of Romans, verse 9, says if we have within us the Holy Spirit of God we are his begotten sons, but if we do not have his Spirit we are none of his—not Christians at all. But verse 11 says that if we have God’s Holy Spirit growing within and leading us we shall be raised from the dead by his Spirit—(or if living when Christ comes we shall be changed from mortal to immortal).

Now continue: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. . . . The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ . . . also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us…” (Rom. 8:14-18).

Continue, Revised Standard Version: “For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation [all the suns, planets, stars, moons] was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. We know that the whole creation [stars, suns and moons now in decay and futility] has been groaning in travail together until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves [we Spirit-begotten humans], who have the first fruits of the Spirit [the very few now being called to salvation—the “firstfruits”], groan inwardly as we wait for the [birth] as sons” (verses 19-23).

What an amazing marvelous revelation of knowledge!

No more amazing, awesome, eye-opening passage could be written!

It is so astonishingly revealing, one doesn’t fully grasp it just reading quickly through.

First I quoted from verse 29 of Romans 8 stating Christ was the firstborn of many brethren.

In Hebrews 1, we see that Christ, the first human to be born by a resurrection from the dead, has been glorified and now sustains the entire universe. He is our Pioneer who has gone on ahead. At his return to earth in power and glory, those who have been converted and received God’s Holy Spirit shall be born into the God family by a resurrection. Then the entire universe will be put into subjection under them!

Then, from Romans 8, if we have and are led by the Holy Spirit of God, we shall be raised to Spirit composition and immortality in the God family even as Christ was in a.d. 31 upon his resurrection.

Now once again from verse 19: “For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God” (RSV). This shall happen after the time of the resurrection, when those who are human actually become—by a resurrection or instantaneous change from mortal flesh to Spirit immortality—sons of God.

Astonishing?—Entire Universe to Be Renewed

Now understand please. Why should the whole universe—the creation—be waiting with eager longing for the actual birth and appearing of all these sons of God, to be born into the family of God? The following verses portray a universe filled with planets in decay and futility—yet as if subjected now to this dead state in hope! “Because the creation itself [the universe not now capable of sustaining life] will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God.”

How did all the planets fall into the bondage of decay? Surely God did not so create them!

Decay signifies a state or condition caused by degeneration and decomposition from a previous undecayed state. God, then, created these planets in a state of nondecay.

But something caused deterioration to set in.

What could have caused all this “bondage to decay”?

It cannot be the state in which God created them! Everything we read in God’s revealed Word about God’s creation shows it to have been a perfect creation. The earth was first created a perfect creation of glorious beauty.

We see that angels inhabited the earth prior to the creation of man. Angels, who were perfect from the creation until iniquity or lawlessness was found in them, caused the whole surface of the earth to turn into a state of decay, confusion and emptiness, as shown in chapter 2.

Could the whole universe with its myriad of other planets have been created for the eventual purpose of sustaining life? We are not told specifically by revelation in God’s Word whether it was or not, but what we are told throws additional light on why God decided to create man!

Continue this passage in Romans 8:22: “We know that the whole creation [universe] has been groaning in travail together until now.” Consider that the creation is compared to a mother about to be delivered of her child. The creation is pictured as groaning in travail in hope (verse 20), awaiting the birth by resurrection to immortality, of the children of God. It is as if the creation is the mother and God is the father. Anyway the whole thrust of the passage is that when we (converted humans) are born of God—then having the power and glory of God—we are going to do as God did when this earth had been laid “waste and empty”—Hebrew, tohu and bohu (Gen. 1:2). Christ, who renewed “the face of the earth” (Ps. 104:30), was renewing what had been destroyed by the rebellion of the sinning angels.

What these wonderful passages imply and indicate goes far beyond the amount specifically revealed.

This passage indicates precisely what all astronomers and scientific evidence indicate—the suns are as balls of fire, giving out light and heat; but the planets, except for this earth, are in a state of death, decay and futility—but not forever—waiting until converted humans are born the children of God; born into the very divine family of God, forming the kingdom of God.

Jesus’ gospel was the kingdom of God. What I am showing you here is that Christ’s gospel of the kingdom actually includes all this knowledge here revealed—even the whole universe is to be ruled by us, who, with God the Father and Christ, become the kingdom of God.

God is first of all Creator, but God is also Ruler. And he is Educator, who reveals knowledge beyond and outside the scope of human mind of itself to comprehend!

Put together all these scriptures I have used in this chapter, and you begin to grasp the incredible human potential. Our potential is to be born into the God family, receiving total power! We are to be given jurisdiction over the entire universe!

What are we going to do then? These scriptures indicate we shall impart life to billions and billions of dead planets, as life has been imparted to this earth. We shall create, as God directs and instructs. We shall rule through all eternity! Revelation 21 and 22 show there will then be no pain, no suffering, no evil, because we shall have learned to choose God’s way of good. It will be an eternal life of accomplishment, constantly looking forward in super-joyous anticipation to new creative projects, and still looking back also on accomplishments with happiness and joy over what shall have been already accomplished.

We shall never grow tired and weary. Always alive—full of joyous energy, vitality, exuberant life and strength and power!