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Introduction
Last week, we waded into
some pretty deep waters. One
synthesis reader wrote in, respectfully
disagreeing with our conclusions, and adding that we, "may, of
course, have the last laugh." He continued, "and I rather imagine
that you believe you will." I appreciate healthy disagreement and
dialogue, but the idea of having "the last laugh" is repulsive
to me. It is true that with far too many people, being "right"
is one of the most important things in life. Most of us see
ourselves as always right in our own eyes. But we need to change our
perspective. We are not truly "right" until we are right with God.
And from the Christian perspective, there is only one way to be
"right" with God. As Paul wrote, "let God be true, but
every man a liar; as it is written, That you might be
justified in your sayings, and might overcome when
you are judged." (Romans 3:4) There is one thing I
can count on, and that is that when my words
and actions are judged by a perfectly righteous and holy
God, I will always turn out to have been wrong
somewhere. I simply can never measure up to the infinite
standard of God's perfect "rightness," which is
His righteousness. That's why I need a Saviour, an Advocate to
substitute his robe of "rightness" for my "filthy rags" of
imperfect, or partial "rightness." It's not so much about being
right, my friends. It's more about being ready for
the judgment of God.
Food For Thought
"
If we ever expect the purifying work to be accomplished in
our hearts, and ourselves got ready for the judgment, our
wrongs must be brought to our knowledge, seen, confessed,
and forsaken." ~ J. N.
Loughborough, 1867.
The Seventh
Trumpet
 Although
we will probably never all agree on what the
symbols in the first six trumpets of Revelation are referring
to, the language of the seventh trumpet is so plain, that
there is a good bit of agreement about what it is talking about. Let's read it.
Rev 11:15 And
the seventh angel sounded. And there were great voices in Heaven,
saying, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ.
And He will reign forever and ever.
Rev 11:16 And the
twenty-four elders sitting before God on their thrones, fell on
their faces and worshiped God,
Rev 11:17 saying, We
thank You, O Lord God Almighty, who are, and who was, and who is
coming, because You have taken Your great power
and have reigned.
Rev 11:18 And the
nations were angry, and Your wrath has come, and the
time of the judging of the dead, and to give the reward to Your
servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to the ones fearing
Your name, to the small and to the great, and to destroy those
destroying the earth.
The Climax Of The Ages
Clearly, the subject of this trumpet is
Judgment. The language reminds me of a solemn announcement made
three chapters on in the book of Revelation.
Rev 14:6 And I
saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having the everlasting
gospel to preach to those dwelling on the earth, even to every
nation and kindred and tongue and people,
Rev 14:7
saying with a great voice, Fear God and give glory to
Him! For the hour of His judgment has
come. And worship Him who made the heaven and the
earth, and the sea, and the fountains of
waters.
The seventh trumpet of
Revelation eleven announces, "Your wrath has come, and the time
of the judging of the dead, and to give reward... to the
saints, and to the ones fearing your
name..."
The first angel of Revelation
fourteen announces, "Fear God and give glory to Him! For
the hour of His judgment has come."
I don't know about you, but it
sounds like the same message to me. Personally, I have no doubt
that it is the same message, announcing the same
event. And it makes sense. A just and righteous God would have
to "have court" in heaven, examine the facts, and then pass
righteous judgment before He started "to destroy those destroying
the earth."
And aren't we destroying the
earth today in more ways than ever before?
How Much Longer Can This Go On?
A few days ago, there was a news piece on
television about a massive garbage dump that is floating in the mid
Atlantic ocean. You've heard about it too, I'm sure. The fish and
birds are eating the little pieces of plastic garbage that will
never break down. Eventually they die from malnutrition, if nothing
else. The problem moves on up the food chain, potentially all
the way up to humans.
The scariest part is that
scientists admit there is no solution to the problem. And this
is just one of hundreds of very real crises that are developing
in the environment due to greed and ignorance in the way we
have managed our earth's resources.
The Evolution Of Immorality
But the environment is just one small way
mankind is destroying the earth. Evolutionary theory, that
has been taught as scientific fact for several generations
now, has put the present generation into a moral tailspin.
If we are all just an
"accident" arising from the primordial ooze, then how can human life
have any real worth?
Suicide, murder, rape, child
abuse and molestation, robbery, corporate fraud-- anything and
everything goes, because there can be no absolute right and
wrong, and no absolute truth if we are all just an evolutionary
accident and there is no God, no sin, no need of a Saviour, no
right, and no wrong.
So even the
way we have been educating ourselves and our children is destroying
the earth in a very real way.
But that's not all. There is,
in the world today, an organized, economic, political, and
religious movement, whose roots date back into antiquity.
The Rise Of Spiritual Babylon
This movement has been secretly working to
institute a world government by a class of elitists who are secret
worshipers of the ancient Babylonian mysteries that are in violent
opposition to the government and truth of the God of heaven. Nimrod
was the great grand-daddy of these power-hungry people.
The following statement is
attributed to David Rockefeller, one of these super-rich elitists.
You might be skeptical about its authenticity, but I doubt it will
be long before we all wake up to discover that the goal he says they
have been working towards for "almost forty years" has been
accomplished.
"We are grateful to the
Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great
publications whose directors have attended our meetings and
respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It
would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the
world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during
those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared
to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty
of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to
the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
David Rockefeller Baden-Baden, Germany
1991.
This systematic destruction of the sovereignty of nations and the
rights of individuals in favor of world domination by
the wealthiest and most powerful men on earth is the ultimate destroying
of the earth.
And the investigative heavenly
court announced by the seventh trumpet of Revelation eleven and the first
angel of Revelation fourteen is the prelude to the executive
judgment described under the seven last plagues of Revelation that
will completely overthrow this crass New World Order rebellion
against the sovereign right of Jesus Christ to rule the earth in
justice and righteousness.
For those of you who are not
completely up to speed on the shocking revelations that are seeping
to the surface in the media these days, here are some resources to
educate yourself on the reality of this New World Order rebellion
that is about to end life as we have known it on the
earth.
She's Not Crying "Wolf"
Naomi Wolf is the author of a
book titled, The End of America. It examines a set
series of steps that have been used over and over again by political
despots to bring in totalitarian governments. Then it shows how
these very steps have been in progress, before our very eyes,
to close down American democracy in preparation for
totalitarian Fascism.
If this leaves you skeptical, Ms.
Wolf started out as a skeptic too. Then a German friend
who went through Fascism's rise in Nazi Germany persuaded her to
simply read the history and see for herself. She did, and the facts spoke for themselves.
Please let them speak to you too.
Click here to
watch a sobering video interview with Ms. Wolf to see
just how close we are to all-out Fascism in the United States. And
don't worry, if you live outside the United States, it's coming
to your country too, if it's not there already. How do we know? Because
of prophecies we'll touch on next week.
The Subversion Of A
Nation And A Planet
After you've looked at the video above,
take another 4:14 minutes to watch
Creepy Facts About
911. You can click
here to see this one.
What you'll see is the incredible number of times
the number 11 is associated with people, and things, related to the
911 tragedy that occurred almost seven years ago in New York City.
But why 11?
God is not the
only one interested in symbolic numbers. Those involved with the
Occult also love to use numbers to send secret messages.
Accordig to E. W.
Bullinger,
"If ten is the number which marks the perfection of
Divine order, then eleven is an addition to it, subversive of and undoing that order
. If twelve is
the number which marks the perfection of Divine
government, then eleven falls short of it. So that
whether we regard it as being 10 + 1, or 12 - 1, it is the
number which marks, disorder, disorganization,
imperfection, and disintegration." (1)
Could it be that the persons (or the demons?), behind 911
have left an Occult message letting us know that
something subversive is on the horizon? A New Order of things that
is in complete opposition to Divine Government?
We believe the "11" phenomenon surrounding 911
is no accident and that it is associated with things prophesied in
Scripture, and with things being described by Naomi Wolf and others. But you decide for yourself.
911 In
Prophetic Vision?
Here is one more reference
that seems to be connected with 911. Ellen White was
a nineteenth and early twentieth century Adventist pioneer
noted for dreams and visions that many believe were sent from God.
In one of her books she wrote:
"We are living in the time of the end. The
fast-fulfilling signs of the times declare that the coming of Christ
is near at hand.... The calamities by land and sea, the unsettled
state of society, the alarms of war, are portentous. They forecast
approaching events of the greatest
magnitude....
"The agencies of evil are combining their forces and
consolidating. They are strengthening for the last great crisis.
Great changes are soon to take place in our world, and the final
movements will be rapid ones....
"On
one occasion, when in New York City, I was in
the night season called upon to behold buildings rising story after
story toward heaven. These buildings were warranted to be fireproof,
and they were erected to glorify the owners and builders. Higher
and still higher these buildings rose
, and in them the most
costly material was used....
"The scene that next passed before me was an alarm of
fire. Men looked at the lofty and supposedly fire-proof
buildings and said: "They are perfectly safe." But these buildings
were consumed as if made of pitch. The fire engines could do
nothing to stay the destruction."
This reference is
taken from the 9th volume of Testimonies to the church and it
begins on page 11. Put that together with the other strange
coincidences in the video above and ask yourself, "Is this really
all just a coincidence?" What are the odds for that?
"Life as we know it
now will never be the same
again"
This past Tuesday,
I received an email. A friend informed me of a
well-traveled missionary, whom I know, with many accomplishments under
his belt. His name is Bill. He has
a close relative in
another state that called him just about 2 weeks ago with the
following story.
This relative was raised as a Seventh-day
Adventist, but is not one now. But he is obviously
beginning to think about Bible prophecy again after what just
happened to him. He is wealthy and owns a business. His
wife also owns a lucrative business selling fashionable women's
things. People come from all over the state to her store.
Two days before his phone call to Bill, his wife received a
client-- a wealthy lady friend of hers and client-- who told her
this:
"My son
is a Catholic priest-- high up in the U.S. hierarchy of priests.
He goes to the Vatican (in Rome, Italy) about every 2 weeks
and just returned 2 days ago. He told me, 'Mother, before the
elections in November there will be a great crisis in
the United States. Because of this crisis, life as we know it
now will never be the same again. The American lifestyle
will change and no-one will ever be able to carry it out the
same again-- never!'"
I don't include this story as a prophecy. It
may not happen before November, if God decides to hold it back a bit
longer. But understand that if the Word of God is true, and it is,
then such things are
right on the horizon, sooner or later.
Putting It All Together
Please believe me when I
say that I believe that true Catholic Christians are some
of the best and most sincere Christians, and if they are
true Christians, they will
be saved. A large proportion of my
relatives are Catholic and I love them all.
But next week, I'll share Bible evidence that
every Christian organization on earth has its
imperfections and that God is calling, not only all Christians of
every denomination and sect, but all people, of all
religious faiths
to acknowledge the special "reward" that
Jesus Christ is seeking to give us in
the Judgment that is announced by the seventh trumpet.
Next week, we'll try to share just enough
factual history and Scripture so that you can see a
relationship between Fascism, Catholicism, The New World Order, and
the Last Message of Mercy from a God of pure love to Protestants,
Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Pagans, Deists, Atheists, and
every other person now alive on Planet Earth.
We want you to see that the
judgment that is announced by the seventh trumpet
is truly a message of mercy to all who
choose to repent of their sins and accept Jesus Christ as both Messiah,
or Saviour from our sins, and as the
righteous King and Judge of all the earth.
But the same judgment will be
death and destruction to everyone who chooses to participate in the organized political
and religious rebellion against the God of heaven
that is being called the New World Order.
God loves us all. It's the political and
religious systems that have become corrupt. But God loves
every single person on earth whether they are involved with
those corrupt systems or not. And He's calling each one of
us out of these imperfect human systems to
Himself, before He judges them the final time.
Total Takeover?
The powers
involved in the things we've been talking about have a plan to
completely control the world in fulfillment of Revelation chapter 13
and other prophecies. That means that the following news item is a
necessary part of the complete fulfillment of this prophecy that must
take place before the final judgment of the earth.
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Tuesday,
August 5, 2008
Amazing revelations have
emerged concerning already existing government plans to overhaul the
way the internet functions in order to apply much greater
restrictions and control over the web.
Lawrence Lessig, a respected Law
Professor from Stanford University told an audience at this years
Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Half Moon Bay, California,
that “There’s going to be an i-9/11 event” which will act as a
catalyst for a radical reworking of the law pertaining to the
internet.
Lessig also revealed that he had learned,
during a dinner with former government Counter Terrorism Czar
Richard Clarke, that there is already in
existence a cyber equivalent of the Patriot Act, an “i-Patriot Act”
if you will, and that the Justice Department is waiting for a cyber
terrorism event in order to implement its provisions.
As Martin
Luther King asked in a different context and setting, "How long?"
The answer just might be, "Not long." Stay
tuned for next week's bombshell evidence that can let us "know that
it is near, even at the doors." (Matthew 24:33)
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Reader Comments
Re: synthesis 1.14
From: "J.Fred Calkins"
Thank you, Ian,
for sharing this research. It is indeed food for thought, meat
in due season. Keep up the good work. Fred
Subject: RE: synthesis 1.14
From: "Bryan
McNutt"
Hello, Ian,
Long time no see or
hear. I hope you are well and doing well.
Hey,
I'm happy to receive your material, and I respect your obvious
erudition. However, you should perhaps recognize that the
material is tough sledding for someone not steeped in or
congenitally predisposed to SDA lore. You preamble with "But
it's more than just a provoking perspective. If correct, it helps
support our conviction that there is a much-ignored Bible truth in
the bowels of Adventism that will soon impact every inhabitant of
earth regardless of religious persuasion," but the remainder of the
material appears to me to be a rather minute justification of the
SDA (and probably other fundamentalist) "historicist" and literal
interpretation of Revelation with allusions to a similar treatment
of Daniel that does not clearly come to a point.
Now, the deal seems to me that Miller's
prognostications came a cropper, and in their discomfiture some of
his followers scrambled for an interpretation that saved face,
resulting in the SDA church of today, who indeed do not seem to make
much mention of their founding embarrassment. If you want to
make inroads with such as myself, you need to dispense with the
SDA-heavy jargon and speak in more plain English. If you want
to convert the heathen, you need to speak their language.
Inasmuch as I seem to have an affinity to Adventists for somewhy and
have been exposed to them for years, even preceding Susan, I have a
passing familiarity with the material. Having read Sister
White some probably helps, too, so I have at least a sympathy for
and appreciation of the better aspects of the SDA approach.
However, I can tell you that mapping Daniel's dream interpretations
and John the Revelator's (whoever HE was, meaning disciple of whom?)
writing to history past and projecting onto history future of earth,
to say nothing of the expansion of galaxies and quantum gravity, is
not intellectually compelling. You may, of course, have the
last laugh, and I rather imagine that you believe you
will.
I am interested in your logo, "New Reformation,"
and how you construe that within the context of SDA
thought.
BTW, I am forwarding this via BCC to an old
born Adventist friend for an opinion.
Bryan
McNutt
Subject: A Stern
warning!
From: "Kenneth J. Passanisi"
First of
all; God has given me the great gift to accurately translate
his word from the original languages that he inspired men to write
it in... Secondly I write this out of love & fear for your life
follwing this one to come as well as this life... The book of
revelations; written by the same man that wrote the Gospel of John;
specifically states in chapter 22 verses 18 & 19 ; That if any
man shall add unto these things written in this prophey of this
book; God shall add all the plagues that are wriiten in this book
unto him/her... And if any man shall take away from the words of
this book of this prophesy, God shall take away his part out of the
book of eternal Life (zoe) KJV... If you know Jesus to be the son of
our living God (God in the Flesh!) then you have the life of Jesus
Christ in you which is eternal life already! And if this is true
than you are part of his body which is the Bridegroom! Revelations
proves in chapter 21:verses9&10 & 2&3 that the New
Jerusalam is the bride prepared for her husband (Jesus)...And if we
are one with him, Bought & paid for by the his blood on calvary,
than we are the body of the groom that he his the head of... which
makes us a part of the groom... Not the Bride! Which leads me to the
other statements you made about the 5th & sixth trumpets... I
don't recall locusts loosed out of the bottomless pit with faces of
men, hair like woman, teeth like a lion, and a tail of a scorpion,
with breastplates of iron & wings that makes the sound of horses
running into battle by the fifth angel in any historical documents
of our past on this earth; Nor do I recall four angels loosed, which
were prapared for an hour, & a day, & a month, & a year,
for to slay the third part of man. And the number of the army of the
the horseman were two hundred thousand thousand (200million) by the
sixth trumpet...Nor do I recall horses with breastplates of fire,
and of jacinth, & brimstone; having the heads of lions, &
shooting smoke, fire and brimstone from their mouths with serpant
like tails written any where in our time of history! You should be
very careful on quoting revelations; for it could cost you your
eternal salvation or at minimum plagues unlike any man or woman has
ever experienced to this date... I'm sure that if these things had
accured, we would not be here to discuss it... I don't have time to
go into my explainations of where I know this to be true in
docrine... But I will add this much; not from revelations; but other
areas in the new testament... All men are not ORIGINALLY created in
the image of God! If so, he would not have had to come in the
LIKENESS of sinful flesh & die for our sin & raise himself
from the dead thus proving himself to be God in the flesh!
Jesus created Adam in his image! In the beginning Adam was perfect
and without sin until he ate from the forbidden fruit...The sin of
eating that fruit entered his physical body & caused it to
eventually die... But the life in it was still eternal &
eventually went back to he who gave it to him...Remember, Jesus
breathed life into Adams nostrils when he became a Living
creature(Nephesh in Hebrew)... All the men born after him were not
formed by Jesus personally but in the womb of a woman, thus being
born into the image of man, NOT GOD! That is until Jesus died on the
cross for us; & all those that were given the knowledge of whom
he is; were given eternal life in a sinful body of flesh by Jesus
himself; through the Heavenly Father which is one in the same as
Jesus! This is true until he is finnished with us here on this earth
serving to Glorify God the Father & Jesus the Son! I pray that
God through the Holy Spirit (the third head of himself) Gives you
understanding of this & keeps you from being decieved by the
powers of darkness, this world & Satan! A son of God, Kenny:)
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