Munich Occult Symbology

Posted on May 21, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace, Saints.

Walking around Munich (as well as any other city in the world) one can find some interesting occult symbolism, even if one only has a rudimentary knowledge of the subject.  

This, for instance, is known as the oroboros (or oroborous).  

It is also called the alchemical serpent.  When one considers that alchemical in the occult sense means not the transformation of base metals into gold, but the perfection of the base human nature through occult knowledge, then we know that the oroboros has something to do with Satan.  For it was Satan who told Adam and Eve in the garden that by eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they could be “as gods.” In that the color red is often associated with Satan, it should come as no surprise to us that the alchemical serpent is also red.  

A stylized version of the oroboros appears often in various guises, including as a corporate logo.

Lucent Technologies

Without a knowledge of the aforementioned, one would not recognize the true meaning of this symbol if one were to see it.  As it would happen, I did.  So, imagine my surprise when I happened upon this structure on an ordinary Munich thoroughfare:

Notice the slightly discolored area at the bottom?  This is not an effect of weather or some other anomaly.  It is intentional and represents the head of the serpent eating its tail.  As a dog chases its tail endlessly, so does the oroboros swallow its tail endlessly.   For this reason, it is used as a symbol of eternity.  

Notice that the word oroboros starts with the word oro which means “gold.”  In the occult, gold is used as a symbol of the sun, and, for this reason, the oroboros is also used as a symbol for the sun.  

Next, the Washington Monument is famous the world over.   

Washington Monument (Photo courtesy Daniel Schwen)

But its true meaning has little or nothing to do with George Washington.  It is called an obelisk, and it is actually the phallus of the Egyptian God Osiris, who is, in actuality, Nimrod, the son of Cush and great-grandson of Noah.  

The significance of the obelisk is told in the Osirian Cycle.  Briefly, as the story goes, Osiris was killed and dismembered by his brother, Typhon.  His wife, Isis, scoured the world looking for the pieces of her husband and managed to find all but one. Would you care to guess which?  You guessed it.  So, Isis supposedly fashioned a replacement out of gold.  

The privy member of Osiris (Nimrod) figures prominently in the ancient mysteries and every nation in the world represents it in some way.  Munich is no exception, as the photo below confirms.  

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Munich Obelisk, dedicated to the war dead

The inscription reads “To the thirty thousand Bavarians who died in the Russian War.” As I said, it has nothing to do with George Washington, which adds force to my argument that it really represents the privy member of Osiris or Nimrod.

With regard to symbols, I have a very simple rule: if a symbol is said to mean one thing here, but another thing there, then it is very probable that neither meaning is true.  And we know that is precisely the case with the obelisk.

This well-known symbol, called the All-Seeing Eye, is commonly found on the reverse side of the one dollar bill:

Reverse of Great Seal of the United States

Of particular interest is the eye within the pyramid, which has been associated with the occult group, the “Illuminati.”    This symbol is often seen cast in gold as it is here in this Masonic jewel: 

All-Seeing Eye on Masonic jewel

Opinions differ as to when, where, why, and by whom the Illuminati was started,  but one account holds that this group was first seen in Spain where it was known as the “Allumbrados” which translates to “The Illumined Ones.”  

Formed by the Spanish nobleman, Ignatius Loyola, this occult group was said to have been later commissioned by the Roman Catholic church as the Jesuit Order for the express purpose of destroying the Protestant Reformation.  This would essentially make the Illuminati a Roman Catholic led organization, which helps explain the following image:

All-Seeing Eye on St. Peter’s Church, Munich

 

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All-Seeing Eye on St. Peter’s Church, Munich

 

This is the Church of St. Peter, found in Munich down the street from the Viktualienmarkt right before Marienplatz.  As you can see, the eye in the pyramid atop the church figures prominently.  Note the spirals to either side of the statue of the Mother and Child at center.  The spiral has been used since antiquity as a symbol of the sun and also of The Goddess.  

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A website discussing celtic symbols says this about the spiral:

“The spiral is probably the oldest symbol of human spirituality. It has been found scratched into rocks from thousands of years ago, on every continent in the world.

“The religious significance can only be guessed, but it has been found on tombs, and possibly has a connection with the sun [as] the sun makes a spiral shape every three months in its travels….

“In modern times, the spiral is still spiritually significant.  It is the symbol of spirit in Wicca, an emblem of the Goddess.” 

Sun worship (as well as goddess worship) plays a significant role in Roman Catholicism, evidenced not only by the spirals, but, most importantly, by the fact that the image of the goddess at St. Peter’s church above, whom Roman Catholics call the Virgin Mary, is standing on a golden globe.  A golden globe has always been emblematic of THE SUN.

The sun is so important to Roman Catholicism that it even shows up on food.  There is a popular bread in Munich known as “semmel” (pronounced ZEMELL).  It is a very tasty bread that is an important part of the Bavarian diet.  It is often eaten for breakfast with butter and/or cheese, jelly, or preserves and for lunch with leberkaese (literally “liver cheese”).  It is very good, and once you try it, it is hard to imagine breakfast without it.

Below is a photo I made of a particular piece of semmel that met its demise shortly thereafter.

Side view of semmel

Below is a top view.  

Top view of semmel

As you can see, it features a five-armed figure which resembles a star.  Note that the arms are not straight like a conventional star, but curved, as if the figure were rotating clockwise.  That’s because it is.  It’s a sun symbol, similar to the one below.

This symbol is known as a Borjgali, which Wikipedia describes thus:

“Borjgali is an ancient Georgian symbol of the Sun and is related to the Messopotamian [sic] and Sumerian symbols of the eternity [sic] and the Sun.” [Capitalization in the word Sun found in the original.]

In that the sun symbol on the piece of semmel above resembles a star, and Munich is a Roman Catholic city, and Roman Catholicism worships an idol called the Virgin Mary, which is an ancient goddess, who was worshipped in the Bible by the apostate Jews with a star, the reader might want to read here and here.  

Goddess worship is alive and very well.

Next, the serpent is probably the oldest occult symbol in existence.  Images of serpents have been found in virtually every country in the world and the serpent features prominently in the folklore of these countries.  Many civilizations actually worshipped the serpent.  The Bible teaches that Satan, in the form of a serpent, deceived Eve into eating of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  In the Book of the Revelation, Satan is called “that old serpent.”  

The mystery religions believe that the God of the Bible is actually the bad guy because He withheld knowledge from Adam and Eve and kept them naked and ignorant in the garden of Eden.  They believe that Lucifer, called Satan, is really the good guy, because by deceiving Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit, he brought knowledge and wisdom to humanity and brought us up from our base ignorance.  For this reason, the serpent is often known as “the serpent of wisdom.”

Mystery Babylon, as the Bible calls the ancient, pagan mystery religions of the East, has always hoarded knowledge from the “uninitiated.”  They control true religion, true history, and true science and keep this knowledge from the common man.  Jesus dealt with these people during His ministry and called them “serpents” and “vipers” (Matthew 23:33) because they “held the key of knowledge” (Luke 11:52) and withheld that knowledge from the people.  

Jesus’ use of the words “serpents” and “vipers” was not arbitrary.  The Pharisees were religious men who knew that Jesus Christ was the only way to salvation, but they withheld this knowledge from the people and denied Jesus publicly.  This knowledge would have led people to salvation; and who, but Satan, that old serpent, would not want for people to get saved?  This is why Jesus called them serpents.  They withheld the key of knowledge from men.  

This is important in the secular sense also, because since antiquity the religious establishment has been responsible for education.  So they not only hold the knowledge of true religion, but they hold all true knowledge.  What is being taught in most schools is not knowledge, but information disguised as knowledge.  This is logical, since the Bible says that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10).  If, therefore, you want to keep true knowledge from the people, you must begin by keeping from them the knowledge of God.  The Roman Catholic church knows this all too well.

Bearing this biblical perspective on the “serpent of wisdom” in mind, you can imagine what went through my head when I saw this:

Serpent of Knowledge at the Munich Patent Office

This is the entrance to the Munich branch of the German Patent Office.  Notice the key next to the serpent’s tail.  In light of what we have just discussed, there can be no doubt as to its meaning.

Munich Patent Office Sign

It is fitting that the serpent of wisdom withholding the key of knowledge would be associated with a patent office, as a patent office determines what inventions and discoveries—knowledge, if you will—the public will be allowed to know about and benefit from.  I can only imagine how many inventions with the purpose of benefitting all mankind have been stopped dead at the patent office, because someone saw an opportunity to privatize the invention in order to make money or to keep the public from benefitting from it.

Granted, I don’t know anything about the patent process, but I do know a little something about Satan, and this sounds like something he would do.  

These next images were captured at the Deutsche Museaum (German Museum) in Munich, situated on the Isar River.  As one can plainly see, this structure is comprised of two circular features.

 

The Zodiak displayed on the Deutsche Museum in Munich

The top feature is obviously the zodiac, which are, in astrological terms, the twelve ages or “houses” that the sun passes through along its orbital journey.  This is made clear from the sun image to the left of the dial, which appears to point to each month and astrological house.  This is true because on this photo, the pointer on the sun image appears to be situated between the houses of Aries (The Ram) and Taurus (The Bull) and to be pointing to the month of April, which happens to be the month that I took this photo.  

The Zodiak displayed on the Deutsche Museum in Munich

There are, of course, twelve signs in the zodiac as there are twelve months in a year.  The earth completes its circular orbit around the sun in twelve months or one calendar year. A year is comprised of 365 days which is just five digits more than the 360 degrees found in a circle.  This is why the circle is so often used as a symbol for the sun.

But a circle is not only used as a symbol of the sun: it is also used as a symbol for Nimrod, the Sun God.  You see, legend has it that the great rebel, Nimrod, the son of Cush and the grandson of Noah, was killed by his great uncle Shem, the father of the Jewish people.  After his death, Nimrod was deified as the Sun God by his wife/mother Semiramis.  As the Sun God, he was “the source of all life on this earth: he was the source of all warmth, he was the source of all ENERGY, he was THE GENERATIVE FORCE.”  Therefore, he was symbolically represented, among other things, as trees, fish, and animals.  Incidentally, have you ever wondered why nearly all towns have an Elm or Oak street? Nimrod was also known as The Oak.  

The signs of the zodiac all point to Nimrod and his wife Semiramis.  “But,”
you say, “What do the scales of Libra have to do with trees, fish, animals or the Generative Force?”  Nothing.  However, Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod, was also known as The Apportioner (Isaiah 65:11). (“That Number” is defined in Strong’s Concordance as a deity (idol) named menee, which is Chaldee for “The Apportioner” or measurer.)  Now you know where we get our word many. 

You see, everything we ever need to know is in the Bible, which is why the Bible says that “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs 9:10).

Now that you know that the zodiac has to do with Nimrod and Semiramis, and you know that the scales are a symbol for Semiramis, then you have probably guessed that the lady holding the scales, known as Justice, is really the goddess Semiramis.

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You may also be interested to know that Scorpio, the scorpion, is a symbol for Nimrod, who is also identified with the Greek god, Orion.  Legend has it that Orion, the giant hunter, was killed by a scorpion.  

Proof that the twelve zodiacal signs are actually Nimrod and his wife Semiramis can be found in the feature below the zodiac.  As one can see, it contains seven characters, five male and two female, beside each is written a word.  The words are the days of the week in German: Montag (Monday), Dienstag (Tuesday), Mittwoch (Wednesday), Donnerstag (Thursday), Freitag (Friday), Samstag (Saturday), and Sonntag (Sunday).  I once read that the names of the days of the week are derived from the names of Norse gods and goddesses, and I believed it.  But when I saw this, I really believed.  

You see, the German word for moon is Mond, so Montag literally means “moon day.”   And the figure above featured as Montag is a woman with a crescent moon next to her.   Because I believe that this figure is a goddess, then this crescent moon would identify her with the goddess Diana or Isis, both of whom were identified with the moon.  Incidentally, the idol, known as the Virgin Mary is also identified with the moon.  Coincidence, right?

Now the Bible teaches that astrology is witchcraft and witchcraft comes from the devil (Deuteronomy 18:10).  Proof of this is the fact that the goddess Diana is displaying the El Diablo or “horned devil” hand sign.  Now that you know that the moon is associated with the goddess and the so called El Diablo horn sign is also associated with the goddess, you may want to read about the Cult of Mary here.

The figure representing Mittwoch or Wednesday is also displaying the occult 666 or “three rings” hand sign as shown below: 

This figure is further proof that the names of the days of the week actually pay homage to pagan gods.  Mittwoch is German for “middle of the week,” so that tells us nothing.  If, however, we look at the figure himself, we will see that he holds a staff with two snakes entwined around it and with wings near the top.  This is known as a caduceus.

Besides being the symbol for the medical profession, the caduceus is also associated with the god Mercury or Hermes.  

 

That both the figure of Wednesday and the god Hermes hold a caduceus would seems to suggest that Wednesday is actually Mercury or Hermes.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

But this is where it gets interesting, for you see, Wednesday is said to be named for the Scandinavian god Wotan or Wodin (Wednesday=Wodin’s day) who is depicted below.

Now compare this image of Wotan with that of Hermes above.  Because nothing in the world of symbolism is coincidence, then the winged helmet means something.  I believe that the winged helmet is a symbol identifying Hermes with Wotan.  They are the same person.  

If it is true that all gods and goddesses are actually Nimrod and Semiramis, then both Hermes and Wotan are actually Nimrod.

Now pay close attention to what Alexander Hislop in The Two Babylons says about Hermes:

 

 

“Hermes is just an Egyptian synonym for the “son of Ham” (p. 25).  

 

Ham was the youngest son of Noah.  Now, Ham had four sons: Cush, Mizraim, Phut, and Canaan (Genesis 10:6).  Which son, then, is Hermes?:

“Hermes is the “Son of Her or Ham,” the burnt one—that is, Cush” (Hislop, 25. See footnote).

So, Hermes is really Cush.  Cush, also known as Ethiops, “The Black One,” is the father of the black race.   Africans were known as Cushites for centuries.  According to Hislop, Hermes, or Cush, was deified as the Sun God (as was his son, Nimrod), and this is why many of the gods like Mercury, Apollo, and Horus were identified with the sun.  

Alexander Hislop says that Cush was often identified with Nimrod.  So, though Hermes is Cush, he is actually a symbol for his son, Nimrod.  Proof of this is the spear that is always associated with Wotan.  A spear is a symbol of a hunter, and Wotan is said to have been a great hunter.  But, remember, Wotan, as well as Hermes, is merely a symbol for Nimrod. How, then, does the spear of a hunter identify Wotan as Nimrod?  Listen to what the Bible says,  

“And Cush begat Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.  

“He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord” (Genesis 10:8-9).

Now If Wotan or Odin is really Hermes, and Hermes is really Nimrod, then Wotan is Nimrod.  Incredible, isn’t it?  

In the event you are still not convinced, notice that behind Wotan’s head above are two black birds, possibly ravens or crows.  Almost every picture I have seen of Wotan has two black birds in it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wotan is also always in the company of two black dogs.  You must understand that in the world of symbolism everything associated with a person has a symbolic meaning–even colors.  The dogs further prove that Wotan is Nimrod, because, in Greek mythology, Nimrod was known as Orion.  Orion, who was also a mighty hunter, was always accompanied by his two dogs, Canis Major and Canis Minor.

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The dogs are black to further associate them with Nimrod, who was black.  The black birds are said to be the eyes of Wotan, flying all over the world gathering information for him. They were spies.  For the significance of this, keep reading. 

Let us return to the Deutsche Museum.  Look closely at the symbol on top of the building above the sun and stars.   Can you tell what it is?  

It appears to be an owl, doesn’t it?  An owl apparently has great significance in the occult, as it appears very often.  It is also associated with the goddess, Athena.

Listen to what Alexander Hislop says regarding Athena:  

“One of her distinguishing titles was Ophthalmitis…the goddess of ‘the eye’…as the Egyptian Maut (a goddess) wore a vulture on her head, so the Athenian Minerva was represented as wearing a helmet with two eyes, or eye-holes, in the front of the helmet (p. 294). [Parentheses and boldface mine.]

As all gods and goddesses are really symbols for the deified king and queen of ancient Babylon, Nimrod and Semiramis, then Athena is really Semiramis.  So, anything associated with Athena is really a symbol that identifies her with Semiramis.  The question, therefore, is not what the eye and the owl mean, but how they identify Athena with Semiramis.  

I believe that the eye and the owl represent Semiramis in her role as Rhea, who, according to Hislop, was also called “The Gazer” (p. 294).  She was also called “The Lady of the Spies,” because espionage was an important part of the mystery religion, which she helped create.  What is important about the owl is that it can not only see very well in the dark, but it can also rotate its head 180 degrees.  It can, therefore, see toward the front and toward the back.  This is crucial, because the helmet with eye-holes already identifies Athena with Rhea.  The owl, then, must represent something or someone else.

And it does.  As Semiramis was given other names, so was her husband, Nimrod.  And one of those names was Janus.  Below is an image of Janus:

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As you can see, Janus has two heads: one looking toward the front, the other looking toward the back; just like an owl.  Incidentally, Janus was called “Lord of spies,” “Janus the Seer,” and “All-seeing Janus” (Hislop, 27).  So, in the person of Athena and the owl, we have a representation of Semiramis and Nimrod in their aspects of Rhea “The Gazer” and Janus “The Seer.”  Mystery Babylon.

Now, while you ponder these revelations, consider that the Roman Catholic church worships a goddess called the Virgin Mary and that the Roman Catholic papacy is called the “Holy See.” 

Bear all this in mind, as we revisit these photos:  

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All-Seeing Eye on St. Peter’s Church, Munich

All-Seeing Eye on Masonic jewel

All-Seeing Eye on Masonic jewel

Finally, consider this photo:

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All-Seeing Eye on American one-dollar bill

Are you starting to make some connections?  Oh yes, dear friends, we have ALL been deceived!  

Before we leave the Deutsche Museum, let us examine one final symbol.  Located just above the zodiac and right below the owl, is this feature:

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It appears to be in the shape of an egg, lying on its side.  We already know that this symbol represents Nimrod and/or Semiramis, and this is borne out by the fact that half of the egg is gold, which represents the sun and, thus, divinity.  We need, therefore, only divine which aspect of Semiramis is being portrayed here.  The egg is a symbol of fertility, therefore Semiramis is being represented here as Ashtoreth, Ishtar, or Easter, the goddess of fertility, whom the ancient Phoenicians and the apostate Jews, including King Solomon, worshipped.  

This is further confirmed by the other side of the egg, which is black with a blanket of seven-pointed stars.  The Bible tells us in Amos 5:26 and Acts 7:43 that the apostate Jews worshipped a goddess named Remphran and Chiun with a star.  The Roman Catholic church, coincidentally, also worships a goddess, whom they call Mary, with five-, six-, seven-, and eight-pointed stars.  

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You may read more about it here and here. 

The next series of images will prove conclusively that Munich is definitely into sun worship.  If you’re ever in Munich, from the Hauptbahnhof (Main Train Station) take the U2 subway East to Messestadt Ost (Convention Center East).  Try to sit at the front of the train.

When you arrive at Messestadt Ost, get off at the East side of the subway (where the elevator is).  Take the stairs or the escalator to the first floor.

Once there, head toward the exit.  Before you even get to the doors, you will notice a large circle on the ground with steep walls slanting upward.

Once outside, you will be greeted with a curious sight.

 

 

 

What are those lines for, and what is the significance of the Roman numerals?  I’m certain that the lines correspond to the movements of the sun and the Roman numerals are the months of the year.  This is a device for charting the sun’s movements.  The smaller numbers, that you can barely make out, are actually dates, as shown below.

22.6 is June 22nd, and 23.5 and 23.7 are the 23rd of May and the 23rd of July, respectively.  Is it a coincidence that June 22 is the last day of the summer solstice?  

Now, I’m not into astrology, but John Todd, a former witch who was supposedly converted to Christianity, said that witchcraft is nothing without astrology and that a witch will do nothing without consulting the stars.  That should give us some idea as to why someone thought this was necessary.  The fact that this modern day Stonehenge was built with tax dollars ought to demonstrate to you the importance of astrology and sun worship to many in Munich today—and, in fact, the world.  

Here is a top image of this temple of the sun.

Notice that the Roman numerals follow the path of the line and that the numerals stop at twelve.  You should also notice that the path of the line makes a distinct shape.  You may want to remember this so that if you see this shape somewhere else, you’ll know what it represents.

Here is the Munich Sun Temple from ground level.  

Saints, Mystery Babylon is alive and well.

By now, you may be somewhat convinced that Mystery Babylon is the worship of Nimrod and Semiramis, the first king and queen of ancient Babylon.  As all the world worshipped these two, then all gods and goddesses are really Nimrod and Semiramis.

Nimrod, as I stated earlier, was a black man (Alexander Hislop, The Two Babylons, p. 47).  Now, Satan hates the black race because of the actions of one black man: Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses.  So, in nearly all cases, Nimrod’s blackness will be represented only symbolically.  But this fact is still apparent for anyone with discernment.

Of the god Buddha, for example, Alexander Hislop, says, “The great god Buddh is generally represented in China as a Negro” (p. 57).  Though many statues of Buddha in the West are often in gold color or brass, or, as in China and Japan, depict him with the skin color of a typical Asian, a great many statues of Buddha are black.  And even when this is not the case, if you take a look at the hair on virtually all statues of Buddha, you will see that it is merely a stylized depiction of the coarse, curly hair associated with most black Africans.  In fact, there are many statues of Buddha in China, Japan, and India which depict him not only with the skin color of a Negro, but also with the facial features of a black man.

The worship of Nimrod and Semiramis was put down when, according to Alexander Hislop and ancient historians, Shem, the middle son of Noah and father of the Semitic peoples, including the Jews, killed Nimrod for his crimes.  From that point on, Nimrod’s worshippers went underground and practiced their religion in secret using occult symbols and secret signs and tokens.

One way the worshippers of Nimrod and Semiramis represented them secretly was as a goddess mother and her child.  You may be interested to know that Semiramis, Nimrod’s wife, was also his mother.  In fact, in the ancient world, Nimrod was known as “The Husband of His Mother” or simply “The Husband.”  This title is found even in the Bible, as Baal.  Most Bible students know that Baal means “lord,” but few consider that Baal also means “husband.”  In ancient times, it was customary for a woman to call her husband “lord,” as a term of respect.  As a matter of fact, the Bible teaches that Sarah, the wife of the great patriarch, Abraham, called her husband “lord” (1 Peter 3:6).  Hang on for the significance of this.

As the worship of the deified couple was global (Acts 19:27), the worship of the Mother and Child was universal and predates Roman Catholicism by thousands of years.  In fact, when Jesuit missionaries first arrived in China, they were surprised to find that the people there already worshipped a goddess, whom they called Shing Moo (or Ma Tsoopo), and her son! 

Mystery Babylon, as the Bible calls the ancient worship of Nimrod and Semiramis, has its modern counterpart in the Roman Catholic church.  And the Goddess Mother and Child are represented in the Roman Catholic church as the Virgin Mary and Baby Jesus.

Rome knows full well that Nimrod and Cush, his father, were black.  Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI even has a black king on his personal coat of arms.

Pope Benedict Coat of Arms

The equal-armed cross or “T” on the bear’s side may be a symbol for Nimrod, as he was also called Tammuz (Ezekiel 8:14).  If so, then the black king is likely Cush.  The seashell is a symbol for Semiramis, also called the Virgin Mary, who is known as “The Star of the Sea.”  The three represent the pagan trinity.

Now, in that Mystery Babylon worships Nimrod and Semiramis covertly through symbols, but Satan hates blacks, then it is no wonder that Nimrod or the Baby Jesus is generally represented as white.  Every now and then, however, I will come across a representation of Nimrod that is closer to the truth.

From the Munich Main Train Station (Hauptbahnhof), take the U2 or U5 subway East to Ostbahnhof (East Train Station).  Go to the front of the train station and exit onto Orleansstrasse.  Proceed South on Orleanstrasse about a quarter of a mile until you get to the intersection of Orleansstrasse and Rosenheimerstrasse.

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On the Northwest corner you will see a building with the following painting on it:

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As you can plainly see, though the “Baby Jesus” has the hair texture and facial features of a Caucasian, he clearly has the skin color of a Negro.  And this is no affect of weather or any other anomaly, as the hand of the Virgin Mary, holding the “Baby Jesus” proves.  Whoever painted this knew what he was doing.  He knew that the Baby Jesus is really Nimrod.  Truth is stranger than fiction, isn’t it?

We’ve already discussed the significance of the All-Seeing Eye.  Well, I found another one a month or so ago.  From the Munich Hauptbahnhof, take the U2 subway East to Untersbergstrasse.  Take the exit that goes up to Werinherstrasse.  Once upstairs, walk straight ahead on Werinherstrasse, staying on the left side of the street, for about a quarter mile until you get to the intersection of Werinherstrasse and Severinstrasse. 

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On the opposite side of the intersection you will see a large church-like building…

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that has this on it:

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The building houses, among other things, the Social Security office.

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On the side of the building on the roof can be seen a stylized version of the symbol of the Jesuit order.

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Stay tuned to this page for more pictures, God willing.

The Still Man

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The Power of Intercessory Prayer

Posted on May 16, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace, to the saints of God, and greetings to the children of disobedience.

Prayer is very important in the life of a Christian; and it is, without a doubt, one of the greatest privileges given to those who name the name of Christ.  Prayer is our way of talking to God, who is our Father.  And just as we go to our earthly fathers when we want something from them, so do we pray to our Heavenly Father when we want something from Him. 

 

We pray when we need a blessing from God.  We pray when we need protection from God.  We pray when we need healing from God.  We pray when we need forgiveness from God.  And we pray when we want to thank Him for His goodness.  But how often do we consider that it has also been given to the body of Christ to pray the will of God in the life of another?  This is known as intercessory prayer.  And it is more than just talking to God.  It is exercising the power of God in the lives of others.

Jesus wants us to care for one another.  When asked which was the greatest of the commandments, Jesus said,

“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.  This is the first and great commandment.

“And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” (Matthew 22:37-39). 

It must be noted that Jesus was not only talking to believers, but to unbelievers as well.  Jesus wants all men to love one another.  In John Chapter 13, when giving His final instructions to His disciples before He was to suffer and die on the cross, Jesus said,

“A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another, as I have loved you” (John 13:34).

He repeated this commandment twice in Chapter 15:

“This is my commandment: That ye love one another, as I have loved you” (v. 12)

“These things I command you, that ye love one another” (v. 17).

To love others, then, is not an option for the Christian.  We must love one another.  And the most loving thing that a Christian can do for another is to pray for him.  I can illustrate this with a very practical example.  Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that you needed a favor or had a problem that could be easily fixed if you had the right connections.  Let us say that a friend of yours was also a good friend of a king or president.  One of the best things that friend could do for you would be to mention your name to that king or president and try to get your problem fixed. 

So it is with the Christian.  We have the ear of the King of Kings, the President of Presidents, the Potentate of Potentates.  And our God is able to do whatever He wants whenever He wants.  So, if it is God’s will to help those for whom we pray, He will do it.  Clearly then, the best thing that we can do for our friends and family both in Christ and in Adam is to pray for them and intercede on their behalf.

In the eyes of God, there are only two kinds of people: those who know Jesus, and those who do not.  But for the sake of our discussion, these can be further broken down into the following groups:

  1. Our family, friends, and loved ones
  2. Our brethren in the Lord
  3. The Church
  4. Those in government
  5. Our enemies
  6. Everyone else

INTERCESSION FOR THE LOST

With respect to the lost, we should pray most importantly for their salvation.  The Bible says that God wants all men to be saved:

“The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9).

We should, therefore, pray that our lost friends and family will one day repent of their sins and accept the Lord Jesus as their Savior.  This is love in action and is especially true in the case of those family and friends with whom we do not associate or who choose not to associate with us.  I have had family members accuse me of being haughty and judgmental, because I choose not to associate with them regularly.  But the Bible does not compel us to associate with those in the world when they are living in wickedness.  What the Bible says is that we should love them and, when and if possible, share the Gospel with them.  Then their blood will not be on our head (Ezekiel 3:18-19).

So once we have given them the Gospel, our obligation has been fulfilled.  From that point the most we can do is to stay in prayer for their salvation. 

INTERCESSION FOR OUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES

The Book of Job gives a great example of intercessory prayer.  Chapter One tells us that Job often prayed for his children:

“And it was so, when the days of [Job’s children’s] feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt sacrifices according to the number of them all: For Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts.  Thus did Job continually” (Job 1:5).  

This passage can teach us some important things about intercession. 

First, note that Job offered sacrifices “according to the number” of his children.  That means that he sacrificed at least one animal for each child rather than one animal for them all.  Likewise, we should also pray according to the number of our family.  We should single out each person for whom we are praying, and pray for them by name.  We shouldn’t merely say a blanket prayer for all of them.  When we pray for a person by name, we show how much we care for him as an individual, and not merely a member of a group.  We imitate God’s attitude towards us, because he sees us as individuals, and has numbered every hair on each of our heads.

Secondly, note that Job prayed for his children during “the days of their feasting.”   This shows that he knew something of his children’s lives and habits.  Job knew that the chances that one of his children could blaspheme God increased while they were drinking wine and making their hearts merry.  So Job prayed for his children particularly during the time of their revelry.  He tailored his prayers to their circumstances. 

Likewise, intercessory prayers should never be static.  When we intercede for others, our prayers should be according to our knowledge of their lives and circumstances.  Someone may be going through a divorce, starting a new job, having problems with substance abuse, expressing doubts about God, depressed, running with the wrong crowd, having a baby, or any number of things.  Most people’s lives are dynamic and fluid and our prayers for them should emulate their lives.  

Thirdly, note that Job prayed for his children “continually.”  Job knew that God heard his prayers on behalf of his children, yet he did not take it for granted that he did not have to continue in prayer for them.  

This is important for us to understand.  We must continually pray for our children.  In the United States, Germany, and, I would wager, the world, the education system exists expressly for the purpose of indoctrination.  It exists to prepare children to assume their role in the New World Order.  It exists to destroy their faith in God and supplant that faith with a faith in man.  Later, once the Antichrist is firmly in power, that faith will be finally supplanted with a forced worship of the God of the Antichrist. 

It is, therefore, of utmost importance that parents intercede for their children.  Parents must pray that God will insulate their children from the antichrist propaganda that is being forced on them in the schools.  Parents must pray against the satanic indoctrination and symbolism that is being inculcated into their minds through television programming.  And parents must pray that God will open their understanding to Satan’s many devices. 

I cannot overemphasize intercession for our children, our friends, and our relatives.  It is not only for their benefit, but for ours also.  Scripture says:

“[P]ray one for another, that ye may be healed” (James 5:16). 

This is generally taken to mean that we should pray for each other’s healing when we are sick.  But what it also says to me is that God wants us to care for others and not just for ourselves.  It says to me that when we show genuine concern for the welfare of others, God heals the breaches in our own lives.  This has biblical precedent.

In Chapter 42 of the Book of Job, we are told that at the end of Job’s trial, God healed Job and restored all that He had taken from him; even two-fold.  But what is often overlooked is when God effected Job’s healing:

“And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: (Job 42:10).  

As you can see, it was not until Job prayed for his friends that God healed him.  The reason God wanted Job to pray for them was because they had spent forty chapters trying to convince an innocent man that he was a hypocrite and had incurred the wrath of God by being a self-righteous sinner.  Then God shows up and lets these men know that they “had not spoken of [God] the thing which [was] right” (Job 42:8).  Notice that God was very careful to point out that Job was the only one of the four of whom He approved, even going so far as to use the phrase “my servant Job” three times (v.v. 7-8).  Job was vindicated.

Now the common attitude when we have been unjustly accused and then proven innocent is to say “Nah, nah, na-nah, nah!”  God did not want righteous Job to adopt this attitude. Job had towed the line the whole time he was suffering, never once sinning with his lips, and God didn’t want him to do so now.  God could just as easily have demanded that Job’s friends get on their knees and beg His forgiveness.  But He had Job pray for them.  Why? Because he wanted Job to love them, and praying for someone is the most loving thing you can do for them.  Besides this, Job represented God, and forgiving his friends is a picture of God forgiving us.

This is very significant and highly suggestive of what our attitude should be when we have been wronged by others.  We should forgive them and pray that God would also forgive them.  God wants us to “love the brethren.”  This brings me to the next group of those for whom we should pray.

INTERCESSION FOR THE BRETHREN

Our brethren in the church need intercession, as many who name the name of Christ are sinning as much as those in the world.  It has become the custom of many Christians to condemn a brother who has been caught in the act of sinning, but the Bible teaches that we should pray for such:  

“If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and He shall give him (the praying brother) life for them that sin not unto death” (1 John 5:16).

The sin unto death is the “unpardonable sin”: blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.  God says that He will grant the praying saint forgiveness for his sinning brother.  Notice that God did not in any way qualify this forgiveness.  It is a promise.  God said that if you see a brother sin, you have but to ask God to forgive him, and He will do it.  This is a tremendous blessing and has been given us for the unification of the body of Christ.

How many of us have seen one of our brothers in the faith do something he has no business doing, but instead of praying for the brother, we choose to condemn him.  Or we pray for him, but we pray in the wrong way or for the wrong reason.  I imagine one reason we do this is because we are ignorant of the will of God.  But as we have just seen, God’s will is that we pray for that brother and not condemn him.  And each of us would like the same consideration if we were in that brother’s place.  And this is not limited to our lay brothers and sisters, but it also applies to the pastor and others in leadership. 

Do you see the importance of this?  How many Christians sin and do not confess that sin to Jesus?  Unconfessed sin can be a source of great difficulty in a Christian’s life.  But if Jesus will forgive a brother for another, then that sin is confessed and the brother will not have to suffer the spiritual fallout from his sin.  This is great news!

Now it stands to reason that after praying for the brother we confront him in a loving way and let him know that what he is doing is wrong, and that he should confess this sin.  But Scripture also says that after the third admonition—the third warning—we are to avoid that brother, because he is willfully sinning against the Lord.  Until then, though, we must strive to correct him in a godly fashion.

This is one of the ways that “the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”  And is very significant because often we don’t know what God’s will is when we pray for someone, which is why we always pray that the will of God be done (Luke 22:42).  But, in this instance, God has told us that if we pray for an erring brother to be forgiven for his sin, then his sin will be forgiven.  We need not wonder what the will of God is.  This is a huge blessing.

Jesus gave us a very good example of another way that we should pray for the brethren.  Speaking to Simon Peter, Jesus says:

“Satan has desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat.  But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not” (Luke 22:31-32). 

This is a good example of intercessory prayer in spiritual warfare.  Jesus told Simon Peter that Satan had designs on him.  Satan wanted to destroy Peter’s faith, because he knew that Peter was going to be greatly used of God.  So, he tried to destroy Peter’s testimony by having him deny Jesus three times.  But Jesus prayed for Peter and, though he hit a bump in the road, Peter emerged as a “pillar of the faith.” 

It is extremely important to note that Jesus did not pray that Simon Peter be spared the temptation by the devil, even though He knew full well what that temptation would be.  Temptations and tribulations, though often psychologically, emotionally and even physically challenging, are permitted by God to strengthen us.  So it is not advisable to pray that an individual not go through the trial, but rather that they come through that trial stronger, wiser, and, more importantly, with their faith intact.

This is an example of how we should pray for pastors.  Good pastors are constantly engaged in spiritual warfare.  Not only are they charged with regularly feeding their flock, but they have to pray for their congregants’ wellbeing, pray for others’ salvation, pray for the sick, pray for the afflicted, and pray for strength in the face of myriad temptations.  And besides the church family, pastors still have to take care of their own families.  They desperately need our prayers.

The devil is relentless when it comes to pastors as well as evangelists, Christian counselors, and anyone else with a burden for the lost.  And the stress can sometimes be overwhelming.  Pastors have left the ministry and even the faith because they could not handle the steady buffeting of Satan.  We often fail in our duty to consistently pray for our pastors, but we need to work toward being better at this, because they desperately need our prayers.

Anther group that needs intercessory prayer are babes in Christ—the newly converted—because Satan will be working overtime to destroy their faith.  It is often the case that when a person becomes a Christian, he will get lost in the midst of the church’s many responsibilities and come to feel as though he were merely another face in the crowd.  (This is especially true in churches that have very large congregations.)   New converts need constant attention.  They need to be constantly fed and nourished up in the word of God and their growth monitored.  And they need to be constantly prayed for that Satan will not derail their faith.

INTERCESSION FOR THE CHURCH

An example of intercessory prayer for the church can be found in Jesus’ Great Priestly Prayer, found in John 17.  Jesus, prays:

“I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil” (v. 15).

Here, Jesus prays for the protection of the church from spiritual and physical evil.  Likewise, we should pray a hedge of protection around our brethren in the Lord.  We should pray that God will protect them from the efforts of the Wicked One and the children of disobedience to harm or destroy them.

Jesus continues:

“Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth” (v. 17).

Everything begins with the truth.  The fear of the Lord is only the beginning of wisdom.  Believers must continue to be sanctified (holy and separated unto God) to live a victorious life.  This passage tells us that sanctification comes with the knowledge of the truth.  This is called discernment, the knowledge of good and evil: of truth and error.  Discernment is of paramount importance to the Christian, for without it we cannot resist Satan’s deceptions.  We should, therefore, pray that the Lord will give the church discernment. 

“That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us…” (v.  21).

The unity of the church is all-important.  And the church cannot be unified unless we stay yoked to Christ Jesus.  Jesus said that He is the true vine and we are the branches.  Without Him we can do nothing.  The only way to stay yoked to Jesus Christ is to keep His commandments, for Scripture says:

“He that keepeth His commandments dwelleth in Him, and He in him” (1 John 3:24).

If the Church, therefore, would be unified, we must keep the commandments of God.  The last, and, therefore, greatest commandment that Jesus gave us was to “Love one another” (John 15:12,17).  Let us, therefore, pray that the children of God would love one another.

Jesus next prays that his followers would be with Him where He is: that is, in Heaven.  Now, Scripture tells us that those who believe on Jesus already have eternal life (1 John 5:13).  So, it is a given that we shall be where the Lord is.  What we should pray, then, is that the Lord would “keep us from falling.” 

INTERCESSION FOR THOSE IN GOVERNMENT

We should also intercede for those in government.  When a crucial election is coming up or an important ballot initiative pending, we should pray that those in government will make the right decision.  The Bible says that we are not fighting against flesh and blood, but against “spiritual wickedness in high places” (Ephesians 6:12).  Those high places are the seats of government, and a government’s decisions will affect its citizens for many years. 

As Job prayed for his children “according to their number,” so should we also be familiar with our government leaders and pray for them by name.  Satan and his followers are trying to influence their decisions for evil, so we must diligently pray that they will use their power and influence for good.  This even applies to those politicians whom we know are doing the work of Satan, for the Bible says that God has put them in office to fulfill His will, one purpose of which is to punish evildoers (1 Peter 2:14).

Additionally, we should pray for those in civil service—especially police officers, firemen, and soldiers.  Policemen have been given a bad rap because of the actions of a few bad apples, but all policemen are not predators.  There are still good police officers out there—men and women—who would risk their lives for someone whom they don’t even know. It takes a special kind of person to be a police officer, knowing that any day you walk out of your house could be your last.  

Firemen and women are also a special breed, and though I’m a grown man, I’m still in awe whenever I pass by a fire engine.  I was brought up to respect a man who would risk his life to pull a total stranger out of a burning building: and I still do.  

We have been at war for ten years, and our sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, husbands, mothers and other family members are fighting and dying on foreign soil.  This war is arguably the bloodiest ever, and a soldier’s worst fear is no longer dying in battle, but coming home maimed, mangled, and permanently scarred.  I believe that the War On Terror has seen more amputees than possibly any war in history.  And more soldiers have committed suicide in this war than in any previous war.  

Police officers, firemen, soldiers, and others are risking their lives daily and actually dying to keep us safe.  Theirs is a thankless job, but a vital one.  Were it not for their sacrifices, we would live in constant fear.  We need to pray for their safety and for the well-being of their families.  Moreover, most of these brave souls do not know the Lord Jesus, and they need to; because any day could literally be their last.  They need our intercession.

INTERCESSION ON BEHALF OF AN ENEMY

Jesus also said that we should pray for our enemies.  He did this very thing Himself when he prayed for His murderers, saying,

“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34).

Stephen, when he being stoned, also prayed that his murderers not be held accountable for his death (Acts 8:60).  Likewise should we also pray for our enemies; for Jesus said,

“Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.  

“That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for He maketh His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust (Matthew 5:44-45).

This passage tells us that we should love and pray for our enemies because, in so doing, we are emulating our Master.  Now this is good advice, because, for many of us, our enemies include our family and friends: the very people whom we trust the most and are supposed to love.  If Jesus’ advice had been for us to hate our enemies and love only our friends, we would have a very hard time in life, because Jesus said that the day would come when a man’s foes would be those of his own household.  And if you are like me, then that day has already arrived.  Clearly then, it is better for us to love and pray for our enemies and not to hate them. 

How do we pray for an enemy?  Well to begin, we must forgive them in the same way Jesus and Stephen did and pray that God will not charge our persecution to their account. That keeps it from becoming personal.  The Bible says that our fight is not with human beings, but with Satan and the powers of darkness (Ephesians 6:12).  I can tell you that once you forgive an enemy, it is easier for you to pray for their salvation.  For no man can truly hate an enemy if he is praying for them.

Jesus said that we should love and bless our enemies also, so that is what we should do.  I have on occasion prayed that God would give my enemies a really good day: a day to experience the joy of not having Satan manipulate their every thought and emotion.  Some of our enemies have children who have never experienced true love, happiness, and joy and are miserable because of it.  We can pray that their children for once in their lives experience this.  These are examples of how we can pray for an enemy.

Intercession for an enemy is even more important when it is a family member.  Some of our loved ones are our enemies for the Gospel’s sake (Romans 11:28).  Others are our enemies because they are carnal-minded and, therefore, will not and cannot be subject to the will of God (Romans 8:7).  These won’t obey God, but we can still intercede on their behalf.  We can pray, for example, that God will give them a measure of discernment for their benefit or for the safety of their children.  This is biblical, because discernment comes from the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit gives Himself to whomever He will—even the unsaved. 

Let’s suppose that your sister is an enemy for Jesus’ sake, and she has three young children, whom you love very much.  You know how much Satan hates children, so you know that he is going to do whatever he can to not only corrupt them, but maybe even harm them.  You can intercede on the behalf of your sister, by praying that the Lord would open her eyes to what people she should be careful not to allow around her children, or what television programs are not advisable for her children to watch, or to watch out for a certain neighbor who has designs on them.  You can even pray that the Lord would soften her heart a little.  And you can always pray a hedge of protection around her and her family.  Of course, you should be praying that one day she will accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

In some instances, praying for a loved one can be more difficult than praying for an enemy, because they are so close to us.  Satan often uses our closest family members to afflict us, because they are so close.  This is especially true if the family member is not saved.  For example, Satan may cause a spouse to be particularly rebellious, or unloving, or even promiscuous.  Every married person has certain expectations of his or her spouse, and when those expectations aren’t met, it could be a major source of strife, discontent, and disharmony.  When so many emotions are involved, it could be extremely difficult to pray for such a spouse, let alone actually intercede on their behalf.  This has been the most difficult part of my personal Christian walk. 

When one is going through such a struggle, one often forgets that, because the person is unsaved and in rebellion, they not only will not submit to the will of God, but they cannot submit to the will of God.  And if they won’t submit to God’s will, it’s a foregone conclusion that they won’t submit to yours.  This is all part of spiritual warfare.

The more determined one is to do the will of God, and intercede for the rebellious family member, the more determined Satan will be that the family member will rebel.  This is spiritual warfare, so we must get our heads around this.  

We should all intercede on the behalf of our family, relatives, and friends, even if they are our enemies.  Though it can be very difficult at times, we should do it.  After all, if we won’t, who will?

INTERCESSION FOR MOTHERS

Many women have absolutely no idea how to take care of a child.  There are women, for example, coming from dysfunctional homes who have never experienced a loving, caring family environment where they received love and attention from their parents.  Consequently, these women have no idea how to show love for their own children and are woefully inadequate to the task of effectively rearing a child.  If these women are Christians, God can show them how to raise their children if they will ask him.  The Bible provides us such an example in the life of the mighty Samson whose parents prayed for guidance about how to raise the boy before he was even born (Judges 13:1-18).

Most women, however, who come from such backgrounds do not know the Lord.  Some of these women, for various reasons, are so inept at child rearing that they actually pose a danger to their children.  They may be substance abusers or have other addictions.  They are loving people, but the call of their addiction is stronger than their will to do right.  They, therefore, pose a danger to their children.  Many of these women have no family or friends to whom they can turn for help or advice, even if they were inclined to receive it.  Others are cursed with a spirit of rebellion so serious that they will heed no advice.  It can be almost impossible to help such women.

All these women need intercessory prayer.  They need for someone to pray that God would grant them wisdom and discernment and show them how to properly raise their child.  That’s where we come in.  We can intercede on the behalf of such women and pray that God will intercede on their behalf and impart to them the wisdom to manage themselves or send someone into their lives who can help.  And we can always pray a hedge of protection around their children.

INTERCESSION AND GENERATIONAL CURSES 

Some parents are under a generational curse.  This means that a parent or ancestor has committed some sin that is extremely grievous in the eyes of God, and for this sin, God has cursed the lineage of the person.  Some of the most loving and intelligent women are under a generational curse and because of this, their children will also be cursed and, therefore, suffer from the same problems they do.

I believe it may be possible to not only intercede for that parent, but also to entreat God to forego his wrath for a generation to spare the child of the penalty of the parent’s rebellion and enable the child and, hopefully, the parent also, to seek God’s face.  There is biblical precedent for this.

We know that King David was beloved of God and was said to be “after God’s own heart.”  God showed incredible mercy on the house of David and the tribe of Judah because of David’s faithfulness to His word.  When David’ son, Solomon, committed idolatry, God said,

“I will not take the whole kingdom out of [Solomon’s] hand…for David my servant’s sake…But I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand” (1 Kings 11:31b, 34, 35).

There is a second example.  The twenty-first chapter of the First Book of the Kings tells how King Ahab displeased God by having a man killed so he could take possession of his vineyard, which the man had refused to sell to him.  God tells King Ahab that for shedding innocent blood and for other crimes, He would destroy Ahab’s lineage.  Upon hearing this news, King Ahab was afraid and humbled himself before the Lord, to which God responds:

“Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me?  because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son’s days will I bring the evil upon his house” (1 Kings 21:29).

There are other examples, but from these two, a case can be made that under certain circumstances, God will postpone His judgment for a season: even for a generation. 

There is more evidence to support this.  In Exodus 20:5 God says that He would curse the children, but in Exodus 34:7, He says that He would curse “the children’s children.”  I believe this is because if God allows a curse to skip a generation and fall not upon our sons or daughters, but upon their sons or daughters, then the curse will not fall upon our children, but upon our children’s children.  This is why God says “unto the third and to the fourth generation.”  If the curse skips a generation, it will be not unto the third generation, but unto the fourth generation.

Now, God accepted Job’s prayer for his friends, and the Apostle James tells us that God will forgive a brother’s sin for another who prays on his behalf.  I, therefore, believe that because God is “Merciful and Gracious, Longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth” (Exodus 34:6), if it is His will, God will suspend His judgment for a season, if a brother entreats Him on another’s behalf.  I truly believe this. 

Now I have prayed just such a prayer for the child of a family member and for the child of a dear friend.  When I did so, I asked God to forgive me if I were being presumptuous and to let me know if I were praying in error.  And I have never had the feeling that I was wrong about this.  In fact, it was because of my prayer for the child of my friend that I decided to write this article.  Given that the present crop of children is farther from God than any previous generation, and that many of them are suffering from various psychological and behavioral problems that cannot be explained by conventional medicine, the discerning Christian should carefully consider what we have discussed here.

Prayer is an awesome privilege.  Through prayer we have access to the throne of grace of the Sovereign Monarch of the Universe, and He has availed Himself to us any time of the day or night.  But prayer is more than just a privilege; it is a duty.  We owe it to the Lord Jesus Christ to pray for others the way He prayed for us.

Be encouraged and look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

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Babylon Go’on Fall!

Posted on May 10, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace, believers, and greetings to my many enemies.

Today I watched CNN’s coverage of President Barak Obama’s historic “coming out” in support of gay marriage—a first for a sitting president—with great interest, and, to tell you the truth, I wasn’t the least bit surprised.  It was only a matter of time.

With all due respect to our president, Barak Obama is a tool of the Antichrist and a herald of the New Age, as his actions clearly demonstrate.  Though I didn’t vote for Obama, I pay him due deference, because the Bible tells us that we should respect those in government, and, as the head of the government of the United States, President Obama is entitled to our respect.  But more than that, President Obama is entitled to—and very much in need of—our prayers.  The man is in profound darkness.

What was remarkable about CNN’s coverage of Obama’s coming out was how often the word “evolution” was used with respect to the President’s announcement.  A few of Pierce Morgan’s guests, for example, referred to public opinion on same-sex marriage—including President Obama’s—as having evolved.  And the President himself said that his opinion’s on same-sex marriage were always “evolving.”

Understand that CNN’s repeated references to evolution with respect to gay marriage was no accident.  Evolution stands counter to the Bible on every issue—including marriage, as homosexuals know all too well.  In their belief system, those who hold to the biblical idea of marriage as being exclusively between a man and a woman are deemed to have not yet evolved as far as the rest of the world, and are keeping the world in the Dark Ages.

This is very important, because the centerpiece of evolution is the doctrine of “survival of the fittest,” which holds that some species of animal have not evolved apace with others, and that the weaker, less evolved animals are killed by the stronger or simply die off to conserve resources for the higher evolved.  This idea has been applied by evolutionists to human beings (whom they consider only higher evolved animals) to mean that those humans that have not yet evolved far enough in their thinking should be eliminated for the benefit of the “higher evolved.”  This is what is meant by “the greater good”: that some human beings are burdening society with their outmoded thinking and are simply not viable.  Therefore, they should be eliminated for the benefit of the higher evolved.

To New Agers, this means Christians, who are considered a hindrance to the evolutionary advancement of mankind because of our “antiquated” and dogmatic thinking.  We are thought to be holding back the human race from making the jump to the next step in its evolutionary journey towards perfection.  So is it with the homosexual same-sex marriage movement.  Christians are viewed as the enemy, because we worship the God of the Bible, Who says that homosexuality is an abomination and that marriage is to be exclusively between a man and a woman.  Those homosexuals who support gay marriage, of course, hate God and anyone who loves Him.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson, on the Pierce Morgan show, said that homosexuals are not trying to change the definition of marriage.  But this is a lie, because not only have some homosexuals stated openly that they are, in fact, working diligently to change the definition of marriage, but the homosexual movement’s efforts to legalize same-sex marriage, if successful, would achieve this very thing.

To illustrate my point, Pierce Morgan today interviewed the head of the Catholic League and a homosexual gentleman who was for same-sex marriage.  The proponent for same-sex marriage said that the only criteria for marriage should be that the two people love each other, while the president of the Catholic League said that the danger in this is that if state constitutions (or, God forbid, the Constitution of the United States) were altered to reflect this thinking, there would be no way to prevent a brother and a sister from marrying.  This would amount to government acceptance of incest.  And he is absolutely right.

But there is a greater danger.  If marriage were redefined as merely a civil union between two people who love each other, then there would be nothing to stop an adult from marrying a child, or even worse, an animal.  There is a clear and present danger in this, because Humanism, evolution, and the animal rights movement, to name a few, all believe human beings to be nothing more than a higher evolved species of animal. Conversely, the animal rights community is pushing for animals to be granted the same rights as human beings.  This would make animals “persons” in the legal sense and pave the way for human beings to have the right to marry them.  

Clearly then, the same-sex marriage debate has farther-reaching implications than appear on the surface.  The end game is not only to redefine marriage, but to ultimately do away with all prohibitions against homosexuality, pedophilia, bestiality, and all immorality: in short, to eliminate all of God’s rules.  This has Satan written all over it.

Moreover, homosexuals say they only want the rights that all heterosexuals enjoy, but what they are actually doing is trying to get rights that no one else has.  This is wrong.  

Homosexuals have been planning this for a long time.  That is the reason for the media’s incessant coverage of divorce statistics and child abuse among married heterosexual couples.  Pierce Morgan, playing devil’s advocate, cited those very issues when asking the head of the Catholic League why loving homosexual couples should not be granted the same rights as heterosexual couples.  We have been set up.

So, if you are a Christian, but you support same-sex marriage, I implore you to rethink this issue very carefully.  Same-sex marriage—all the feel-good, oneness rhetoric notwithstanding—is not the will of God.

“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination” (Leviticus 18:22).

“If a man shall take his sister…it is a wicked thing…they shall be cut off in the sight of the people” (Leviticus 20:17).

“Neither shalt thou lie with any beast to defile thyself therewith: neither shall any woman stand before a beast to lie down thereto: it is confusion” (Leviticus 18:23).

Thus saith the Lord.

The Still Man

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Joseph Kony, CNN, and the New World Order

Posted on May 9, 2012 by The Still Man

For the past few weeks, I have been watching CNN International and keeping up with the latest news stories.  Two stories that CNN International has been covering extensively are the alleged abuse of children by Uganda’s Joseph Kony of the Lord’s Resistance Army and the alleged rape of a mentally challenged girl by a group of boys in Cape town, South Africa.  Both stories are out of Africa, which I find very interesting.

Kony has been accused of forcibly conscripting children into military service—including young girls—many of whom have allegedly been used as sex slaves and child wives for Kony himself.  CNN’s extensive coverage of Kony has been supplemented by an anti child-conscription commercial depicting what appears to be a one-room elementary school in Africa, which is suddenly accosted by a group of armed men in military attire, who storm into the school, select a young male, and quickly load him onto the back of a military vehicle before driving hurriedly away.

Additionally, YouTube has a video dedicated to Joseph Kony called Kony 2012.  I was not aware of the extent of the global media coverage of Kony until I saw Kony 2012.  I could not believe, given the atrocities that have been committed against American children (such as those that came to light during the investigation into the Franklin Savings and Loan, outlined in the book, The Franklin Coverup), that the media has been so consumed by the actions of an obscure African warlord halfway around the world.  It just didn’t feel right.

Please don’t misunderstand me.  Child abuse of any kind is wrong.  But it just seems to me that the sudden media attention to Kony with respect to this issue is a little suspect under the circumstances.

The case of the mentally challenged girl who was gang raped has also received extensive media coverage.  It is interesting that this incident, which occurred over a year ago, has now generated such intense media interest, given that rape in South Africa has been a huge problem for decades among the European and the black African populations alike.

The media’s intense coverage of these stories is highly suspect—given that the problem of child abuse and enslavement is not restricted to Africa.  Why all this interest in Joseph Kony and child soldiers, when child abduction, child enslavement, and child sex trafficking is going on right here in the United States?  Why all the media attention to the gang rape of a young girl in South Africa, when similar rapes are committed every day right here in the United States?  It just doesn’t compute.

We all know that the media does not exist to inform, but to deform and reform—our thought processes, that is.  The media always try to get us to look left when we should be looking right, or to look down when we should be looking up.  Why should it be any different now?

So what does the media really want with Africa?  Why all the sudden interest in Joseph Kony?  I thought about this today and could come up with no other reason than that someone again wants Africa’s natural resources and that perhaps Joseph Koney is seen as a hindrance.  I wasn’t satisfied with this answer, however, because it doesn’t explain the need for the media.  One would think that the string pullers would want to keep the media attention away from Africa.  So why is CNN and the rest of the media pushing the Kony agenda?

I must admit that politics has never been my strong suit.  But since becoming a Christian I have come to understand that politics is essentially the social application of religion.  What I mean by this is that people usually live their religion.  They legislate their religion, they vote their religion, and they elect into public office those who share their religion (or at least those who share their religious convictions).  Many only socialize and keep company with those who share their religious convictions, and, for many, their religious beliefs guide important financial, business, and personal decisions.  Clearly, religion drives politics.

If religion is the basis for everything we do, and politics is the social outworking of religion, then everything that is going on in the world—including what we see going on in Africa—is based on religion, no matter how far removed from religion it may seem to be.  If this is the case, then there should be some biblical precedent or reference in the Bible that could shed some light on current events, in particular the events taking place in Africa and the media’s intense interest in the Dark Continent.

By the way, if politics is based on religion, then the old saying, “I don’t discuss religion and politics” could not have come from a Christian, because the two go together “like peas and carrots.”  But I digress.

I remembered that the book of Daniel has some things to say about Africa, so I went back to take a look.  The moment I started reading, it began to make sense.  In Daniel Chapters 10 and 11, the angel Gabriel explains to Daniel the meaning of a terrifying vision of the future which God had given Daniel.  That future is the time in which we are now living.  Speaking of the Antichrist, Gabriel says,

“He (the Antichrist) shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.

“He shall stretch forth also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.

“But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps” (Daniel 11:41-43).

Understand that at the time the book of Daniel was written, the country of Ethiopia didn’t exist.  At that time, the term “Ethiopian” applied to all blacks.  Ethiopia means “the land of Ethiops.”  Ethiops was another name for Cush, the son of Ham and the grandson of Noah.  Cush was the father of the dark-skinned races—the Africans.  The biblical Ethiopia, then, is Africa.  Though the Lybians are also descended from Ham, they are not descended from Cush, and that is why the angel Gabriel makes a distinction between the Lybians and the Ethiopians.

So when Daniel says, “the Ethiopians shall be at his steps,” he means that all of Africa will be under submission to the Antichrist.

It is important, at this point, to emphasize my belief, based on the Bible, that the current pope, Benedict XVI, is the Antichrist.  In that the Roman Catholic church has always had the goal of making it’s religion the universal religion of the world (catholic means “universal”) and the pope the universal monarch of the world, one must consider whether the events going on in Africa have the aim of not only securing the Vatican’s control over Africa and its vast natural resources, but the propagation of Roman Catholicism throughout Africa.  It would also mean wresting control from the Muslims and bringing Islam under the control of the Roman Catholic church, as Islam is the major religion of many African countries.  This would not be a stretch if what Jack Chick alleges in the Crusader comic Double Cross is true: that is, that the Roman Catholic church actually created Islam, which subsequently broke away and has rebelled until today.

This scenario is the only one that makes sense to me.  Consider that Egypt, Lybia, and Syria (all Muslim countries) were relatively stable until last year.  Then suddenly the pipes burst and we were going into Lybia to assist in taking out a sitting head of state that posed absolutely no threat to the people of the United States.  Granted, I am politically challenged, but I could not see the geopolitical ramifications of this move.  Only in view of what the Bible says, does the sudden instability and turmoil in these countries begin to make sense.

With this in mind, could CNN’s coverage of Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army be intended to defame Kony and create an international groundswell of outrage sufficient to justify the UN sending a “peacekeeping” force into Uganda and the Congo to put down Kony?  What (or whom) is the Lord’s Resistance Army really resisting and why does CNN and the media care? 

Saints, we should think about these things and not jump on the Kony-bashing bandwagon.  We should always watch the news with an eye towards prophecy.  Things are often not at all what they appear to be.

The producer of the following YouTube video understands this completely.

Be encouraged and look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

P.S.  As of this writing, media attention has shifted to Yemen, where a connection to Al-Qaeda bomb-making activities, 9/11, and the attack on the U.S.S Cole has been made. “And [Africa] shall be at his steps.”

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Without Natural Affection: Powered Babies As Dietary Supplements

Posted on May 8, 2012 by The Still Man

Dead baby pills: This is ground baby powder which tests discovered is 99.7 per cent human. Credit: The Daily Mail Online

Grace and peace, saints.

Today I read in several online newspapers that South Korean customs officials have discovered thousands of pills containing powered human flesh believed to be the remains of aborted or stillborn babies from China.  Called “rejuvenation pills,” they were discovered in the luggage of tourists to South Korea, and are reportedly taken as a dietary supplement to boost energy and to improve sexual performance.

Some of the babies used in the pills allegedly died in so-called dying rooms: places in China where babies are allegedly left to die because they were born into families that already had reached the one-child limit.  It is reported that more than 17,000 capsules were intercepted as they were smuggled into South Korea last year.

The San Francisco Times reported that tests carried out on the pills confirmed they were made up of 99.7 per cent human remains.  The tests also identified hair and nails and even the genders of the babies used.

The Chinese are known for having a taste for strange and exotic foods and for using alternative remedies such as ground up rhino horns and the dried sex organs of certain animals, which are believed by many Chinese to heighten male virility.  Historically, the Chinese have also consumed human placenta to improve blood supply and circulation.  Many of these remedies are over 2,000 years old.

While this story concerns the consumption of fetuses for health reasons, there are reports that fetuses are also considered a delicacy by many Chinese and that gourmet body parts are in high demand and can even be purchased through hospitals.   The Next Magazine, a Chinese publication, reportedly conducted an investigation into this form of cannibalism.  A reporter from the magazine allegedly viewed an actual fetus being chopped up and soup being made from its placenta.  The reporter was allegedly told by his escort, “Don’t be afraid, this is just the flesh of a higher animal.”

Saints, this is unfathomable.  This horror is the fruit of Humanism, evolution, and the animal rights movement, all of which hold that humans are merely a higher, more evolved form of animal.  This belief devalues human life and exalts animals into the human family.  And as we contend in our article, Animal Rights and the New World Order, the assertion that human beings are just another specie of animal may one day be used to justify human sacrifice and even more horribly, cannibalism.  The alleged consumption of human fetuses in China makes a strong case for this.

Think about it: if human beings are just animals like dogs and cats, and it is legal to eat dogs and cats, then it can be argued that humans should also be suitable for consumption. The Chinese have clearly figured this out, as dogs and cats are to many Asians what chickens and pigs are to Americans.  The consumption of human beings by the Chinese then, is merely the next logical step in the evolutionary process of man: the complete debasing of the human race: a world where the life of a dog has more value than the life of a human being.

Come quickly, Lord Jesus.

The Still Man

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An Unexpected Meeting With Ganesh

Posted on April 26, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace to the household of faith, and greetings to the unbelieving.

I’m still in Germany visiting with my wife and children, and, thus far, it has been a very good visit.  One thing that is for sure is that my presence is greatly needed.  As many of you may know, my wife is not saved, and though she claims to be a Christian, I have always believed she was a Roman Catholic.  This is because of the terminology she uses (such as catechism and the Portuguese translation of “mass,” which she uses to mean church service).  Additionally, Roman Catholicism is the largest religious denomination in her country, and, quite simply, her religious beliefs seem to be based largely on tradition rather than the Bible.  I came to this conclusion during our four-year separation and had always anticipated the day when I would ask her in person to either confirm or allay my suspicions.

Well, on the second day of my visit, I asked her directly if she were a Roman Catholic and was mildly surprised when she admitted that she was, in fact, raised a Roman Catholic, even though she claims to have left the church years ago.  You have no idea how important this was for me.  It confirmed my fears that my wife’s problems are spiritual and stem from a generational curse.  I say this not only because she was a Roman Catholic, but also because her family practiced witchcraft back in Africa, and I suspect even until the present day.

Understand that when a person is under a generational curse, he may have great problems discerning truth from error, as discernment comes from the Holy Spirit.  While a person under a generational curse can become a Christian and be sealed by the Holy Spirit (I was such a person), I don’t believe he can be filled with the Holy Spirit.  He may therefore be susceptible to myriad deceptions.  Because my wife is not saved, and is easily deceived, I warned my children that they should be on the lookout for anything in the house that was anti-Christian.

I did this for two reasons.  The first was because the crucifix is extremely important to Roman Catholics.  As many of you may know, the crucifix, which is a cross with a dead “Jesus” hanging on it, is an abomination in the sight of God: not only because Roman Catholics worship it, making it an idol, but because it is actually a curse because of the dead Jesus hanging on it (Galatians 3:13, Deuteronomy 21:23).  For more information on this, it would prove most illuminating to read our post on Generational Curses.

Because it is a curse, to bring a crucifix into one’s home is to bring a curse upon one’s family.  So I have been concerned for some time that perhaps my wife had a crucifix or other occult object somewhere in the house, for although she claims to have left the Catholic church, she is and will always be a Roman Catholic, unless she repents and accepts the Lord Jesus as her Savior and denounces the Roman Catholic religion.

I have been married to two Roman Catholics, and I can tell you that Catholics worship a number of idols—not just the idol Mary—and are very accepting of other religions, having no problem reconciling them to their Roman Catholic faith.  My wife likes to talk about religion—to everyone but me, of course—and it seems that people are always giving her things, which she, in turn, brings home.  So, I have always had to keep my eyes open and be on the lookout for any religious items that she may bring home.  Because my wife rarely turns anything down, I have had to be especially vigilant.

I had been doing this alone, until one day, when I discovered that one of my youngest daughter’s teachers was giving her class instruction on occult symbols.  It happened on this wise:

One day I was reading the book, The New World Order, by A. Ralph Epperson, which features the all-seeing eye within a pyramid on the cover (a symbol that has been associated with the “Illuminati”).  Suddenly, my daughter points to the pyramid and exclaims, “Papa, my teacher showed us that the other day.”  It turns out their religion teacher had shown her class a gold Illuminati pyramid, which he seemed to characterize as a good thing.  Shocked, I decided that the time was right to explain to my children the war between good and evil and the role that symbols play in this war.

Consequently, my children understand that symbols are deceptive, and they know that certain symbols are, in fact, evil.  Mystery Babylon, as the worship of Nimrod and Semiramis is called in the Bible, uses occult hand signs to communicate.  You may read more about it here.  I had, therefore, enlisted my children’s help in looking out for occult symbols in their home in my absence.  And it has paid off.

A couple of days ago, that same daughter, while helping her mother shred papers, pulled out from her documents a pocket calendar, the reverse side of which featured the Hindu God, Ganesh, the Elephant God.

I was horrified.  Of all the gods and goddesses in the world, the Hindu gods are to me the most demonic-looking.  (By the way, I believe all gods and goddesses are simply manifestations of Nimrod, the son of Cush, and his wife, Semiramis.  One of many pieces of evidence from the above photo that this is true of Ganesh, is the fact that he has a halo, or sunburst behind his head, which identifies him with the sun.  After Nimrod was killed, he was deified as The Sun God.  Thus, many gods such as Apollo, Zoroaster, and Horus, are also identified with the sun and are often depicted with halos or sunbursts over or behind their heads.  And Apollo, Zoroaster, and Horus are all merely names for Nimrod.)

It sent a chill down my spine to know that this image of Ganesh was in my children’s home.  My daughter said that the image frightened her too.  She knew instantly that it did not belong in the house and she brought it straight to me.

I explained to her that Ganesh is a God of the Hindu religion and that there are temples to Ganesh all over India.  Hindis worship the image of Ganesh, which makes him an idol, and the Bible teaches that behind every idol is a demon (1 Corinthians 10:19-20).  Having an image or statue of Ganesh in one’s house, then, even imprinted on a card, could invite a demon into one’s home and into one’s life.

Many physical problems have a spiritual origin and often our problems are the result of sin in our lives.  Though the Bible teaches that all disobedience is sin, there are certain sins that God hates more than others.  God calls these sins abominations.  Idolatry is number one on God’s list of abominations, and many who name the name of Christ unknowingly practice idolatry by bringing pagan images and objects into their homes in the guise of art.  Fifteen minutes in the average person’s home would bear this out.  

A reader, for example, sent me this photo:

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This is the goddess Artemis, also known as Diana, the goddess of virginity and (ironically) sexual love and prostitution.  This lady, having recently converted to Christianity, knew of the Holy Spirit that this did not belong in her home, and she wrote me for confirmation.  

Now, some may say that if one is not worshipping a painting, sculpture, or any other artifact featuring a god or goddess, there should be nothing wrong with it.  You must understand that all gods and goddesses are, in reality, Nimrod and Semiramis, the first king and queen of ancient Babylon.  These two were, and still are, worshipped as gods, which makes them idols.  If you are a Christian, then you want to make it absolutely clear that you worship no other god but the Lord Jesus.

So, I explained to my daughter that because her mother is not a true believer, she is not totally protected from satanic attack.  The Bible teaches that the unbelieving spouse is sanctified by the Christian spouse for the sake of the children (1 Corinthians 7:14).  I believe, therefore, that God protects my wife to some degree.  But God also says that He will “by no means clear the guilty” (Exodus 34:7).  That means that the spouse that is under a generational curse will be vulnerable to certain attacks by Satan, because this is part of the punishment for a generational curse.  This will manifest in some way.

I cast out whatever demon Ganesh may have brought into the house, and my daughter tore the card into pieces and threw it into the trash.  My wife denied ever seeing the card, and perhaps she was telling the truth, but there is no doubt it was with her things.  What was more important was that my daughter learned, in a very tangible and practical way, that the Hindu religion is demonic.  I had never thought to explain this to her, more concerned, as I was, about the Roman Catholics and Muslims among whom she lives.  God, however, in His mercy and grace, provided an object lesson that was better than anything I could ever have thought of.  Ultimately this was an example of how God uses for good that which Satan means for evil.  Praise God for His goodness!

Keeping your home free of occult and antiChrist images and objects should be the concern of every Christian parent, especially if your spouse is a non-believer who practices or has practiced an idolatrous religion like Roman Catholicism, Mormonism, Buddhism, Hinduism, or any form of witchcraft like Santeria or the like, as many of those coming from these religions tend to have idols or shrines hidden in their homes.  Someone with whom I was once involved, for example, used to hide glasses of water that she had prayed over, in various places in the house.  She was also a Roman Catholic and practiced Santeria.  Additionally, she had a small, wooden Buddhist shrine, which she kept in her closet.  There is no doubt in my mind that these had a devastating spiritual effect on her and her family as they experienced many, many problems.

We should not strive to become experts on the occult, but we should have at least a rudimentary knowledge of what is not of God so that we can police our homes to make sure that there is nothing in them that is an abomination in the eyes of God or that blasphemes or dishonors the Lord Jesus.  Satan is working overtime to influence our spouses and children, so we have to be diligent to protect our homes from satanic influence.

The Still Man

P.S. Further evidence that Ganesh is really Nimrod is the fact that one of his tusks is broken.  Is it not strange that Ganesh, who is a god, would have a broken tusk?  A broken tusk is a defect—a blemish—and gods are supposed to be perfect.  Why then, would a perfect god be depicted with an obvious defect?  

It is because the broken tusk is a symbol.  A symbol of what?  you may ask.  Well, tradition has it that Nimrod, the great grandson of Noah, was killed by Noah’s son, Shem, who was Nimrod’s uncle and the father of the Jewish race.  An ancient hieroglyph to show that someone had been killed, or “cut off,” was to show something related to the person as being broken, or cut off.  Usually, it was something straight such as a pole, a staff, a column, or even a sword.  In this case, it is a tusk.  

Ganesh is Nimrod.

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“The Trayvon Martin case is about guns, not race.”

Posted on April 18, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace, Saints.

In our post on the Trayvon Martin case, we predicted that gun ownership would become the primary issue.  And now the Jello pudding man, Bill Cosby, confirms our suspicions. In a CNN interview, Cosby says that the Trayvon Martin case is about guns, not race.   Of course, he was wrong on both counts, as Trayvon Martin is neither about guns nor race, but about our freedoms, or, more accurately, the loss thereof; for the Trayvon Martin case is merely a pretext for the government to disarm the American people by creating sufficient ire in the minds of peace-loving citizens for them to agree to do away with our Second Amendment right “to keep and bear arms.”

Cosby related that he once bought a gun to protect his family, but gave it back, because he found himself pulling out his gun whenever there was something going on outside his home that was not to his liking.  Unknowingly, Cosby identified himself as having a personality similar to George Zimmerman’s whose mindset, according to Cosby, was changed by the presence of a gun in his hands: who felt himself a “hero” because he had a gun.  Fortunately, the vast majority of gun owners are decidedly more mature than both Cosby and Zimmerman.  But the powers-that-be don’t care.

Additionally, Kate Middleton’s sister, Pippa, apparently has her own gun-related problems.  According to media sources, “Her Royal Hotness” was caught in the company of an associate who brandished a gun apparently to frighten off the paparazzi.

Now if you believe that the sister of the would-be Queen of the United Kingdom could possibly be that stupid, then I have some prime real estate in Chernobyl that I’m willing to sell you cheap.  Now we know why Pippa Middleton was made a celebrity and why she was given a reputation as being sort of rebellious.  This has all been planned in advance.

I believe that the gun issue in America and the rest of the world will ultimately be solved by the U.N.  That is the reason the trial of Anders Breivik just happens to be going on at this particular time.  Guns will be at the front of the global “collective consciousness” for the next few weeks at least.  Of course, there will be a couple more shocking gun incidents thrown in just to ensure a worldwide groundswell of anti-gun sentiment.  Disarmament will be promoted as the only way to ensure peace.  And because the media will cover all these events ad nauseum, most well-meaning citizens will agree.

Because most gun owners in America will probably refuse to give up their guns, the U.N. may order a multi-national force into America to disarm the populace and restore order, just like they did in Libya, just like they will do in Syria, and just like they are doing everywhere else in the world.  This, of course, will be accomplished as part of the War [of] Terror.

And atrocities will occur.

The Still Man

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Hello, from Deutschland!

Posted on April 13, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace to my fellow pilgrims and sojourners, and greetings to those who know not wither they go.

You may have noticed that for roughly the last two weeks, this blog has been conspicuously devoid of new material.  That my dear brethren, is because I have been in Germany visiting my children and having such a good time that I haven’t thought to write. Actually I have tried to write, but every time I get into it, one of the kids says, “Papa, did you come all the way over here to sit down in front of the computer?”  or “Papa, are you done yet?” or “Papa, you want me to help?  I know how to type.” or something like that, and I have had to cut it off and play with them.  But I will be back to work soon.  I have not forgotten my responsibility to the body of Christ.

I left right before Easter and so I did not manage to post the article I was working on about the occult origin of Easter and the real significance of Easter eggs.  But I am still going to post it, God willing, in the next couple of days, because it’s good stuff to know.

I have been seriously out of the loop, so I don’t know the current status of the Trayvon Martin affair, but I would be very interested to know how it has progressed.  As a matter of fact, I’ve only watched the news once since I’ve been here, so I’m really out of the swing of things.  But the kids have kinda gotten used to me being here now, so I should be able to slip away (like right now) and get some things done.

Keep me in your prayers, Saints, for the devil has been one busy little bee.  May God’s grace and peace rest on every one of your households.

The Still Man

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The Still Man Wayback Machine: Mar 31, 2011

Posted on April 2, 2012 by The Still Man

Mr. Peabody and Sherman and the Wayback Machine

Grace and peace to my brethren in the Lord, and greetings to the wandering stars.

Today I bring you this article from last march, since I didn’t manage to post it last week. It concerns America, which I believe to be the nation spoken of in Chapter 18 of the Book of the Revelation.  As you may know, God will destroy this nation for its crimes against humanity and against God and His prophets.

I invite you to read it and see if you can understand how I came to this conclusion.

 

America and the End Times 

The Still Man

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Memory Verse April 2-8

Posted on April 2, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace, Saints!

This week’s memory verse comes from 1 Peter 1:13:

“Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”

The theme this week is courage and vigilance.  I love the way Peter puts this.  To gird oneself meant to put on one’s belt, to which one’s sword was usually attached.  In that Peter is speaking metaphorically, we may assume that he means to put on our spiritual armor; to steel ourselves for the task ahead; to get ourselves in the right frame of mind.

He next admonishes us to be sober, meaning to be serious, awake, and aware.  This will not be difficult if we constantly remind ourselves that we are in a war.  Soldiers never have to be admonished to be sober, because they know that if they allow themselves to get lazy and complacent, they could be surprised by the enemy.  Likewise we should always remember that we too are in a war, and we can ill afford to forget it.

Lastly, Peter reminds us why we do what we do: we are waiting patiently for the coming of our Lord Jesus, whom we shall see face to face when we claim the reward allotted us through grace.

Wherefore, Saints, let us gird up the loins of our minds and fight the good fight, until the good Lord brings us home.

The Still Man

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Jesuits!

Posted on March 31, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace to the body of Christ, and greetings to the lost.

Saints, the sand in the hourglass is almost spent, and the fullness of the Gentiles is almost fully come as we are nearing the culmination of time and the coming of the Great God and our Savior Jesus Christ.  

Satan knows his time is short, so he is pulling out all the stops in his insane quest for power and revenge: and his many children are working feverishly to deceive the body of Christ toward that end.

Without question, the most evil of Satan’s children is the Roman Catholic church and it’s diabolical henchmen, the Society of Jesus, commonly known as the Jesuit Order. According to the testimony of former Jesuit priest, Alberto Rivera, the Jesuits are responsible for nearly all the wars that have ever been fought in every country in the history of the world.  The Jesuit Order instituted the Counter Reformation in 1541 to combat the Protestant Reformation started by Martin Luther.  Their goal: to destroy Protestantism and ensure that the pope of Rome is the universal monarch of the world. And with every passing second, they are closer to reaching that goal.

The Bible tells us that the Great Whore of Babylon; that is, the Roman Catholic church, will indeed again rule the world: but only for forty two months or three and a half years. Then the King of Kings, Jesus Christ, will return and the Saints of God shall possess the kingdoms of the world under the authority of Jesus, ruling from Jerusalem and seated in the throne of David.  But before then, Saints, the Church will have to pass through some very difficult times.

Now there are many touting a Rapture who believe that the Church will not go through the Tribulation and will not see the Antichrist.  I can tell you right now that this is patently false as every person on earth who is old enough to read a newspaper or watch and understand the news on television has already seen the Antichrist: for he is none other than the Bishop of Rome, pope Benedict XVI.  

Many will find this hard to believe, because they have been deceived by the ministers of Satan operating within the Christian church.  But this can be easily confirmed by the Word of God and just a little secular research.  I ought to know: I did that very thing and came to that conclusion.

Others have come to the conclusion that the pope of Rome is the Antichrist, including the great reformer Martin Luther, Spurgeon, and a host of preachers and theologians.  If you have read our article revealing the identity of the Antichrist, then you too should have found compelling evidence to support this claim.  But if you still find it difficult to believe that those sweet little nuns, those grandfatherly old priests, and those well-mannered Catholic boys and girls could ever be a part of the most destructive engine of terror in the history of the world, then perhaps this video may help to convince you.

I must first warn you that the narrator, Jim Arrabito, was a Seventh Day Adventist.  Now I’m not going to expend any energy trying to convince you that Seventh Day Adventism is not true Christianity: just the fact that about two minutes into the video Arrabito says that the “woman who rides the beast” of Revelation 17 is “the Roman Catholic church and fundamental Christianity” ought to convince you of that.  

By the way, Mr. Arrabito’s comment is proof positive that every religion that is not of Jesus Christ is opposed to the true Church of Jesus Christ even though they may pretend to want to fellowship with us.  I have found this to be true with Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Roman Catholics, to name a few.

Understand that it is not unusual that there are many who have come into the truth of the Antichrist who are not Christians.  Satan often allows these people to tell the truth about him or one of his organizations in order to lend legitimacy to them.  God also sometimes allows it because He is wooing someone trapped in one of these false religions to Him, and He uses whatever truth there is in such a system to wake them up.  But at the end of the day, their faulty doctrine will manifest itself in some way, revealing them as a counterfeit.

Such is the case with the Seventh Day Adventist church.  What is even more remarkable is that during the course of this video, you will hear two people—one of them Dr. Alberto Rivera—tell Mr. Arrabito that the Seventh Day Adventist church is controlled by the Roman Catholic church.  But he just acts as though he never heard it.  As the Bible says, there are many who are “ever learning, but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.”  Such are “willingly ignorant”—they can’t handle the truth.

Prayerfully watch this video, Saints, and let it indue you with a renewed vigor to witness for Christ during the precious few hours of daylight that remain.

There is only one thing that we must yet endure: the Great Tribulation.  We must prepare our hearts children, as many of us will go to meet the Lord Jesus only after having paid the uttermost farthing.  But let us keep pressing forward toward the mark of the high calling of Jesus Christ.

The Still Man

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Trayvon Martin, CNN, And The New World Order

Posted on March 30, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace, Saints, and greetings to the unsaved.

I have not been following the Tayvon Martin case very closely, because it is a very sad affair.  Since the story broke over a month ago, I had not read more than one story about it, and I had not followed it on the television set, as I seldom watch it.  But earlier this week I went to the store to enjoy a donut and a cup of tasty coffee, and was watching CNN’s coverage of the Trayvon Martin case, when Anderson Cooper interviewed the spokesperson for the New Black Panther Party.  I will tell you that I was at once speechless, angry, sad, and amazed: for this man’s rhetoric was so incendiary as to be completely useless to affect a peaceful resolution to any situation.  His speech was only suitable for war.  And war was what he was talking.

I would be the first to tell you that blacks in America have suffered unspeakable persecution; of that there can be no doubt.  But nothing ever has nor indeed can ever be gained by proposing violence as a solution to this country’s racial problems.  Violence only begets more violence, and the historical record bears sufficient witness to this.  The only answer is Jesus, which presents a problem, because painfully few Americans want to have anything to do with Him.

So here was this man, Mikhail Mohammed, speaking on behalf of the New Black Panther Party telling Anderson Cooper that he was going to “make” the Florida criminal justice system do its job, as though he actually had the power to do it.  And he chose the two angriest looking members of his group to stand on either side of him as a sign to the world just how angry this black group was.  I can tell y0u without any opinion polls or water cooler consensus that this man did not win anyone to his cause except rebels, anarchists, and other angry black Americans.  The man rendered me absolutely dumbstruck with the manner in which he chose to state his case.  It was obvious to me that there were only three possibilities for this man’s behavior on national television.

1.  He is a paid agent provocateur for elements in this country who want to instigate a race war to hasten in the New World Order.

2.  He is profoundly clueless as to the history of black movements in the United States. Just look at what happened to the original Black Panther Party members and even more shockingly, the burning of the Move Group in Philadelphia. (Note: pay close attention to what the narrator says at 11:02.  It is prophetic.)

3.  All of the above.

I and others strongly believe that it has always been the plan of Mystery Babylon to use the blacks in this country to bring about a violent revolution which the puppet masters will use to their advantage.  Charles Manson prophesied just such a revolution which he called Helter Skelter.  The crux is as follows: disgruntled blacks would be agitated, instigated, and incensed to the point of revolt.  They would be armed and funded by the invisible string pullers and allowed to rape, pillage, plunder and eventually take over the government of the United States.  Then the invisible string pullers would take over the government from them.   A group like the New Panther Party is tailor made for such an operation, because, from what I could see of their leader, they are angry enough and sufficiently motivated to do it.

But this scenario would never be allowed to go through to fruition because Mystery Babylon would never allow blacks to take over the United States.  What they would do, however, is allow blacks such as those in the New Black Panther Party to incite violence and mayhem and create a riot situation that they could use to their advantage.  

Remember that Mystery Babylon operates on the Hagelian principle of conflict resolution.  They create a problem so bad that the people would do anything to see it resolved.  They then suggest as a resolution the very thing they wanted to do in the first place, but knew the people would never sign off on.  Such would be the worse-case scenario here.  The government could use the violence created by angry black mobs as a pretext to declaring martial law and sending in U.S. troops to quell the violence.  And once the troops are in place, I guarantee you they will never leave.  Even if it never comes to violence, the mere threat of violence by groups such as the New Black Panther Party could be enough to set the wheels in motion if peace-loving citizens were concerned enough that they pleaded with the government to stave off a potential riot situation.

That is why my ears pricked up when Mikhail Mohammed seemed to imply that violence could be used to see their ends met if the Florida criminal justice system did not take the action he felt was warranted.  Perhaps this is not what he meant, but Mohammed’s claim that the NBPP believes in “a life for a life” would seem to suggest that very thing.  

And not only that, but the NBPP offered a $10,000 bounty for the “legal citizen’s arrest” of George Zimmerman, the alleged shooter of Trayvon Martin.  However, the bounty was condemned and repudiated by Martin’s family and others, including the “Reverend” Jesse Jackson.  Ironically, though Mohammed cited the Constitutional right to a citizen’s arrest, he also added, “I don’t obey the white man’s law, I don’t follow the American law.”

Understand that the scenario that I have just outlined is not only possible but highly probable.  Race division is the most successful tactic Satan ever devised.  When employed it seldom fails, because of the anger some blacks still feel over slavery, racism, and the inequality of the criminal justice system in America, the anger and resentment some whites harbor over the Civil War and the election of a black president, and the fear and guilt of many of both races who feel caught in the middle.

It is this last group as well as the international community that would be affected by the inflammatory rhetoric of the New Black Panther Party.  Understand that Satan hates blacks, Christians, and Jews.  The New World Order will persecute and try to eliminate all three.  But before this can happen, all three groups have to be demonized in the eyes of the world community.  They have to be seen as the only hindrances to the “utopian” world community that the purveyors of the New World Order have been promoting.   That way when the “final solution” is proposed, many will not be averse to it.

That was the importance of Anderson Cooper’s interview with the leader of the New Black Panther Party.  There are few in the world who have not heard of the history of black slavery in America.  For years many have said that slavery was actually a good thing because it “curtailed the inherent evil nature of black people” by keeping them crushed under bondage so that they could not plan nefarious actions.  Hitler said this same thing about the Jews to justify the Holocaust.  

This is crucial.  Many in the world community were and are appalled by the savagery and inhumanity of American slavery and the Nazi Holocaust, and are sympathetic to the historical plight of Jews and Blacks.  But if angry black groups are constantly shown on CNN, which is broadcast the world over, then the international community may come to believe that blacks really are a threat to “peace and security,” and may actually support whatever measures are deemed necessary to “control” them.

Moreover, on the same day I saw this CNN coverage of the Trayvon Martin case, CNN also aired interviews with two well-known black singers: Chaka Khan and Natalie Cole. The Natalie Cole interview was mostly about her friendship with Whitney Houston, but the Chaka Khan interview was all about the Trayvon Martin case.  And I will tell you, she all but said that America is a racist country and that there has been essentially no improvement in the treatment of blacks in America.  Yet here she was, a black female singer, who has made millions of dollars over her long career being interviewed on worldwide TV and BEING ASKED HER OPINION.  She even promoted a single inspired by the Trayvon Martin case.  Yet she totally missed the sublime irony of that moment.

Now what will the international community think if, on the one hand, they hear that America is a racist country that oppresses black people, while on the other hand, an apparently angry black man representing an organization that has been called a hate group (not that it is true) appears on worldwide TV seething with anger and pontificating on racial injustice, followed by a successful black female singer declaring that there has been no improvement in black conditions since the Civil Rights Era while simultaneously promoting her latest single?  I can tell you that there will be no sympathy for black people on the part of the international community, not even for Trayvon Martin.  

And that is the point of CNN’s extensive coverage of the Trayvon Martin case.  This became clear to me when Mikhail Mohammed told Anderson Cooper that he hated to disappoint him by not reacting in the way he felt Cooper wanted, to which Cooper, with a wry smile, replied that he was not at all disappointed, but, in fact, very pleased by the man’s reaction.  Hate-filled speech was exactly what CNN wanted from Mohammed, and he did not fail to deliver.

This is what many are not seeing in this whole Trayvon Martin case. The United States is presently engaged in a “war on terror,” and will be at war until all threats against “peace and security” have been eliminated.  Understand that Mystery Babylon’s definition of peace is “the elimination of all opposition to the New World Order.”  At some point, blacks will be seen as such an opposition, and the whole Trayvon Martin case will be used to demonstrate this to the world.  I have no doubt about that.

And there is a more sinister element to this drama.  You can look for the attention in the Trayvon Martin case to shift from George Zimmerman to his weapon.  Chaka Khan, in the same interview, alluded to this when she stated that Zimmerman wasn’t an official neighborhood watchman, but a volunteer—an armed volunteer.  It will be suggested that if Zimmerman had not been armed, this tragedy would never have happened.  And, again, the weapon, rather than the person, will be demonized and used as a pretext to further (or permanently) disarm the American people.

Understand that since 2008, active duty troops from all branches of the military have been standing at the ready to assist with “homeland security.”  And one of these units is conveniently located at Fort Stewart, Georgia.

I want to draw your attention to this statement from the above report:

“Active-duty soldiers will be part of a force that includes elements from other military branches and dedicated National Guard Weapons of Mass Destruction-Civil Support Teams.”

It is important to understand that President Barak Obama last year communicated a major policy shift in the war on terror when he declared that “lone wolf” terrorists in America would be the administration’s primary terrorism focus.  In this same speech the President seemed to imply that guns are now considered weapons of mass destruction.

If one combines the crucial elements above, that is:

1. active-duty military troops being used in civilian crowd control situations,

2.  that these troops will be part of a force that includes military “Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams,

3.  President Obama essentially calling guns weapons of mass destruction,

then training exercises involving law enforcement and military Weapons of Mass Destruction units begin to make sense.

It is clear then, that there is more to the Trayvon Martin case then meets the eye.  Note that Mikhail Mohammed repeatedly referred to the New Black Panther Party as a “military organization.”  This could be used to justify the U.S. military’s involvement to prevent or quell violence.

That is why, my brothers and sisters in Christ, we must pray that God will not allow Mystery Babylon to use the Trayvon Martin tragedy for their nefarious purposes.  They will have their New World Order, but they don’t have to get it like this.  Understand that if they succeed in using this case as a pretext to declare martial law and send in troops, it will never end.  It will only be the beginning.  For not only will they declare martial law and intern millions of blacks, but they will disarm all Americans and intern millions of non-black citizens as well.  And then the nightmare will begin.

Be encouraged and look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

P.S. An example that CNN is being used to enflame racial tension is that on its coverage of the Trayvon Martin case which I viewed on Monday, March 26, they had one of their “sound experts” clean up the recording of George Zimmerman’s 911 call, which they admitted was being used as evidence in Martin’s murder.  After they “cleaned it up” they aired it for the public.  Now when did it become legal for a civilian news agency to manipulate and broadcast evidence to be used in a murder?  Folks, the New World Order is not coming: it’s already here.

P.S.S. Proof that the Trayvon Martin affair was planned well in advance and is part of the Roman Catholic Takeover of America, is the fact that both George Zimmerman and Rachel Jeantel, Trayvon’s alleged girlfriend, were seen flashing the Cult of Mary hand sign during the trial.

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What (Who) Do The Rapture And The “Curse of Ham” Have in Common?

Posted on March 28, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace, believers.

I’m very sorry that I haven’t posted anything relevant in over a week.  Every now and then, it seems that my head gets so full trying to process the incredible deception that is being perpetrated on the American people, that I can’t seem to write about anything. 

What triggered this latest episode was reading a book called The Coming Christ, written by the president of the Gospel Tract Society, Tom Buttram.  The book deals with Buttram’s interpretation of end times events, and I must say that it is not so much what the book says that concerns me as what the book doesn’t say.  That is because, while The Coming Christ purports to warn the body of Christ of the impending Tribulation, and to give a time line for the most notable events thereof, it totally ignores the subjects that are most important to the Christian, such as the identity of the Antichrist, the identity of the Abomination of Desolation, the Mark of the Beast, and other events leading up to the Second Coming of our Lord Jesus. 

Understand, saints, that prophecy is extremely important.  Jesus told us of those things that are coming upon the world not only for our edification, but also for our encouragement.  The Great Tribulation of the Christian church will soon be upon us, as I am sure you can tell by events being played out in the media every day.   The Lord Jesus has given us a time line of things to look out for so that when these things happen, we won’t be taken by surprise.  The Bible says that God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love, and of a sound mind.  God does not want us to be in fear, so He has foretold in His word everything that is coming. 

The problem is that Satan has his ministers working overtime producing books, CDs, podcasts, etc. that disseminate false information based on false interpretations of Scripture.  Satan’s goal, of course, is to deceive the body of Christ and have us either living in fear of those things that will come upon us, or give us a false sense of security through heretical doctrines such as the Rapture. 

The Coming Christ, for instance, while mentioning the Antichrist, does not even venture to disclose who he may be.  Believe me, the identity of the Antichrist is important to every Christian, because that Antichrist and his false church are very busy right now deceiving billions of people into hell.  And through the Ecumenical Movement, the Antichrist has completely infiltrated the visible Christian church, which has now essentially become one of the many orders of the Roman Catholic church. 

If you have not guessed by now to whom I am alluding, I will tell you outright.  The Antichrist is none other than Pope Benedict XVI and the Abomination of Desolation is the idol that all Roman Catholics worship as the Virgin Mary.  The Bible gives so many details regarding both the Antichrist and the Abomination of Desolation as to make their identities crystal clear to anyone who takes the time to look.  Yet, Buttram completely evades any worthwhile discussion of these subjects.

What further disturbs me about this author is that he says that he received a new revelation from the Lord to the effect that the Rapture theory, which he claims to have held to for decades, is unbiblical; and he does this after decades of producing literature supporting the Rapture.  Now if this man were truly doing the work of God, would it have taken fifty years for God to reveal this to him?  Of course it would not.  God would not allow any of his workers to deceive the body of Christ for fifty minutes let alone fifty years.  Yet this is exactly what Buttram wants us to believe.

Now many will claim that we are supposedly “a work in progress,” and therefore, are entitled to make a mistake or two in our exegesis.   While this may be true to an extent, understand that the Rapture is a clear heresy, as the Bible only teaches a Resurrection.  So while an immature lay Christian could be deceived initially into believing this teaching, this is inexcusable for a Christian tract ministry.  Tract ministries are responsible to God for what they teach and if they are ordained of Him, they will have the Spirit of God and His wisdom.  A God-ordained tract ministry will, therefore, not make this kind of grievous doctrinal error.  Therefore, the Gospel Tract Society, which publishes The Coming Christ, could not be of God.

There is one more disturbing element to this story that may better illustrate my consternation.  Tom Buttram, president of The Gospel Tract Society and author of The Coming Christ, endorses another book on end times prophecy called The Harvest.  Written by John L. Dudley, this book is literally spiritual poison, and I will prove it.  But first, I want to present what Buttram, who reprinted Dudley’s book and wrote the foreword, had to say about it:

 “I took the book, The Harvest home and later picked it up and just opened it to the middle somewhere and started reading aloud to my wife.  As I read, tears began to stream down my cheeks, as the truth I had known, but was yet unable to verbalize was coming off the pages.  My wife said, “Tom, that is exactly what you have been saying,” as she too was wiping away tears.  At that point I couldn’t read fast enough—I read toward the front, then to the back, skipping all around trying to catch up on fifty-five years of being confused” (foreword).

He then added this glowing endorsement:

“[The Harvest] is unlike so many that make claims, this book is anointed, a thrown out treasure brought from days past for the Church today.”

Now let me show you a sample of the book’s “anointed” teaching:

“[Eve] then ate of the forbidden tree, and like Satan, she sought to involve someone else in her sin—Adam.  And the seed has continued to grow in the heart of His descendants to this day. (Note that “His” (Adam’s) is capitalized as one would do for a deity.) 

“The seed was carried through the Flood by Ham and demonstrated to the world through the nations that he fathered.[1]  The point I wish to make, however, is that through the descendants of these two men, God has taught us the nature of the two seeds. 

“The Lord has used the descendants of Ham to teach the nature and fruit of the tare, as he has also used the descendants of Shem (Israel), to teach the nature and fruit of the wheat” (p. 15).  [Footnote and CAPS in the original.]

It is interesting that the author claims that Ham and his descendants are the manifestation of “the seed” of evil as the result of Adam and Eve’s sin.  He completely skips over the very first manifestation of their sin in the Bible: the murder of Abel by Cain: an incident that is highly significant, because it emphasizes death as the ultimate result of sin.  For not only will sin lead to our own deaths, but it was our sin that hung Jesus on the cross and murdered Him.   Yet, Dudley, in his zeal to personify sin as the descendants of Ham, conveniently overlooks this. 

This illustrates the author’s faulty exegesis, because in the first place, the “seed” spoken of by God in Genesis 3:15 is a spiritual seed as Satan is a spirit, and, therefore, cannot produce offspring.  Dudley clearly recognizes this as he says on the following page that “the father of the seed they (the religious leaders of Jesus’ day) bore was the Devil” (p. 16).  It is clear, then, that he knows that the seed was spiritual and not physical.  Why, then, does the author make the following comment in the footnotes found on page 98:

“Ham fathered Canaan, Babylon, Egypt, Philistim (the Philistines), Sodom, Gomorrah, and a host of other nations which inhabit Africa.  They all have a history of heavy involvement in immorality and the occult. 

“These nations have fathered multitudes of idolatrous religions, incorporating the most grotesque sins which have been an abomination to Jehovah (the Lord God).  The Scriptures speak of them with negative connotations, and infer their eventual demise. 

“To state that all of the descendants of Ham are wicked would be as incorrect as stating that all of the descendants of Shem are righteous.  However, the immoral character of Ham was recognized by his father Noah, and that immoral character occasioned the curse which follows the descendants of Ham to this day (See Gen. 9:25).”  [Parentheses in the original, boldface mine.] 

This is just flat out false.  Not wrong, false: false in the sense that it is contrary to the Word of God.  The author cites Genesis 9:25 as the source for his claim that God placed a curse on the descendants of Ham.  This is untrue, as Genesis 9:25 reads:

 “And [Noah] said, Cursed be Canaan, a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.” 

Ham fathered several sons:

“And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan” (Genesis 10:6). 

As you can see, God only cursed Canaan and his descendants, not Ham and all of his descendants.  Proof of this is the fact that God drove out all of the Canaanites from the land that ultimately became Israel (Deuteronomy 18:12-14).  This was the fulfillment of the prophecy.  Moreover Sodom and Gomorrah, which the author mentions in the same breath as Africa, were part of Canaan:

“And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest unto Sodom, and Gomorrah…” (Genesis 10:19). 

As one can plainly see, it was Canaan who was cursed by God, not Ham, nor his other sons. 

Africans and American Blacks are descendants of Ham, but through his son, Cush, not Canaan.  In fact, until the mid twentieth century, most archeologists and historians referred to Africans as Cushites.  These two false doctrines: that blacks are the descendants of Canaan, and that God cursed Ham, when He really cursed Canaan, were used for many years to justify slavery and racism.  Those who advocated enslaving the Negro justified their beliefs by promoting the lie that slavery was the manifestation of God’s curse on Ham.  And now this poisonous doctrine has reared its serpentine head in the twenty-first century.  And through whom?  A so-called Christian ministry! 

What angers me most is that Tom Buttram, of the Gospel Tract Society, claims to have had his eyes opened by God, yet he cannot see a truth that is as plain as the nose on his face.  Can a man of God be capable of such marvelous blindness?  I highly doubt it.

What is the significance of this?  Understand that racism is of the devil, and though Satan hates all humanity, he hates blacks and Jews more than everyone else.  And if Satan hates blacks and Jews, then his ministers and ministries will also hate blacks and Jews.  I have seen Satan’s hatred of the Jews manifest for years in the “Christian” church as Replacement Theology and the Black Israelite cult, but I had yet to see it in the modern church.  With the release of The Harvest, reprinted and endorsed by the Gospel Tract Society, this has now been accomplished. 

“The Curse of Ham” actually accomplishes two things: not only does it help spread false doctrine concerning the black race, but it also helps to discredit the Christian church by demonizing Christianity as a hateful religion.  Homosexuals have argued for years that the Bible is hate literature because it condemns their lifestyle, while some New Agers, many of them black, have decried the Bible as being responsible for slavery because of the errant curse of Ham doctrine.  Blacks and gays have united against the Bible before for these same reasons: for example, during the Harlem Renaissance, and again during the civil rights struggles of the 60’s.  The reemergence of this doctrine, in the New Age movement, will be yet another opportunity for rebellious gays and wayward blacks to again band together to curse the Bible and Christianity.

Understand, saints, that racism is one of Satan’s favorite tools.  It divides more effectively than probably any other of his methods.  2012 is a big year on Mystery Babylon’s calendar, and they fully intend to put the finishing touches on their plan to bring in the Kingdom of Antichrist.  So you can look to see more vitriol spewed against blacks and Jews and more incidents of “racism” and race hate as Satan sets the stage for the final persecution of his old enemies: the blacks, the Jews, and the Christian church.  The Trayvon Martin case is being used for precisely this reason.

So as you can see, there is much reason for concern, and for this reason, I have been groaning in my spirit to learn that yet another ministry I once supported may actually be a tool of the devil.  Add this to the discovery of occult hand signs on one of Jack Chick’s tracts and the realization that he too, espouses the Rapture theology, and you can see how this would affect me, even though I know that as Satan himself appears as an angel of light, so shall his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness.

I am slowly emerging from my shock-imposed lethargy and will try to start posting regularly.  But the focus of this ministry may change somewhat.  Since Satan’s ministers are working feverishly to deceive the body of Christ by distorting or avoiding all teaching on prophecy, it may be necessary for me to also expend an inordinate amount of energy to properly teach biblical prophecy to the end that the body of Christ will be edified, energized, and encouraged.  But instead of putting it in a book as I had before said I would do, I will make everything available on this site.  I am still trying to figure out exactly how I will do this, but God willing, I will do it.

In the meantime, avoid the books The Harvest and The Coming Christ.  If you still choose to read them, be very careful to do so under the guidance and protection of the Holy Ghost, lest you too be deceived.

P.S. Remember how Dudley capitalized the “h” in His when referring to Adam?  As I said, one would normally do this for a deity.  Did you know that Mormonism, the religion of presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney, considers Adam God?  Look it up.  If Dudley is a Mormon, then his adherence to the blasphemous Curse of Ham doctrine is totally understandable, given that Mormonism also teaches that blacks are cursed.  Don’t believe it?  Then get the book, The God Makers.  It will open your eyes.  You may also want to check out the following video produced by the author of the book.

The reader may also find it interesting to note that Independence, Missouri, home of the Gospel Tract Society, is also home to the international headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints—the Mormons.  In fact, Independence, Missouri was founded by Mormons.

Now with this in mind, was Dudley’s capitalization a typo or an intentional homage to his god?  You decide.  

P.S.S. 7/19,2013.  Pope Francis, the newly installed Jesuit pope, is the biblical False Prophet, while the Mark of the Beast, I believe, will be the seal of the Papacy: the so-called Keys of Saint Peter.

Be encouraged and look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

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Man, You Don’t Know Jack!

Posted on March 19, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace, Saints.

Chick tracts have been around for decades now.  The first time I saw a Jack Chick tract I was around sixteen years old.  My father, who was an associate pastor, ran an electronics repair shop where he also sold Christian literature.  Once, while helping him to clean the shop, I picked up a comic book that told the story of a former Spanish Jesuit priest who exposed the plans of the Jesuit Order and the Roman Catholic church to take over the world.  I was to learn later that this man’s name was Alberto Rivera and his story was told in the “Alberto” series of comic tracts by Chick Publications.  I never forgot that tract.

Chick tracts are great witnessing tools.  As a matter of fact, it was the Chick tract, This Was Your Life that led to my salvation.  Chick tracts use scripture references from the King James Bible, which I personally believe is the inspired Word of God, and they apply doctrine accurately in most cases; most, I say, but not all.

Besides being great evangelism tools, Chick tracts are great for learning scripture, especially for kids.  They love the cartoons, and I always left an open box of tracts on the dining room table for my kids to read, and I would encourage them to look up the Bible verses they found in the tracts and to try to commit them to memory.  

I have passed out thousands of Chick tracts both in the U.S. and overseas for over seven years now, and I trusted them.  So imagine my surprise when I saw this in the Chick tract, Why Is Mary Crying?

Notice the hand of the angel.  It is painfully obvious that the curious position of the middle fingers means something, and that something is not Christian.  If you read our post Occultism and the Christian Church, you understand that this hand sign is in widespread use these days, especially in Hollywood. Opinions are mixed as to what it means.  Some say it is the “M” for Mason, while others say it is the “El Diablo” hand sign with the middle fingers straightened rather than curled. But I think it is actually a sign for the Antichrist, “the number of the Beast.”  And that number is 666.  

You see, the Greek (as well as Jewish) letter that corresponds with the number six is “V.” So the Jewish and Greek numeric counterpart to VVV is 666, the number of the Beast. Now notice that the fingers of the angel form three Vs.  Interesting, is it not?

UPDATE: We now understand that this hand sign is related to the worship of Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod and queen of ancient Babylon.  Semiramis has also been called Ishtar, Ashtoreth, Isis, Lakshmi, Diana of Ephesus, and many, many other names.  Today, she is most commonly known as the Virgin Mary.  

Read more about the Cult of Mary here.

This hand sign is growing in popularity, especially in Hollywood.  Among those who have used this sign are:

Regis flashes occult sign

 

Any Winehouse pays homage to Satan

 

Whitney Houston displaying occult hand sign

Needless to say, I was somewhat shocked at this development and, even though I knew something was not right, I shrugged it off and decided that perhaps—just perhaps—I was not seeing what I was seeing.  That was, until I came across this page in the same tract:

Mary displays a curious hand gesture

Notice the middle fingers of Mary’s hand.  Aren’t they in the same position as the angel’s and the others’? Can this be purely coincidental?  I think not.

Now, there have been many who have attacked Jack Chick for various reasons, and I have always defended him, because the attacks have always been against his theology.  Only one person I know of has ever attacked Jack Chick’s person, and that person alleged that Jack doesn’t give credit for other artists who do the illustrations on his tracts, but instead always uses his own name.  Whether this is true or not, I cannot say.  The point is that no one, to my knowledge, has ever accused Jack Chick of being anything other than a Bible-believing Christian even if they disagreed with his theology.  

Never before have I ever heard it alleged that Jack Chick was into the occult.  But if he is not, then why this obviously occult hand sign?  If he does employ other artists to do the illustrations, then it could very well be that someone else is responsible for these occult images.  But since Jack Chick’s name is on the tract, the responsibility ultimately lies squarely with him.

I prayed for months about whether I would share this with the body of Christ, and I finally decided I would for the following reasons:  

For one, Satan is very cunning, and in many cases, he controls both opponents.  For instance, If he wants to make a false prophet look authentic, he will set up an enemy for him who will attack him incessantly.  Christians will believe that the enemy is attacking the person because he is speaking the truth, and they will come to his defense, thus establishing his legitimacy.  

Satan will also direct a false prophet to attack a known enemy of the Christian church (such as the Roman Catholic church) to make that person look legitimate.  When Christians see the false prophet attack the enemy, they will believe he is a man of God standing up against the enemy, while, in all actuality, he is controlled by the enemy.  

At this point, I should add that this hand sign seems to have some connection with the Roman Catholic church, as one can clearly see in the images below:

The Virgin Mary flashes an occult hand sign

A Catholic saint flashes an occult hand sign

Pope Benedict XVI flashes satanic handsigns

Coincidence?  You must decide that for yourselves.

Another reason I decided to release this information is because I witness to Roman Catholics, many of whom are into the occult.  If I were to give this tract to a Roman Catholic who is practicing the occult and he sees this hand sign and recognizes it, he may come to think that the Christian church is just as corrupted as the Roman Catholic church.  This could drive this person away from the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  I have already given out quite a few of these tracts to my Roman Catholic neighbors and God only knows how many of them saw this and rejected the Gospel because of it.  If you are a person who also witnesses to Roman Catholics or was considering doing so, you now know not to use this tract to witness to them.

In case you hadn’t noticed, Satan’s followers are getting ever bolder flashing these Satanic hand signs.  Maybe five or ten years ago no one would have noticed this, but, because Satanic hand signs are everywhere now, the chances of it being seen have increased many fold.  Who knows if it were Satan’s plan all along to display this hand sign in a prominent place in this tract, where it would be recognized by the body of Christ.  Since it is Satan’s aim to destroy Christianity and all Christian ministries, Satan could use this tract as an instrument to destroy the faith of Christians in one of the few ministries that was thought to be faithful and true to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  This could even destroy the faith of some Christians.

With me revealing this information to you, however, the chances that your faith will be destroyed are almost zero; for you see, I am not going to tell you to stop using Chick tracts.  That is because Chick Tracts do contain the Gospel and they do win souls.  As I said, it was partly due to a Chick tract that I came to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Chick tracts work.  However, now that we see that there is antichrist imagery in at least one Chick tract, we should be careful to closely examine any tract we get from Chick Publications to make sure that there are no occult images.

We should also check to make sure that the doctrine is sound, which brings me to an allusion I made earlier: that is, that Jack Chick’s doctrine is not always sound.  Chick Publications believes in a pre-Tribulation Rapture, which is totally inconsistent with Scripture.  And not only is a pre-Trib Rapture unscriptural, but Rapture theology in general, as the Bible only teaches a Resurrection.

One error of Rapture theology is that it purports that Christians will all just disappear inexplicably, and Jack Chick espouses this theology.  This image is from the tract, Things To Come:

Things to Come

“The Rapture is coming.”  This is a good example of faulty theology.  The Bible does not teach a Rapture, which only involves the living, but it does teach a Resurrection, which involves the living and the dead, both of which will go up to Heaven to meet Jesus:

“Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them (the dead) in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air..” (1 Thessalonians 4:17).

The Rapture is the first lie promoted in this tract.  The second is that the living, who “are alive and remain” at Jesus’ coming, will disappear “in the twinkling of an eye.”  This is false.

Our bodies are shaped in iniquity from original sin.  When we were converted, we became new creatures in the spiritual sense, but our bodies are still sinful and cannot get into Heaven (1 Corinthians 15:53-54).  The dead saints, therefore, will get a glorified body without sin, and the living saints will be changed in an instant, and their sinful bodies glorified.  This will be done so that we will be permitted to come before a holy and sinless God.   Therefore, 1 Corinthians 15:52 does not say that the living saints at Jesus’ coming will disappear in the twinkling of an eye, but that they will “be changed” in the twinkling of an eye.  This is the entire passage:

“In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we (the living saints) shall be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:52).

It is clear that this passage is talking about a resurrection and not a rapture, for it involves the living and the dead.  And as one can plainly see, the living will be changed in the twinkling of an eye: not disappear.  How Jack Chick can misinterpret a passage as clear as this beggars the imagination.  This is what the apostle Peter meant when he said that the false prophets wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction (2 Peter 3:16).  It is a perfect example of how taking a word, phrase, or verse out of context can lead to a faulty interpretation of Scripture and even heresy.  

Rapture theology also teaches that Christians will miss the coming great persecution of the Church by the Antichrist during the Tribulation.  Besides being patently false, this teaching is very harmful, because it promotes selfishness and gives Christians a false sense of security.

So as you can see, at least one Chick tract contains occult images in a Christian context, which is blasphemous, and at least one other espouses a faulty doctrine.  What does that mean for those Christians, such as myself, who use Chick tracts?  I will tell you this.  If you can find a better evangelism tool that doesn’t have these issues, by all means use it. But if you cannot, my advice would be to choose your tracts very carefully and examine them under the lens of the Holy Spirit.  A Chick tract introduced me to the Gospel and I got saved.  They do work.  That said, it would behoove the discerning Christian to take care when deciding which tracts to use in his evangelism efforts.  It could make the difference between winning a soul to Christ or consigning a soul to the Pit.

Be encouraged and look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

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Memory Verse for March 19-25

Posted on March 19, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace, Saints.

We are sticking with the theme of fear.  Our memory verse for this week is Psalm 4:8:

“I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.”

I can personally relate to this verse.  Those of you who have read Chronology of Joy and God is in Control, know about the spiritual warfare I have been involved in for years, and that a major part of that warfare involves attacks upon me by the powers of darkness using electromagnetic resonance weapons and noise campaigns.  There was a time early on when, because of these attacks, I was lucky to get two or three hours of sleep at night, or any sleep at all, for that matter.

Now I know that God loves me, and that if He allows me to go through something, it is for a reason.  So, I would ask myself (and Him) why it was the He was allowing my enemies to rob me of sleep.  I realized that one of the reasons was for me to understand that God holds the power of sleep.  

Recall that there are several times in the Bible where God causes men to fall under a deep sleep.  He caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep when he took out his rib to make Eve.   He caused Abraham to fall into a deep sleep and gave him the vision of the Christian church and Israel’s future enslavement.  He caused King Saul and his men to fall into a deep sleep in the cave so that David could steal his spear and cruse of water.   And He caused Peter’s guards to fall into a deep sleep so the angel could take him out of prison. Sleep comes from God.

Besides using EMR weapons to wake me, my enemies would cause so much noise that, when I dozed off, I would awaken suddenly.  It got so bad, that I had to wear earplugs just to get any sleep at all.  Then I would wonder whether I would hear an intruder coming in the house.  

Then God asked me a simple question: Am I not God?  And if I am God, don’t I have both the power to give you sleep and to protect you while you sleep?  I understood that the answer was “Yes” to both questions.  So I took out the earplugs and went to sleep.  And I have never used them again.  Even when the enemy wakes me up (and sometimes this is several times a night) I manage to go right back to sleep; and when I can’t, I get on my knees and pray, so that even those times are used in spiritual warfare.  So I can’t lose. And that is exactly what God wanted me to understand.

So, lay yourself down in peace and fear not, knowing that the Lord will keep you during the night watches.  He will make you to dwell in safety.

 

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Give Me Water

Posted on March 16, 2012 by The Still Man

“Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith unto thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water” (John 4:10).

Grace and peace to the saints of God, and greetings to the household of darkness.

I just took a bath a little while ago, and I can tell you, it was almost a religious experience.  The water was just the right temperature, and my body was somewhat sore from my morning workout.  So it was just the ticket.  I even dozed off a couple of times.  

I realized that today was the first time in over four years that I have just sat in the tub and soaked.  I used to do it at least once a week for therapeutic reasons.  Besides being necessary for life, water is good for the body and mind.  But for some reason, since coming back to the U.S. from Germany four years ago, I haven’t spent more than ten or fifteen minutes in the tub, and as I sat there, I tried to figure out why.   It occurred to me that my whole attitude towards water has changed in the last ten years or so.  

Though I have been blessed to have had access to potable water and the ability to take baths all my life, when I lived in Germany, I gained a new appreciation for water.  I remember the exact day that my attitude towards water was changed forever, and it happened on this wise:

I was living in Munich at the time and was visiting a friend of mine from Ghana.  As many of you may know, there is a very large contingent of Africans from the Diaspora living in Germany, and many of them live in Munich.  Africans love television, and they love to get movies from their own countries.  As a matter of fact, making movies for those in the Diaspora is a major industry in Africa.   Whenever I would go to visit my friend—Bobby was his name—he was sure to be watching a movie from Africa or Jamaica.  And Bobby had very good taste in movies.  We would go through a couple of movies in a sitting, and no matter what time I told my wife I would be home, I was sure to need a phone call from her to remind me.

Well, on one visit to Bobby’s, he was watching a movie from South Africa.  The storyline involved a schoolteacher from one of the larger cities who goes to a small town to teach, and the challenges that the job and the move presented.  On the day she arrived, a small contingent of her new colleagues came to pay her a visit.  They knocked on the door, and after kissing one another on the cheek and asking each other’s welfare, they presented her with a housewarming gift.  Do you know what it was?  A bottle of water.  And she was very happy to receive it.  I asked my friend if it were common to give visitors water as a present, and he told me that water is so precious, that he would not be surprised if it were.  

That revelation changed my life.  I had never heard such a thing, and I realized that I had always taken it for granted that water would always be plentiful, potable, and accessible. It had never occurred to me that there were places on earth where water is so scarce that it is makes a suitable present.

From that day forward, I had a completely different attitude towards water.  I try my best not to waste it.  For instance, I like taking baths rather than showers.  That is because as a child, we did not have a shower, but only a bathtub, so I was raised taking baths.  My first shower was in the Army where there were nothing but showers.  It was exciting.  I thought I would never again take another bath.  But all that changed one night while I was stationed in Panama in the early eighties.  [Queue flashback music.]

One night I and my unit were on a reconnaissance mission and had trudged through the jungle for many hours.  At around 2:00 a.m. we stopped at the point where we were to hook up with another unit, and we all lay down to rest.  After sitting there for about an hour, it began to rain.  And rain.  And rain.  And rain.  And it was a cold rain, made worse by the fact that our pores were still open from having walked so long in the sweltering jungle heat.  At first it was refreshing, but after an hour it became torturous. We lay there on the ground for close to three hours under that unrelenting rain, when I realized that I could no longer feel the rain falling on me.  My skin had become waterlogged, and my core temperature was so low, that I could no longer feel the difference between my skin and the rain.  It turned out that others were in the same predicament.  Such a situation can get terminal in a hurry.  We had to get moving.

While they were making the decision to leave, I told a friend of mine that I would give anything for a hot bath at that moment.  Minutes later, the word came down, and we made a beeline for the barracks.  We got there with a speed that would make Usain Bolt look like Scatman Caruthers.

Since that day, I have rarely taken a shower.  I have been living at my present address for three years, but I have only taken one shower.  And since baths consume a lot of water, I bathe only a couple times a week, so that I will not waste water.  It is no longer a conscious decision but an automatic lifestyle choice.  I do it because I know that there are those in the world who cannot take full body baths, but must wash out of a basin or bucket.  I know that what I do will never affect them, but it keeps me mindful of them and helps me to identify with them in some way.  Ever since I was a child, I would let the water run from the faucet while I brushed my teeth, but no longer.  And I keep a couple of bottles of water in reserve in case the water should get cut off.  Water is precious.

These things occurred to me as I sat in the bathtub.  Water is precious: it is essential to life.  Do you know that water is more important to the human body than food? The body is two thirds water.  One may go without food for a month and live, but few can go that long without water.  Water is a blessing.  But water is so plentiful in America that we take it for granted.  How often do we thank God for giving us water?  We need water more than we need most of the things that we ask God for, yet that which is most necessary to life, God has already provided; and we fail to thank Him for it.  

Water is also one example of the goodness and mercy of God and how He blesses both the righteous and the ungodly, as God provides water to both unconditionally.  

Consider this the next time you take a bath, or drink a glass of water, or brush your teeth, or wash the dishes.  Where would you be without the blessing of water?  As you read this, give God thanks for having provided water to you all the days of your life, even though you may never have thought to thank Him for it.  And say a prayer for those who live in places where water is scarce.

And while you’re at it, thank the Father for giving us all The Living Water, the Lord Jesus Christ.  

You can keep your money.  Just give me Water.

The Still Man

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New Podcast

Posted on March 14, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace Saints.

The companion audio podcast to our article What Is The Unpardonable Sin? is available for free at the iTunes Store.  You can listen to it by clicking here.

The “unpardonable sin,” as it is called, is blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, which our Lord Jesus mentions in Mark chapter 3.  There are many opinions about what actually constitutes blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, but you will find from the podcast that it is a simple matter to discover what it really is.  You may be surprised.

As always, the podcast includes information that is not in the article, making it an essential resource.  

Be encouraged and look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

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Deceitful Workers: Denzel Washington

Posted on March 13, 2012 by The Still Man

“Family Man” Denzel Washington

Grace and peace to the brethren. 

You know, most people think that Denzel Washington is one of the cleanest actors in Hollywood.  I mean, you never hear about Denzel getting in trouble with the law, you never hear about Denzel getting in trouble with drugs, you never hear about Denzel being found with a prostitute, and you never hear about Denzel having marital problems. Denzel just seems like a clean-cut, hard working, family man.

But you know that somewhere along the line Denzel has to have sold out.  He had to, otherwise he would not be an A-list actor.  You cannot be an A-list actor unless you have sold out.  Denzel won an Oscar for Training Day, and he would not have won an Oscar had he not sold out in some way.  You didn’t think he won it solely on the strength of his acting performance, did you?  

But if Denzel doesn’t do drugs (ostensibly), doesn’t chase women (ostensibly), doesn’t cavort with prostitutes (ostensibly), and doesn’t get in trouble with the law, how do I know that he has sold out?  You might ask.  

Well, consider the fact that the disgusting N-word has become almost commonplace now. It is used in music, movies, and possibly very soon fashion, as Damon Wayans is working feverishly to found a clothing store chain, the name of which is the N-word.  

By now you should know that when something evil manifests in society, it showed up first in Hollywood, and this is also true with the ubiquitous N-word.  As a matter of fact, Denzel played a major role in this.  Remember the famous “Smoke it!” scene from Training Day?  Recall that Denzel used the N-word twice in that one scene and several times in the movie, if I recall correctly.

When I saw Training Day, I was not saved, but the importance of an A-list black actor using the N-word to describe a white man was not lost on me.  No Sir, it was not.  So, when I started noticing trends in society and tried to put the pieces together, I recalled that Denzel had done this, and I realized he was a sell out.  I present the scene in question from Training Day below for your edification.  Pardon the French that they are using, but there was no way I could get around it.

Now it was bad enough that Denzel degraded himself once in the movie.  But imagine my surprise when I found this video on YouTube which a particular web site had linked to which featured Denzel using the N-word in the same manner that his character used it in Training Day.  Only this time he is saying it to David Letterman!

Don’t think for one minute that was a slip of the tongue.  You know Denzel is not stupid: he had to know that using the N-word on a late night television talk show would spoil his squeaky-clean image.  This is proof positive that Denzel is a sell out.  He does as he is told, just like everybody else in Hollywood.  If he did not, he might as well start looking for another job.  

By the way, did you notice that Denzel asked the rookie cop if he were “a Jesus freak” because he didn’t want to smoke that crack?  Denzel would argue that he was just portraying a character.  But believe me, children are greatly influenced by what they watch on television and in the movies, and this irreverent and blasphemous reference to the Lord Jesus is sure to have been imitated by some kid out there who wants to be cool and hard just like Denzel’s character.

This is why we should not make these people our role models.  There is not one actor in Hollywood that hasn’t compromised his morals in some way, and they have all contributed to the moral destruction of America.  For Mr. Washington’s part, he has earned a coveted spot on our list of Deceitful Workers.

So the next time you hear some kid use the N-word, you can thank among others, Mr. Denzel Washington.  

The Still Man

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New Podcast

Posted on March 13, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace Saints.

We have recorded a new podcast as a companion to our article entitled, Does God Hate Blacks? It is available for free at the iTunes Store.

You will want to listen to this podcast if you want to know THE cause of Satan’s rabid hatred for blacks.  It will also give you a better understanding of the role of blacks in biblical history; a role that is so significant that you will wonder why you were never told anything about it.  But it is one hundred percent biblical.

The podcast also includes important information that we did not include in the article, so it is definitely worth checking out.

Though the purpose of the article and podcast are to encourage those blacks—saved and unsaved—who feel that because of the history of black persecution, God hates them, it is also intended to empower my white brothers and sisters in Christ to address this issue should they encounter it in their efforts to evangelize blacks.  You may even want to direct them to these materials.

As always my brothers and sisters, be encouraged and look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

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Memory Verse for March 12-18

Posted on March 12, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace Saints.

We are still keeping with the theme of fear this week, because things are going on in the world that will instill fear.  But we ain’t having none of it.   

“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He might exalt you in due time:

“Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you” (1 Peter 5:6-7).

Most of us are familiar with verse seven, but verse six is important also.  We must humble ourselves before God, and He will exalt us.  He will take care of us, for He is able. When we encounter problems in our lives, our first instinct is to come at those problems in our own strength.  But God wants us to humble ourselves and come to Him.   Then we can come at those problems in HIS strength.  And the Lord our God is strong and mighty. The Lord our God is mighty in battle.  Let Him fight our battles.

Jesus never gets tired of us coming to Him with our problems.  So cast all your cares upon Him.  For He careth for you.

Be encouraged and look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

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The Still Man Mail Bag: Monday March 12, 2012

Posted on March 12, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace believers and greetings to those who do not believe.

This question was asked by one of our readers:

“Is investing wrong? I would like to learn about investing and do it one day. But is it the same as gambling?”

No, investing is not gambling, so it is not against God’s will for you to invest.  But I would caution you to seek God’s mind before you do something like that, and I will tell you why. The end of life as we’ve known it here in America is fast approaching.  The Bible says in Revelation Chapter 13 that the False Prophet will cause every person in the world (save Christians) to receive a mark on their foreheads and on their right hands, without which, “no man might buy or sell” (Revelation 13:16-17).

So we know that at some point very soon, money will become obsolete.  Now the European Union has already gotten rid of the individual currencies of most of its member nations, the so-called Euro Zone, and substituted the Euro.  The United States, from what I understand, is also planning to bring in a new currency called the Amero.  Now, I was living in Germany when the Euro came in and I can tell you what happened before it was instituted and after, so brace yourself.

About a year or so before the Euro came in, all product price tags had the price of a product in both euros and deutsche marks.  For example, if a loaf of bread cost one mark, below it would be the price in euros, which was roughly half the price in marks or 50 cents (true example).  Most people thought that this was being done to accustom the public to the price difference between deutsche marks and euros.  If this were true, then the exchange rate from marks to euros would be roughly 2 to 1, or two marks for one euro.  So when the euro came in, it is logical to assume that the price of the product in euros would remain the same.  Right?  Wrong!

When the euro came in we expected to see the price in deutsche marks gone, and only the euro price remaining, at the same price we were accustomed to seeing.  But do you know what happened?  True, the deutsche mark price was gone, replaced by the euro price, but instead of the product remaining at the same euro price as before, it was the same price in euros as it was in deutsche marks.  So, for example, that loaf of bread that used to cost one deutsche mark, but 50 cents (or one half euro) now cost one euro instead of 50 cents. In other words, overnight the price of food increased 100 percent!  

And the bad part is that salaries remained the same.  So, literally overnight, your salary could only buy half as much as it could before the euro came in.  This actually happened, and I was there to see it.  People immediately went into debt.  One man passed me on the street distraught, because he was retired and living on a government pension.  He said that now that the euro had come in, after he payed his rent and utilities, he barely had enough to eat.  This man didn’t know me from Adam, but he was so distraught, that he had to talk to someone.

Moreover, what money people had in bank accounts, CD’s, money market funds, and other investments was now worth only half as much as before.  The same was true of any money folks had squirreled away at home.  The media advertised when would be the last day for folks to take their deutsche marks to the bank to exchange them for euros, because the next day they would be worthless.  And, of course, they were.

Now, I have no doubt whatsoever that this will happen in America.  I believe that the excuse to get people to accept the mark of the Beast will be that the problem with the world economy is money.  They will tell us that in order to fix the problem, it would be better to just eliminate money altogether and bring everybody on line with a cashless economy.  That is why the debit card, online purchases, and PayPal have been pushed: to get people used to making financial transactions without handling money.   It’s all designed to get them primed and ready to accept the Mark of the Beast.  And most will.

Now, I’m giving you my opinion based on Biblical testimony and my own personal experience.  I don’t know anything about economics and I am horrible at math.  But I’ve got common sense and I believe my Bible; and I’ve got the personal experience that I’ve just related to you.  So, I’d be very careful with my investments if I were you, because believe me, we are getting prepared for something.  I can feel it.  If we are going to a cashless society—and we are—then in a very short while, a million dollars won’t be able to buy you a pack of gum.

I pray this helps.

The Still Man

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Japanese Tsunami: One Year Later

Posted on March 11, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace.

It was one year ago today that Japan was hit by a 9.0 earthquake followed by a devastating tsunami that ravaged the country’s coast killing hundreds of thousands of people.  Now, one year later, scientists here in America are focusing their attention on a 2000-mile-wide garbage patch that is making its way to the U.S. 

Following are the articles I wrote about the tsunami. 

 

 

 

Japanese Tsunami: A Sign of the Times.  

The tsunami may be only a portent of things to come. 

Japanese Tsunami: The Fields Are White To Harvest.

The tsunami may have been a perfect mission opportunity.

God Did Not Give Us The Spirit of Fear

Did you know that Jesus foretold of tsunamis?  It’s true.

 

The Still Man

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Let It Go

Posted on March 11, 2012 by The Still Man

“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity” (1 Corinthians 13:13).

Grace and peace to my brethren in the Lord, and greetings to the lost.

Most of us are familiar with the story of Job: how he was a righteous man, upright before the Lord, and eschewed sin. We know how God allowed Job to be afflicted by Satan in order to test his faithfulness, and that Job’s friends accused him falsely, saying that God afflicted him because of his sinfulness and self-righteousness. But Job remained faithful until the end, and at no time during his temptation did he ever “charge God foolishly.” As a result, “the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.”

It is no secret that God tests his people, and that often the severity of those trials is proportionate to the measure of our faithfulness.  During these trials, Satan will often use those closest to us to discourage us, as Job’s wife proves:

“Dost thou still retain thine integrity? Curse God and die” (2:9).

We normally only emphasize the last part of this sentence, that Job’s wife said he should “curse God and die.” But we often overlook the first part. Job’s wife asked him if he still retained his integrity. Is it merely a coincidence that God had only just spoken of Job’s integrity at His second meeting with Satan?

“Hast thou considered my servant Job…still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause” (2:3)

No, it is no accident. It obviously chapped Satan’s hide when God said this about Job: that he held his integrity even after Satan took everything he had, including his children.   Satan said that Job would curse God to his face, but Job proved him wrong.

The point I am trying to make is that Satan, angered at this reference to Job’s integrity, used Job’s own wife against him by putting God’s very words in her mouth. Only whereas God meant them for good, Satan used them for evil.

There is a great lesson in spiritual warfare here. Many of us are suffering temptations because of our faithfulness to God. And our friends and loved ones play a major part in this temptation. Oftentimes a friend or family member will say or do something that seemed to come right out of left field. It will be obvious that the intent of the action was not to edify or encourage us, but to hurt us or to make us angry. Our first reaction will often be one of anger, but we should take a moment to examine the comment before we react, because often it will give us a glimpse of the spiritual warfare that is taking place behind the scenes.

Take Job’s wife. Now the Bible says of Job:

“[T]here was none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil” (1:8).

God said these things about Job, not about his wife.  So it is a good guess that his wife was not a God-fearing woman.  But even so, I don’t believe under normal circumstances, she would ever have suggested that Job kill himself.

What? You say. Who said that Job’s wife told him to kill himself? Why, the Bible, of course. What do you think the sentence, “Curse God and die” means? It is a double imperative or a two-part command:

1. “Curse God.”
2. “Die.”

Understand that no one can just die. We don’t have the power over life and death; only God does. So for us to die, either someone has to kill us, we commit suicide, or Satan kills us through sickness, disease, an accident, or some other means.  Under certain circumstances, God simply allows us to die (as in the case of Moses).  In any case, God is in complete control.  

Now Job’s affliction was not terminal. It was not going to kill him, because God specifically told Satan not to take Job’s life (2:6).  Job’s wife knew that his illness wasn’t terminal.  So what else could she have meant when she told Job to die, when she knew that he wasn’t terminally ill? She meant for him to kill himself.

Are we to believe that Job’s wife really wanted for him to die? Of course not. These were not her words; they were Satan’s. And proof of this is that Job’s wife prefaced this suggestion with God’s very words, only twisted.  Job knew this, because he didn’t even address the second part of her comment. He only addressed her admonition to curse God:

“What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God and not evil?” (2:10).

At her suggestion that he kill himself, Job said nothing.  He knew these were not his wife’s words.  So he let it go.  Moreover, Job’s wife told him to curse God.  This is interesting, because Satan told God that if He allowed Satan to afflict Job, he would curse God to His face” (Job 1:11).  Again, this is proof that these words, though said by Job’s wife, actually came from Satan.  

This is important for us to remember.  Satan is going to use those nearest and dearest to us to hurt and discourage us. Why? Because God hasn’t given Satan permission to kill us. Satan has to stop us in some way, and he would prefer to kill us.  But if God hasn’t given him the right to take our lives, he can’t do it. So he will try to discourage us and may even try to get us to kill ourselves, just like he did Job. And he will use our friends and families for this purpose. That is why we must fight diligently not to let them beguile us into saying or doing something that we most surely will regret later. We must learn to let it go.

Think about it: You are going through one of the most difficult times in your entire life, and your wife or husband, who is supposed to stick by you through thick and thin, tells you to kill yourself. What would you do? I can tell you that most of us would say something we would later regret; and we would regret it, no matter how we tried to justify it. Job did not do this, for even after his wife made this suggestion, the Bible says:

“In all this did not Job sin with his lips” (2:10b).

Most believe that this verse means that Job didn’t curse God. Though this is true, it may also mean that Job didn’t go off on his wife after she told him to kill himself, nor blow his top on his friends when they accused him of being a hypocrite.  Job understood spiritual warfare intrinsically, even though he didn’t know the specifics. Job knew God, so, conversely, he knew Satan. And if he knew Satan, he knew his tactics.

What this means for you and me is this: Understand that this warfare is not primarily about our friends and family. It is about us. Satan already has them, and he doesn’t have to do anything special to keep them. He must only feed them a steady dose of the sin of their choice to keep them in bondage.

We, however, have slipped through Satan’s fingers, and that is a problem for him. A faithful Christian is like a bag of seeds with a hole in it. Wherever we go, we are constantly dropping seeds on the road. A healthy seed doesn’t last long on the ground. If a bird sees it, it will come and snatch it up and eat it or feed it to its chicks, and they will be nourished. If an ant finds it, it will take it home and provide nourishment to the colony. And if it finds its way to fertile soil, it will take root and grow. And even if it doesn’t, it will decompose and provide nourishment for other plants.

The point is that a faithful believer is a regenerating agent. When his seeds fall out of the bag, there is no telling what they will do or where they will end up. They may fall in Los Angeles and end up in Japan. This of course agrees with Scripture, which says that God’s Word will not return to Him void. Once the seeds are are out of the bag, it’s anyone’s guess.

Satan doesn’t want to take the chance that this will happen, so he will do everything he can to patch the hole in your bag. And one way he will try to do this is to discourage us through our friends and family. This is actually a two-pronged attack, because not only is he attacking us through them, but if we react the wrong way, he is also attacking them though us. If we say or do something drastic in a moment of anger, we could lose forever the chance to impact them with the Gospel. And that is Satan’s end game. He knows he can’t have us, so he wants to make sure that we don’t get them.

We must be ever on the lookout for this tactic. When Satan comes against us through our friends and family, we must always remember that we are the ones who are saved, not them. Therefore, it is we who must be responsible for our words and actions even if they are not. We must learn to let it go.

Now in order for us to do this, it may mean putting some distance between them and us. Some will do this for us, electing to have nothing to do with us for our preaching the Gospel. They may call us crazy or judgmental, and just decide that they would rather not come around us. Sometimes we get upset at them for this, but it may be a good thing if our being a Christian excites something in them that is not conducive to an amicable relationship.

There are also others from whom we may have to distance ourselves. Some will take offense to this, even if they know that they are the ones with the problem. That’s human nature. But though we are admonished to show ourselves friendly, with some that is not always possible. It is best to part on good terms, than on bad. We must let them go.

The important thing is that when we are treated badly by a friend or relative, we must do our very best to consider the action from a biblical perspective. We are in a war, saints, and everyone and everything that is not of God is a potential weapon—especially those nearest and dearest to us. We must always remember how Jesus prayed for those who crucified Him saying,

“Forgive them Father, for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34).

This is no less true of our friends and family. They know not what they do. They are merely pawns in the hands of a cruel and relentless chess player. And as long as they reject Jesus, Satan will move them in whatever direction he chooses. But he is no match for The Chess Master. In fact, Jesus declared “Check Mate” when He said:

“It is finished” (READ “You are finished.”) (John 19:30).

So, understanding that we are in a war, we have to forgive them just like Jesus did. If we do, we stay on amicable, if not friendly terms with them, and it is always possible, God willing, that they will one day accept the Gospel. And even if they don’t, it won’t be because we were unloving and without charity, which includes pity and understanding. We must let it go.

Job did this. Notice that only three people came to see Job the entire time he was afflicted: Eiphaz, Bildad, and Zophar. Proof of this can be found in verse 11 of the last chapter of the book of Job, which says:

“Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before” (42:11).

What? We didn’t even know that Job had brothers and sisters. Why? Because when Job was going through this very difficult time, they were nowhere to be found. But Job didn’t complain, though it must have hurt him very much to suffer so without the consolation of his family and friends. Job knew that their absence was part of the evil that had been visited upon him. Listen to this:

“[God] hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
“My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.

“They that dwell in mine house, and my maidens, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight.

“I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I intreated him with my mouth.

“My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.

“Yea, young children despised me; I arose and they spake against me.

“All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me” (19:13-19).

Poor Job! You see, we only think of Job’s affliction in terms of the disease, but it went much deeper than that. Job was utterly alone. All his friends and family had forsaken him. And when his three friends did show up, it was only to accuse him, and he was innocent of any crime. Now that’s affliction.

But Job didn’t accuse them, because he knew that this was all God’s doing. It was part of his trial. With all that was done to him, the Bible says Job “sinned not with his lips.” Thus, at the end of his affliction, his friends and family were able to come and console him. And they didn’t come begrudgingly. Listen to what happened:

“And [Job’s family and friends] did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned (cried over) him, and comforted him over all the evil that the Lord had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold” (42:11b).

Everyone who had abandon Job came to him at the end of his affliction and comforted him and made restitution with him. The preceding verse is the key to understanding the change in attitude in Job’s friends and family. Listen, because it is very important:

“And the Lord turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before” (42:10).

Did you see that? God restored Job, but only after he prayed for his friends. Job forgave them for all the evil they spoke of him. Job let it go.

There is a great lesson here for us, brothers and sisters: we who are going through various trials for our Christian witness. It is not a pleasant thing when our friends and family become our enemies because of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We think that if they were truly our friends, then they would not forsake us. We fail to understand that nothing in a believer’s life happens that is not ordained of God. So when our friends forsake us and our families speak evil of us, ultimately it is God who is bringing it about.

Now, I can’t pretend to understand the what and the why of everything that God is doing in our lives. But I do understand this lesson that God has provided for our edification and encouragement. God is ordering our steps. He is bringing it about. So let us not hold grudges against those who do evil to us and spitefully use us. Let us forgive them. Let it go.

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Be encouraged and look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.

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Family Values

Posted on March 9, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

The family that stays together, prays together.  If this is true—and it is—it is no wonder that so many families are imploding today.  We have turned our backs on God.  We feel that we know better than He does what is best for us.  Only we don’t; and we are going to pay dearly for our disobedience.  The New World Order that is taking shape around us is a product of our willful disobedience of God and rejection of His will for our lives.  

Those who are bringing about this “Great Work” call it a “benevolent despotism,”  which, in layman’s terms, means they are going to rule us for our own good.  Only no good will come out of it, as they will micromanage every single facet of our lives and “free will” will become a thing of the past.  In fact, all freedom will become a thing of the past.  Proof of this are the draconian laws that government is already passing, such as to regulate school lunches in order to combat “childhood obesity.”  

We didn’t want a loving, merciful, and caring God telling us what to do, so we will get a cold, impassive, and unrelenting Big Brother that will tell us what to do—for our own good.  William Penn said, “Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.”  Think about this as you watch the following video.  

Remember that nothing that comes out of Hollywood is strictly for entertainment purposes.  If it is not being used for world shaping, it is being used for prophesying: to show us Satan’s vision of the future.  Welcome to the future.

The Still Man

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The Still Man’s Way Back Machine March 8, 2012

Posted on March 8, 2012 by The Still Man

Mr. Peabody and Sherman and the Wayback Machine

Many of our new readers may not be familiar with some of the material on this site from the past year.  So, to keep you from having to wade through all the material, every week I will post the best articles from that week a year ago.

Jesus Christ: Declaring the end from the beginning.

How many of us realize that our Omnipotent God knows everything, including the future?  God is the only Author in history who encourages you to go to the end of the Book to see how the story will end.  

Light: The Best Evidence For A Literal Six-Day Creation.

Can God see in the dark?  If He can, why did He command there to be light at the beginning of the Creation before He created a man and a woman who would need it? Light may be the very best evidence we have for a literal six-day Creation.

Stay Encouraged, And Stay In The Word.

With our busy schedules, it can be tough to read the Bible as we should.  But we should make every effort to do so.  Here are some tips to help.  

Be encouraged and look up, for your redemption draweth near.  

The Still Man.  

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Memory Verse for March 5-12

Posted on March 5, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace Saints.

Starting today we will begin to present a memory verse every week.  You should say these verses with every meal when you give thanks.  Not just when you are sitting at the table, but anytime you eat or drink anything.

Program yourself to say these verses several times a day until they become a part of rote memory.  Write them on a post-it note and stick them on your computer monitor.  Stick them on your refrigerator and on your bathroom or vanity mirror.  Stick one inside your wallet so that whenever you open it, the verse will be right there winking at you.  Stick one on your front door so that before you go out, you can see it and walk out with that verse in your head.  Before you know it, you won’t need the note anymore.

The theme for this week’s verse is fear.  Now most of us know that “God hasn’t given us the spirit of fear, but of power, of love, and of a sound mind (2 Timothy 1:7).”  But it is also nice to know that God is always with us:

“Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest” (Joshua 1:9).

Isn’t that good news?  God is with us wherever we go, so we need not fear.  

That’s good to know in this crazy world.  Things are going downhill so quickly that most people know intrinsically that something is terribly wrong.  Countries are experiencing unprecedented turmoil.  Almost everywhere you turn, someone is rioting.  School shootings are no longer news.  

The love of many has waxed cold.  Parents are killing their children, children are killing their parents, and children are killing other children.  Hollywood glorifies debauchery and immorality and thanks to Harry Potter and Twilight, witchcraft is the fastest growing religion in America.

And on top of all that, there is growing hostility towards the things of God.  The Gospel is being trampled underfoot as America has turned its back on the Lord Jesus.  And the government is passing laws that will ultimately make it very hard for soul winners to fulfill the Great Commission without great risk.  

And as if that wasn’t enough, even nature has lost its mind as floods, tornados, and earthquakes have become almost commonplace.  It has gotten so that when you go to bed at night, you have absolutely no idea what kind of world you are going to wake up to in the morning.  The light has virtually gone out of the world.

With all this, we need to know that God is with us.   This verse tells us that God is with us no matter where we go, so we have no need to fear.  God is ordering our steps.  He will protect us.

So be encouraged and look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

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Jesus Wept

Posted on March 4, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace to the Saints, from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.

I came from a nominally Christian family; that is, we had the form of righteousness, but our lives denied the power thereof.  We weren’t hypocrites, but the only person in our family who really hungered after the things of God was my grandmother.  My mother, unfortunately, did not, and whatever my grandmother built with her hands, my mother would stomp to pieces with her feet (Proverbs 14:1).  She has gone on to her reward: which, I know not, so I won’t belabor this point.  

The point I am trying to make is that there was constant spiritual warfare going on in our house, as my grandmother tried her best to raise us in a Christian environment, only to have her best efforts thwarted.  As a saved man, I can now look back on my childhood and appreciate what a monumental struggle she had with Satan as she tried to give us an appreciation for the things of God and for the good things of life in general, but was woefully inadequate to the task, as we were much too heathen for her.  

God knows how my grandmother must have prayed for me.  I can remember as a young man in the military going to see her when I would come home on leave.  She would be sitting alone in her bedroom, dressed in a nightgown and nestled in her recliner with the Bible on her lap full of handwritten notes and scraps of paper.  I would sit and talk with her for awhile, and I could see in her eyes that she wanted to talk with me about the things of God, but she knew that my visit on those Saturday nights was only to say, Hi before going out to party.  Sometimes I would sit long enough to watch Larry King a bit with her, but it was rarely for more than an hour, and my heart was already through the door and on its way to the club.  

How I wish I could have those days back, but alas, my grandmother has gone on to be with the Lord, and all I have is the memories of those times.  I was closer to my grandmother than I was to my own mother.  When I sang my first and only Gospel solo at my high school Spring Festival, it was my grandmother who came to see me perform.  My mother could not have cared less.  I didn’t know the sacrifice my grandmother had made to be there for me until one of the girls in the choir came and told me that my grandmother was in the bathroom throwing up.  That was love.  That was my grandmother.  I can’t wait to see her in Heaven.  And I will.  

I really hadn’t intended to say this much, but I have been groaning in my spirit this morning about the hardness of our hearts and how it was the patience and perseverance of some Saint praying and interceding on our behalf that led us to repent and get saved. Jesus honored the prayers of that one person often praying through tears on our behalf.  I bless the name of Jesus for His mercy.

What I wanted to talk about today is one of the traditions we had in our family that I never forgot: reciting a Bible verse before eating the meal.  You see, back in those days, we used to pray before eating.  Even if we didn’t pray before eating any other meal of the day, if we were sitting at the dinner table, we were required to pray.  Now, most people merely give thanks for the meal, but in my family, we would recite a Bible verse.   Actually, my siblings and I would recite THE Bible verse, for the only verse we ever learned was “Jesus wept.”  And we were in such a hurry to eat, that we never really said, “Jesus wept,” but, “Jeeswep.”  What irreverent little gremlins we were!

Now, I, my mother, and siblings lived upstairs from my grandparents in a two-family flat that they owned.  (Whenever my grandfather would get mad at my mother, he would tell me how it was his intent to rent the upstairs to someone else so that he would always have some cash coming in, but that they gave it to my mother, because she needed a place to stay.  I don’t doubt this for one minute.)  During the week, my family would eat upstairs, but on Saturdays and some Sundays, we all ate downstairs at my grandparents’.  

It was on Saturdays that I got a chance to hear my mother’s and grandparents’ Bible verses.   There was a time when I could remember all their verses, and as a child, whenever their turn came, I would say their verses in my mind, even imitating their voices.  (Yes, I was strange.)  But, now I can’t remember their verses at all; that is, I have forgotten all but the last few words of my grandmother’s verse, which was, “I can’t understand it.”

I never understood what the purpose was to this ritual, as no one ever explained to me why Jesus wept, and why we were required to orally commemorate what I thought must have been a very sad point in our Savior’s life.  Moreover, I wondered why only the children had to commemorate this day, while my grandfather and mother said something else, and my grandmother was confused about something.  But, confusion notwithstanding, it was a tradition, and children love traditions.

Flash forward to 2006.  I have been saved since September 2005, and I am regularly studying my Bible to know my Jesus better and growing in wisdom and understanding.  I am in John 11, which is where Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead, when I come across verse 35: “Jesus wept.”  I got goosebumps as I realized that it was this verse that I had been saying for as long as I could remember!  I was so happy about my discovery, that I tried to explain it to my three small children.  The problem was that they were only 7, 6, and 4, and their eyes were glazing over and spit running down the sides of my little boy’s mouth as I tried to explain this watershed event to them.  I’m convinced that some of history’s greatest events were only witnessed by four-year-olds with spit running down their mouths.  I’m convinced of it.

Anyway, as I reflected on this, I realized that my grandmother had been trying to teach us Bible verses and had started with what is one of the shortest, if not the shortest verse in the Bible.  It is also one of the most powerful, as it shows our Lord’s humanity.  

As you recall, Jesus wept because Mary, the sister of Lazarus, was crying before Him saying, “If thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.”  The onlookers thought that Jesus was crying because “He loved him.”  But I believe He was crying because they still didn’t fully understand who Jesus was and is and that if they had fully realized that Jesus was God in the flesh, they would have understood that they had merely to ask, and He would have given Lazarus life.  As a matter of fact, they doubted until the moment Lazarus walked out of the tomb.  But I digress.

As I was saying, I not only realized that what I had been saying since a child was in the Bible, but I now understood the circumstances under which Jesus said it.  Powerful stuff.

I didn’t realize the effectiveness of teaching children Bible verses to say at mealtime until 2008, when I and my children came to the States from Germany.  I knew my time with them was going to be short, because of the circumstances under which I brought them to America.  That story is not the subject of this discourse and is much too complicated for me to include here.  But suffice it to say that there was a conspiracy to keep my children in Germany, one purpose of which I believe was to keep them from becoming Christians. Believe me when I tell you that Satan will expend an inordinate amount of energy to prevent a child from turning to Christ or to destroy their faith in Him.  Understand this.

The forces of Satan succeeded in bringing them back to Germany, but not before I preached Jesus to them and got them saved.  Hallelujah!  Believe me when I tell you that the enemy is clever, resourceful, and relentless.  But he is no match for Jesus Christ.

Now, I realized that the reason Jesus had wanted me to bring the children to America was for them to not only hear the Gospel, but to live it.  This is very important.   You see, Germany is a pagan country, as Roman Catholicism, the dominant religion in Germany, is a pagan religion.  It is not Christianity.  Not to speak evil of my wife, but she is not a Christian either, though she claims to be, and goes to church ever Sunday.  I found this out when I once asked her where she thinks we go when we die, to which she replied, “I know we go somewhere, but I don’t know where we go.”  

I want you to understand something:  If you don’t know where we go when we die, then you are not a Christian, because Jesus has told us in the Bible.  Saying you don’t know is calling Jesus Christ a liar.  What do you think the term “saved” means?  It means you are saved from the flames of Hell.  Salvation has come to mean different things to different people, but to the Christian, salvation means just that.  But that is fodder for another discussion.

Now, it was impossible to create the proper Christian atmosphere in my house in Germany, as there were just too many forces in conflict.  When we came to America, however, I was able to live the life that God intends without strife in my home.  As I said, I knew my time with them would be short, so I wasted no time getting the Gospel into my kids, constantly gauging their understanding to know when I should ask them to make a decision for Christ.  I was trying to get them to memorize Scripture, but only one was able to memorize them sufficiently.  

Then one day I remembered the Bible verse I learned as a child, and that we would say it every day at mealtime.  I decided to try this with the kids.  And it worked like a charm.  I gave my little boy, who has learning issues, Psalm 87:1, “His foundation is in the Holy Mountain” as his first verse, and he learned it almost right away.  I gave my teenage daughter from a previous marriage, who had come to live with us, Psalm 66:18, “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.” And I gave my other two daughters their verses.  The plan was to have a different verse every week, but various factors changed this to bi-weekly and sometimes even monthly.  But the important thing is that we stayed at it, and it paid off.

One day I decided to test the effectiveness of the program, so I asked each of the kids to write down ever verse he knew.  As it turned out, each knew about 30 Bible verses!   This was because they not only memorized their own verses, but the verses of their siblings as well, because they would hear them every day.  And not only did they know the verses, but they also knew where to find them in the Bible, as I would allow them to choose their own verses, and they would declare the chapter and verse after reciting it.  This worked marvelously.  An unintended benefit from all this is that I also learned their verses as well as my own.

Now that the kids have been back in Germany with their mother for almost three years, they have forgotten many of their old verses, but John 3:16 and John 14:6 they have never forgotten.  And if there were two verses they should never forget, those would be the two. In November of last year, my thirteen-year-old took it upon herself to choose Bible verses for her and her brother and sister to recite at mealtimes.  So, the tradition continues.  God is good, Saints.

Of course the devil will do everything he can to destroy what God has established in these children, but what Jesus has started, He will also finish.  You can count on that.  The important thing is that the foundation has been established.  And as many of you know, even when a tornado has blown the house down, the foundation often remains intact, and the house can therefore be rebuilt.  But without the foundation, there is nothing to rebuild on.

That is my message to you today, Saints.  Those of you who have children, start right now to get God’s Word into them.  They will soak it up like a sponge; I’m a witness.  God let me hear my little boy at six years old–six years old–preach the Gospel to his mother one day when she called to speak to the kids.  I never told him that his mother was not saved. Yet, there he was one day when we were at the post office and his mother had called: walking around the post office with my cell phone in his hand, totally oblivious to everything and everyone around him, preaching the Gospel of Reconciliation to his lost mother.  Don’t you tell me God ain’t able.  I’ve seen what He can do.

So, don’t waste any time getting the Word of God into your kids.  Turn off the T.V.  Put the Bible on the middle of the table, so the kids understand that it’s the center of your existence.  Let them handle it, touch it, make it theirs.  Get them their own Bible and tell them to write their name in it, and do anything they want to make it theirs.  Only do it on the outside.  The inside is the Word of God and should not be tampered with except for notes and such.  Let almost every other word that comes out of your mouth be “Jesus” or “God.”  Make sure that they understand that Jesus is not only the Son of God, but God Almighty.  Don’t be surprised when your kids start using the two interchangeably, which is exactly what you want them to do.

Stop watching anything that your kids can’t watch with you.  If you think along these lines, you will quickly see how sinful are most of the programs that we think are OK.   This is what walking the walk is all about.

If you do these things, you will see incredible results.  But you gotta start.  So why not do it today?

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he shall not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6).

The Still Man

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Obedience and the Man of God

Posted on March 3, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace to the body of Christ and greetings to all nonbelievers.

Chapter 13 of the book of 1 Kings gives a rather poignant example of spiritual warfare that is often overlooked.  It illustrates what happens when the man of God disobeys the will of God. 

As you may recall, in the previous chapter, King Solomon has just died, and there is division in Israel over who will reign.  The tribes of Judah and Benjamin follow Jeroboam, the son of Solomon, while the other ten tribes follow Rehoboam, whom God has ordained to lead Israel, because of King Solomon’s disobedience. God has ordained Rehoboam, so his future as king of Israel is secure, but he is not satisfied.  As the Jewish feast approaches, Rehoboam is worried that when Israel goes to Jerusalem to sacrifice to God, their hearts will turn again to Jeroboam, and they will want to install him as King. 

Unsure of his future, the king makes a fateful decision.  Rehoboam repeats the error of Aaron and the Israelites when they came out of Egypt, and fashions two golden calves.  He offers them to the people to worship (v. 28), so that Israel will not go up to Jerusalem.  He invites them to become idolaters. 

It is upon the heels of this action that Chapter 13 introduces an enigmatic character: the “Man of God”:

“And behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the Lord unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.”

This nameless man pronounces God’s judgment on the altar and those who worship at it.  At this, Jeroboam attempts to have the man of God arrested, but when he points at the man of God, the very hand Jeroboam uses to point him out shrivels up, so that he can’t bend it.  Jeroboam asks the man of God to entreat God to restore the hand, which he does, and God restores his hand.  Jeroboam then invites the man of God to eat with him and receive a reward, to which the man of God replies,

“If thou wilt give me half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place: 

“For so was it charged me by the word of the Lord, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest” (13:8-9). 

The man of God steadfastly obeys God’s commandment and refuses the king’s hospitality.  He then leaves town by another road, per God’s instructions.

Now upon his departure, word of the man of God reaches a certain prophet, who, upon learning by which way the man left town, assays to go after him.  He finds the man of God sitting under a tree, and asks him to return home with him to eat something, and the man of God again replies:

“I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee: neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place:

“For it was said to me by the word of the Lord, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest. 

 To this, the old prophet retorts:

“I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.

“So [the man of God] went back with [the old prophet], and did eat bread in his house, and drank water (13:16-18).

The man of God is deceived into disobeying God and eating with the false prophet.  

Now while they were eating, God spoke to the man of God and told him that for his disobedience, he would not be buried in the tomb of his fathers.   Later, after the man of God had left the old prophet’s house and was returning home, a lion met him and killed him.  The lion did not eat the man, nor did it eat his donkey, which stood next to the man’s body alongside the lion. 

When news of the man of God’s death reached the old prophet, he said: 

“It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word of the Lord: therefore the Lord hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the Lord, which He spake unto him” (13:26). 

The old prophet then went and retrieved the man’s body and buried it in his own tomb, even commanding his sons to bury him alongside the man of God when he dies.

I must confess that when I first read this, I was somewhat perplexed.  Both the man of God and the old prophet are unnamed and are not mentioned again, but God thought it important enough to dedicate an entire chapter to this story.  It therefore behooves us to find out what the Lord is trying to tell us.

This curious interchange prompted the following questions:

  • The old prophet lived in the very town where Rehoboam and the Israelites were                  fornicating with strange gods.  Why then, did God send the man of God from Judah            instead of commissioning the old prophet to deliver the message to Rehoboam?
  • Why did the prophet lie if he was a prophet of God?  Would God instruct his      

prophets to lie? 

  • Why are we not told that God talked with the old prophet?  We are told that “the               word of God came unto the prophet” (v. 20) while they sat eating, but we are not told         that God came to him before that.  This is a very important detail, one that we will             revisit shortly.
  • How did the prophet know that the man of God was killed for disobeying God’s                   commandment?  And if he knew that the commandment came from God, why did he           coerce the man to disobey it?  
  • Why didn’t God punish the old prophet for lying?

As I reread and meditated on this chapter, the Spirit showed me some details that helped me to put everything in perspective.  To begin, it is clear that God gave the man of God a commandment, and that he disobeyed this commandment.  What is not clear is why the old prophet beguiled the man of God to disobey God if he too were also a prophet of God.

The key to these questions can be found in verse 20, which tells us that “the word of God came unto the prophet” while he was eating with the man of God.  This is the first time we are told that God spoke to the old prophet.  When he took it upon himself to go and find the man of God, he did so only when his sons told him of the works he had done before Rehoboam (verse 11).  It is clear from this verse that it was the news of the prophet that his sons had given him that prompted him to go and find the man of God.  We are not told whether God spoke with the old prophet, and, because the passage says that the false prophet lied, it is safe to assume that God had not spoken to him.

If his actions were not instructed of God, why, then, did the old prophet take it upon himself to speak for God?  Why did he say that the man of God had been disobedient?  I believe this was a test from God: a test of the man of God’s faithfulness.

You see, when the man of God went to Bethel to confront Rehoboam, he was speaking for God.  He was representing the Most High.  Now Scripture tells us that God hates idolatry (Exodus 20:4-5).  As it was the man of God’s commission to declare God’s judgment on Rehoboam’s idolatrous altar, he could not do so and at the same time fellowship with those whom he was condemning.  Scripture tells us that we should “have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them” (Ephesians 5:11).  Eating bread with someone was considered an act of fellowship:

“And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father in law before God.” (Exodus 18:12).

We cannot rebuke the sinful and at the same time sit down and have lunch with them, lest we defile ourselves and bring reproach upon the cross of Christ.

But we already know this, do we not brethren?  Then where and what is the object lesson here?   That my friends can be found in the person of the old prophet.

As we said, the old prophet lived in Bethel, so it stands to reason that he could have carried God’s message to Rehoboam himself.  So, why didn’t God use him?  I believe it’s because the old prophet had not rebuked Rehoboam for enticing Israel to sin.  Even if the prophet himself had not committed idolatry, the fact that he remained silent while Rehoboam and Israel practiced idolatry against the Most High God could be taken as a de-facto endorsement of their sin by God.  Therefore, this prophet had fallen out of step with God.

Further proof of this was the fact that the prophet lied to the man of God.  God cannot lie, and would never command His prophets to lie.  He can however allow a fallen prophet to lie.

Take the case of King Ahab in chapter 22 of the book of 2 Kings.  Now King Jehoshaphat of Judah and King Ahab of Israel were having a discussion.  Ahab wanted to go to battle against the Syrians and had inquired of his prophets if he should do so.  All but one of the prophets advised that he should go.  That one dissenting prophet was Micaiah.  How King Ahab hated Micaiah, because, according to him, the prophet never gave him any good news.

The next passage of Scripture gives us interesting insight into spiritual warfare.  For the prophet Micaiah tells them of a vision of heaven in which he saw the heavenly host standing before God the purpose of which was to devise a means by which King Ahab would die in this same battle.  Listen:

“And the Lord said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead?  And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner (one suggested this, and another suggested that). 

“Then stood forth a spirit (Satan), and stood before the Lord, and said, I will persuade him. 

“And the Lord said unto him, Wherewith (How)? And [Satan] said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of his prophets.  And [God] said, Thou shalt persuade him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so” (2 Kings 22:20-22).

What the prophet Micaiah says next is very important, so pay close attention:

“Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil concerning thee” (v. 23).

Did you see that?  The devil said that he would put a lying spirit in the mouth of Ahab’s prophets, but Micaiah said God did it.  Is this a contradiction?  Of course not.  This is an example of God’s omnipotence.  God brings evil, but Himself does no evil.   This agrees with James 1:13 which says:

“Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man.”

This is how the prophet was able to lie.  God, through Satan, put a lying spirit in his mouth.  Why did He do this?  He was testing the man of God.  He allowed the old prophet to lie to the man to try his faithfulness.  And the man of God failed the test.

This should be a lesson for us.  We represent the Most High God.  We should therefore not fellowship with idolaters.  When we sit down and eat with them, yet make no attempt to tell them they are living in sin and will be judged by God, we send the message to the unbelieving world that we approve of their sinfulness.  We give it God’s seal of approval.

Now we are in the age of Grace, so we don’t have to worry about lions attacking us on the way home for being disobedient.  But if we are guilty of fornicating with idolaters, we should know that God is not pleased.

It is important to understand that God used a false prophet to test a true prophet.  I cannot over-emphasize this point.  There are those in the church including pastors, deacons, elders, evangelists, and such like, who are no longer in step with God.  They will be evident to the discerning Christian by what they preach, what they say, whom they support, and how they live.  God will make this clear to those who truly want to please Him, because He doesn’t want us to give these people an indirect endorsement by passively supporting them.  If we are in the position to reprove them, then we must do so.  If not, then we must make it clear in some manner that we do not support them, for God may just use someone like that to test our faithfulness also.

Let me give you a personal example that brings this home.  As you may know, I am monitored round the clock both physically and electronically.  There is nothing that I say or do that is not recorded.  For a long time, I didn’t see the significance of this.  But one day something happened that really opened my eyes.

I went to visit a (false) friend’s church one Sunday.  Unbeknownst to me, on this particular day a Roman Catholic priest had been invited to speak.  Now as soon as this man stepped up to the pulpit, I knew I had no business in that place.  But instead of listening to the Spirit telling me to get up and leave, I stayed.

About halfway through his sermon, the priest cited the example of Stephen in the book of Acts as an example that Jesus cares for us.  He mentioned how Stephen, while being stoned, looked steadfastly into Heaven and saw “Jesus standing on the right hand of God.”  Now, we know that Jesus sits on the right hand of God, so the fact that He was now standing when Stephen was being stoned tells us that Jesus was not passively sitting by watching this, even though He knew that very shortly Stephen would be coming to see Him.  He cared very much what was happening to Stephen.  This was an exciting revelation.

Now, while the priest was explaining this, I started shouting, “Amen!”  Why?  Because I had just discovered this passage myself the day before, and I had similarly reacted when I made the discovery.  I tend to get excited about Truth.  Now, it was only when I got home and realized what had just taken place, that I understood that this was too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence.  The whole thing had been planned.

Now, if this man had been a Christian, it would not have been a big deal.  But he was a Roman Catholic, and Roman Catholics are not Christians.  The enemy, knowing my zeal for the Scriptures, knew what my reaction would be, because he had already seen it the night before.  He wanted me to endorse this Roman Catholic as being a Christian by shouting “Amen” to his teaching.  He knew that my reaction would be considered by many as an endorsement of Roman Catholicism as being of God, which it is not.

This was only the first of many such occurrences.  The enemy watches me like a hawk, not only following this blog, but also watching intently when I study Scripture.  You see, Satan can make a pretty good counterfeit, but they are not anointed of God and so do not have the wisdom and discernment of the Holy Spirit.  So the only way for Roman Catholics and other false Christians to get anointed teaching and understanding of the Scriptures is to steal it from a true Christian.  Just like their father, Satan.

So, we must be on guard constantly.  Satan knows that the unbelieving community, including those who are searching for the truth, are watching us.  So, if he wants to mislead those people into one of his false religions, he will try to get the endorsement of a true believer, and the truth seeker, seeing us fellowship with a false prophet and knowing that we stand for the truth of God, may think that he, too, has the truth.  Now do you see how the game is played?  Satan is a liar.

He also uses this same tactic to persuade those who are already imprisoned in one of his false systems to remain where they are, the logic being that, if they were in a false system, then surely we would tell them, and most assuredly we would not be fellowshipping with them.  Everyone knows that God hates idolatry and doesn’t want his people in the company of idolaters unless they are preaching the Gospel.

We also should not forget that when we fellowship with those who hate our God, we are in sin, and at the very least, Satan can use this as an opportunity to accuse us to the Father.  So we must be very careful not to fall for this tactic.

The man of God is so-named because he is the Christian Everyman.  He is you and I.  We who name the name of Christ are all men and women of God, and as such, we must stand for God’s truth at all times.  We must not compromise the Gospel of Jesus Christ for anyone or for any reason.  We must be sober and vigilant lest we fall into condemnation. We must not for any reason eat bread with idolaters and sinners.  Let us keep our robes clean and undefiled.

“I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

“Yet not altogether with the fornicators of the world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

“But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat” (1 Corinthians 5:9-11). 

Be encouraged and look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

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Forever Alone

Posted on February 25, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace, Saints, and greetings to the world at large.

Saints, it’s OK to laugh: we just shouldn’t laugh at someone else’s misfortune or at sin. Yes, we should separate ourselves from the world, but we should not be afraid to interact with the world.  We just have to be careful that when we do, it is on our terms and not theirs.  

OK,  I can’t come up with anything profound to say, so I’ll just get to the point.  I happened upon this video on YouTube and it made me laugh.  It’s kind of goofy, but I liked it.  And many of us can probably relate to its message.  

So I present it to you not for your edification, but for your enjoyment.  At the very least, It should make you really appreciate the things that are genuinely funny.

The Still Man

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“My Reasons For Not Going To Church”

Posted on February 22, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace to the elect of our Lord Jesus, and greetings to the enemies of God.

As many of you know, occasionally I will post a comment of one of our readers that deserves a thoughtful response too long for the standard comment section.  Oftentimes, I do so because the reader’s opinion echoes that of many others and I feel the body of Christ would be edified by the dialogue.

Such is the case today.  Many are disillusioned by organized Christianity—especially the church experience—and have decided that it is better to leave off going to church altogether.  This is, in part, due to the influence of New Age propaganda the goal of which is to destroy people’s faith in the church and in Christianity in general.  This gentleman’s comments reflect this phenomenon.  I include them here for your edification.

I should add that his comment was in response to yesterday’s post, “Does Anyone Have A Lent Brush?”I have edited his comments for length and readability, but I left the more salient points intact, which are in bold blue italic, followed immediately by my response.  

I must reiterate that I have included this here for the edification of the body of Christ. The gentleman who left this, though he insists he is Christian, has made so many unChrist-like comments that he cannot be Christian in the Biblical sense of the word.  So, this is in no way intended to persuade him.  I am appealing to those true Christians who may be buying into the New Age propaganda.

[BEGIN DIALOGUE]

“I, like you, stopped attending Church, because I cannot find any GOD approved, Jesus sanctioned Church “gatherings”. I say this because I believe also that almost all religious denominations under the banner of “Church” are offspring of the Whore spoken about in Revelation. As you pointed out, they are ecumenical. My beef against all such-so-called organizations of man-made “traditional” Christianity is as follows:

“1. Easter: Our Lord Jesus Christ is not a lair. He specifically said, 3 days, 3 nights; meaning 72 consecutive hours.”

It’s not important.  Easter is a pagan fertility holiday, hence rabbits and Easter eggs.  Rabbits are known for procreating, eggs are a symbol of fertility, and chocolate is an aphrodisiac.  But even so, Easter is a free pass for Bible-believing Christians to rejoice that our Lord Jesus is risen. 

In the United States, even Christians have come to celebrate Easter like the pagans, and forget the significance of our Lord’s resurrection.  But in Russia, a Communist country that hates Christianity, true Christians have not forgotten.  When Russian Christians great one another on Easter Sunday, one says, “Cristos Voscres!!!” to which the other replies, “Da, soversheno Voscres!!!” (Christ is Risen!!! Yes, indeed He is Risen!!!).

Forget when He rose.  The important thing is that He rose.  The important thing is that we are free to worship Jesus on Easter Sunday and the pagans are free to worship procreating bunnies.  That’s what freedom is all about.  And I love it so.

“2. Christmas was chosen by Catholics on or about 1500 because almost every other Pagan-satan-nature worshiping religion had their “Sun” god die Dec 21…”

It is true that Christmas is a pagan Roman Catholic holiday, but we are blessed to be able to commemorate the birth of Jesus on this day.  The important thing is that, regardless of the history or origin of Christmas, for now, those who love the Lord are free to worship Him on that day.  In a Communist or Muslim-dominated country, that would not be possible.  As for what day Jesus was actually born, I love what Paul has to say:

“One man esteemeth one day above another, another esteemeth every day alike.  Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind” (Romans 14:5).

In other words, one day is as good as another.  The important thing is that Jesus was born, because if He were not born, then He could not have died.  And if He had not died, then He could not have risen!

“3a. How can a manly-man of God focus on the teaching, singing and preachings of God when his eyes are watching these women in high heels and short skirts…”

This manly-man of God does it every Sunday, after praying about it the night before.

“3b. Besides this, most preachers, church leaders, members of the board of the church are Freemasons, witches or members of other satanic organizations.”

This is true in many cases, but it is not always the case.  I am not a Freemason or any of the other things you mention.  And that means there are others who are not, also.  You can’t paint everyone with the same broad stroke.

“3c. Jesus the Christ commanded we worship God in our hearts and minds and soul. Inwardly where no one can see nor make jest of us.”

This is false.  Jesus never commanded we worship God inwardly.  In fact He said, “Make a joyful noise unto the Lord.”  An “inward” noise is not a noise at all.  It is a thought.  What Jesus told us to do was to pray in our “secret closet,” meaning not to make a public show of piety by praying out loud like the Pharisees.

“4. Sabbath Day and Holy Days: They simply cannot obey and keep the Sabbath Day holy. They change the Sabbath day from Saturday to Sunday. Who gave them that authority?”

The Sabbath has nothing to do with the Christian Church.  It was made for the Jews.  The Christian Sabbath, if you want to call it that, is Sunday.  Christians worship Jesus on Sunday, because that was when Mary Magdelene came to the tomb and found it empty (John 20:1).  And the early Christians continued this tradition:

“And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread…” (Acts 20:7).

The first day of the week is Sunday.

“5. Tithing, offerings and money collection: Where did this 10% doctrine come from?”

There are several places where God talks about the tithe, but we should at least tithe for the reason Jacob gives in Genesis 28:20-21:

“And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father’s home in peace; then shall the Lord be my God.”

“[A]nd of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.”

We tithe because God has promised:

1. To never leave us

2. To guide us

3. To feed us

4. To clothe us, and

5.  To shelter and protect us

In short, to supply our every need.  We show our gratitude for His all-providence by honoring Him with the tithe.  The tithe is one of the most important responsibilities for the Christian. 

It doesn’t matter if Jesus doesn’t mention the tithe in the New Testament.  Jesus is God Almighty.  So it was He in the Old Testament who promised to take care of all of Jacob’s needs.  Now, in the New Testament, God promises to “supply all your need according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:19).  And our needs are the same now as they were in Jacob’s time.  So, if it is the same God and the same need, why shouldn’t it be the same tithe?  You’re trying to justify not honoring God with the tithe, and it ain’t working.

“6. Toleration [sic] of Sin: Most Churches are now tolerant of Homosexuality. They are tolerant of Divorce and many, many other sins.”

It is not the church’s responsibility to approve or deny divorces.  A church is not a theocracy.  It is still limited by the laws of the secular government.  With respect to homosexuality, homosexuals need salvation too.  If a Christian is a practicing homosexual, he needs prayer and support to stop, not condemnation.  That said, he definitely should not be allowed to hold any ecclesiastical position.

As for the sin issue, there is no way to keep Satan from going to church.  So it is pointless to think you can keep him from fellowshipping with the brethren.  In John Chapter 13, Satan was sitting at the table with Jesus and the disciples at the Last Supper.  Now if he showed up at their gathering, what makes you think you can stop him?  You can’t!  But if you are obedient and diligent, you can limit his activities.

7. “The assembly of brethren includes visiting a friend or friends, eating and talking about Christ…I will chill out from all my labors, enjoy my wives and children.”

Not if they are not our brethren in Christ Jesus.  And if you decide to visit your friends, you had better make sure you are witnessing.  If not, you are fellowshipping with unbelievers, which is expressly forbidden by God.  A Christian must go to church.  This is a commandment.  

Besides, we here in the U.S. are among the few in the world who have the right to assemble to worship Jesus without fearing for our lives.  This is on my mind every Sunday.  So when I go to church, I’m celebrating the freedom to do so.  And when I don’t, I’m celebrating the freedom not to.  Soon—and very soon—many who take that right for granted will be wishing they hadn’t.

“I said WIVES and I mean WIVES. God GAVE King David WIVES, and he has blessed me thus.”

But you are not King David.  Plural wives are wrong on so many levels, I won’t even address it.  We can justify anything if we want to do it bad enough.

“Please forgive me for not providing quotes of Scriptures mentioned here. I am sorry for those who do not know Scripture.”

Please include yourself among “those who do not know Scripture,” for if you knew them, you would include chapter and verse to back up the things you claim, and you wouldn’t be claiming things are in the Bible that are not.  

Moreover it helps when you are making certain contentions, and makes all the difference between a discussion or discourse and an argument.

Now out of respect, I have addressed your points, but I won’t pursue further dialogue on the matter, because it is not edifying.  As Paul said:

“But if any man be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God” (1 Corinthians 11:16).

Peace go with you.  

[END DIALOGUE]  

I hope this dialogue clarified a few points and will edify the body of Christ.

Be encouraged and look up; for your redemption draweth nigh.  

The Still Man

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Does Anyone Have a Lent Brush?

Posted on February 21, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace, Saints.

The following announcement appeared in the February 5, 2012 program for the church that I attend:

All Church Fast

Here we go again!

Our 40 day fast for the Lenten Season will begin on Ash Wednesday, February 22, 2012 and will end on Palm Sunday, April 1, 2012.

As many of you may know, a few months ago, I joined a local assembly close to my home, after having not attended church in almost three years.  I did this even though they are a Church of God, which I have always suspected was ecumenical; that is, they are essentially a denomination of the Roman Catholic church.   This suspicion was based on my having once attended a Church of God congregation for about a year; in fact, it was that experience which caused me to leave off attendance of any organized congregation whatsoever.

But as I related, I joined them out of obedience to God, because He says that we “should not forsake the gathering of ourselves together.”  As part of church procedure, I had to attend a 12-week “Newcomer’s Class,” which, as the name implies, is a mandatory class for all new church members, whether they be newly converted or saved people looking for a church home.  Of course, I fell into the latter category. 

By the end of the first class, I knew that this church was charismatic.  I was the only one in class, so it was just the pastor and I on a one-on-one session.  Because I am already saved, but still had to attend the class, I knew that, besides church history and rules and regulations, the only thing that could possibly occupy fourteen hours was doctrine.  This was to be an indoctrination.

During the first and second briefings, the pastor seemed to be feeling me out to see whether what they believed was going to conflict with my beliefs.  So he gave me their doctrine indirectly and in very minute doses.  I sensed what was going on, and so, to allay the pastor’s fears, I told him that I was not there to play the dissembler.  I explained that my purpose for joining myself to any congregation was simply because church attendance is commanded by the Lord Jesus.  Therefore, I would not be troubleshooting their beliefs and practices unless they were a clear heresy, and even then, I would rather leave than become contentious.  

This had no effect at all, and I could tell that he hesitated to tell me what they really believed when, after he made a side comment concerning tongues, I told him what Paul said concerning the same: that if a trumpet maketh an unclear sound, how will one know when to go into battle, or, if one gives thanks to God in tongues, how would another know when to say, “Amen,” if he can’t understand what you’re saying (1 Corinthians 14).

At this, he balked somewhat, and I knew instinctively that this man believed in the tongues movement.  As a matter of fact, he repeatedly referred to the Church of God as a “movement,” which was a dead giveaway.  Yet, I held my peace.  At about the halfway point in our discussion, he asked me about my writing, as I had written on the visitor’s card that I was a writer.  After telling him what I do, he asked if he could one day read one of my tracts.  Since he wanted to know what I believed without disclosing what he really believed, I took this opportunity to give him the URL of this blog, so he could find out what I believed without exposing himself.  Yes, I threw him a lifeline. 

Well, that was our last meeting.  The first time he didn’t show, he called to say that he would not be coming.  But after that, he didn’t say anything: he just stopped showing up.  This is the first time I have gotten on the bad side of a charismatic preacher without opening my mouth.  Sigh.

Though this is a charismatic church, I continue to attend, because I told the Lord Jesus that I was not going to search anymore for a church home, as, in my experience, virtually all Protestant churches in St. Louis, a Roman Catholic city, are charismatic, or at least ecumenical.  Though I don’t know for sure if this church is charismatic, it is definitely ecumenical, as the announcement in the church bulletin clearly demonstrates.  Saints, Lent is not Christian.  It is Roman Catholic. 

Webster’s Dictionary defines Lent as:

“the 40 weekdays from Ash Wednesday to Easter observed ty the Roman Catholic, Eastern, and some Protestant churches as a period of penitence and fasting.”

There are only two Christian celebrations authorized in the Bible: The Lord’s Supper and Resurrection Day (which coincides with the pagan Easter celebration).  The Lord’s Supper, of course, commemorates Jesus’ death and Easter celebrates His resurrection. Christmas has come to be celebrated because of the Roman Catholic church (Christmas = Christ Mass), but nowhere in Scripture are Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, or Fish Friday celebrated.  These things are not Christian, they are Catholic.

While I have no problem with Christmas other than the fact that it is pagan, commercial, and secular, I do have a problem with Christians celebrating what is clearly not Christian.  And a holiday during which Roman Catholics make an outward show of penitence and piety after having celebrated a weeklong pagan festival of debauchery and licentiousness called Carnival and Mardi Gras (during which many participate in sexual orgies) IS NOT CHRISTIAN.

The celebration of Lent by the Protestant Church is one of the most visible signs of the Ecumenical Movement, which has all but absorbed the visible Christian church into the Roman Catholic church; so much so, that Roman Catholic terminology (and holidays) has become a permanent part of the Christian lexicon.

For example, Christians used to say we “accept” the Lord Jesus as our Savior, when we get saved.  But now it is common to say that we “receive” the Lord Jesus.  Nowhere in the Bible is this terminology used.  As we wrote in The Charismatic Movement, The Lord’s Supper, and the New Age, this is one of the most visible examples of the Roman Catholic Ecumenical Movement in the Christian church, for “receiving” Jesus Christ is a Roman Catholic concept.

You see, the Roman Catholic doctrine of the Real Presence holds that the actual body, blood, and divinity of Jesus Christ are contained in the communion wafer.  So for the Roman Catholic, the communion wafer is not the symbolic body and blood of Jesus, but His actual body and blood.  Former Catholic priest, Charles Chiniquy, writes about this in his book, 50 Years in the Church of Rome.

So, when the Roman Catholic eats the communion wafer, he truly believes he has eaten the body and blood of Jesus Christ and can, therefore, say that he has “received” Christ. That is why when many Roman Catholics are talking to someone they know is a true Christian, they will not say they are a Roman Catholic, but instead will say they have “received” Christ as their Savior, which the undiscerning Christian will take to mean that the Roman Catholic is also a Christian. 

Early Protestant Reformation Christian churches did not use this term, as they knew full well what Roman Catholics really believed and practiced.  But today, thanks to Charismatic preachers, this is no longer true. 

Today Roman Catholics enjoy a much better reputation as Christians than true Bible-believing Christians do.  True Christians are seen by the unbelieving world as judgmental and dogmatic because we stress sanctification and holiness.  But because the Roman Catholic is permitted to sin indiscriminately and then ask forgiveness of another sinful man rather than of God, who demands holiness, we are seen as hypocritical. 

Be that as it may, the Christian church is not to compromise.  We are to stand for God’s truth.  We are to stand for holiness, for God said, “Be ye holy, as I am Holy.”  We are not to join with an harlot, for Scripture says that we are not to be “unequally yoked with unbelievers.” 

The Great Whore of Rome has all so-called Christian denominations comfortably tucked away into her bra.  So it is folly to expect that the visible Christian church will ever separate from her.   But I appeal to all true saints, the true Body of Christ, the true, Bible-believing priesthood of  all believers, to “come out of her” that we receive not of her plagues.

“He that hath an ear, hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.”

 “Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils” (1 Corinthians 10:21).

Be encouraged and look up; for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

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Generational Curses Part 5 of 5

Posted on February 20, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace, Saints.

The fifth and final episode in our series on generational curses is now available at the iTunes Store.  You can subscribe to our podcast here.

We pray it blesses you.

The Still Man

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Generational Curses Part 4 of 5

Posted on February 19, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace, Saints.

Part three of our teaching on generational curses is now available at the iTunes Store. You can subscribe to our free podcast here.  For your convenience, it is also provided below.

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Generational Curses Part 3 of 5

Posted on February 19, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace, Saints.

Part three of our teaching on generational curses is now available at the iTunes Store. You can subscribe to our podcast here.

I pray it blesses you.

The Still Man

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Generational Curses Part 2 of 5

Posted on February 18, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace.

Following is the second part of our podcast on generational curses, which you can here by subscribing to our free podcast at the iTunes Store.  For your convenience, it is also provided below.

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May God’s peace and blessings be upon you.

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Generational Curses Part 1 of 5

Posted on February 18, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace Saints.  

We have completed the series of podcasts to accompany our article on Generational Curses. The series consists of five episodes of approximately two hours each.  They are packed with information not available on the blog article.

They are available for free at the iTunes Store.

Blessings,

The Still Man

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Is Jesus Christ God Almighty?

Posted on February 16, 2012 by The Still Man

 “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which was and which is to come,  the Almighty” (Revelation 1:8). 

Grace and peace to the brethren, and greetings to those still in the world.

For those of us who love our Lord Jesus Christ and the Word of God, it is nothing for us to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and, in fact, God Almighty, for the Scriptures testify to this in numerous places.  But there are many who call themselves Christians, but do not believe this.  

Jehovah’s Witnesses, for example, claim to be Christians and to love the Lord Jesus Christ, but though they say they believe Jesus is the Son of God, they do not believe that He is God Almighty.  I have spent countless man hours witnessing to the Witnesses (pun absolutely intended) to no avail.  Even though I’ve shown them many Scriptures that undeniably demonstrate that Jesus Christ and Jehovah are the same person, they refuse to accept this.  

New Age “Christians,” or Gnostics, also say that Jesus never said that He was God; that it was His disciples who later twisted His teachings.  Sigh.

I had given up on the subject, understanding that many who deny Jesus is God are “willingly ignorant” of this fact.  They are holding on to some sin that they don’t want to leave off, and don’t want to believe that Jesus will be sitting in judgment of them on that fateful day.  But they still want to claim Jesus as their Lord and Savior.  They are in a quandary.  

I run into Scriptures time and again in both the Old and New Testaments that clearly demonstrate that Jesus is the Almighty God; so often, in fact, that I had stopped writing them down, determined as I was to stop trying to convince the Witnesses, or anyone for that matter, of the deity of Jesus Christ.  

Because God is not into coincidences, I believe the Spirit kept showing me these, because He wants me to share this information with the body of Christ.  To that end I have created this page, which I will update periodically with Scriptures that demonstrate that Jesus is God Almighty.  You may want to bookmark it and check it periodically.  Whenever I update it, I will move it to the front page of the blog.  So when you come here and find it is the first page, you know that it has new information.

*******************************January 25, 2012******************************

Let us start with a scripture I read today.  Now we know that God will sit in judgment of every one of us.  For those who have accepted Jesus as our Savior, this will be at the Judgment Seat of Christ.  For those who have not accepted Him, this will be at the Great White Throne Judgment.  Many believe that everyone will appear at the Great White Throne Judgment, but the Bible says that those who appear before God at this judgment will be judged for their works.  That means that they will be judged according to the Law. 

But believers in Christ will not be judged by their works, for we are not under the Law. (Wow, the Spirit just told me that I need to devote a separate teaching on this subject, so you can look for it shortly.)

Now to continue, we know that God will judge us.  One place that says this is Psalm 50:6:

“And the heavens shall declare His righteousness for God is Judge Himself.  Selah.”

Many believe that when the Old Testament uses the word God, it is referring to God the Father, not to Jesus Christ, and that it is the Father who will judge us on Judgment Day. But if this is true, then Jesus is a liar, because Jesus said:

“[T]he Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son” (John 5:22). 

The Son, of course, is Jesus Christ.  Now was Jesus a liar, or is He really God Almighty?  

*******************************February 16, 2012******************************

Many cite John 10:30 as proof that Jesus said He was God; and they do well, because He is saying this very thing:

“I and my Father are one” (John 10:30).

But we often neglect verse 29, in which He is saying the exact same thing.  Though subtle, it is also very powerful.  Let’s take a look at it.

“My father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand” (John 10:29).

Jesus says that God the Father is greater than all, and gave Jesus all believers.  But if the Father has given us to Jesus, why does He say that no man can take us out of His Father’s hand, rather than His own hand?

Because Jesus was saying that the Father’s hand is His own hand.  That is why Jesus then says that He and the Father are One.  

Now did Jesus come right out and say that He was God?  No He did not.  But, the Jews knew exactly what he meant, as their reaction clearly demonstrates: 

“Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.

“Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?

“The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God” (John 10:30-33).

They understood perfectly what Jesus was saying: that He is God almighty.  Now if the Jews of that day understood that Jesus said He was God, even though He didn’t use those exact words, why is it so hard for us to understand today?

Folks, you must choose, and you must do it as expeditiously as possible.  Because if Jesus Christ is God, then you had better find out what He wants you to do (or not to do), and do it (or not do it).  The clock is ticking.

Be encouraged and look up; for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

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More on Whitney Houston

Posted on February 15, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace.

We’ve added another video of Whitney Houston on our first article about her death.  It shows Whitney at age 17 singing on the Merv Griffith show.  You have got to see it.  She throws up so many signs and so often, that it blew my mind.  

Now I am not scouring the internet looking for dirt on Whitney Houston.  I was watching the Diane Sawyer interview with Whitney from 2002, when they showed a clip from that appearance on Merv Griffith, which clearly showed her throwing up hand signs.  I had to see the whole thing.

I believe that we have proven our contention that Whitney was involved in occult activities as well as her family.  This is not unusual, because witchcraft is an abomination to God and practicing witchcraft brings a generational curse upon the family.  So it was inevitable that Whitney Houston would practice witchcraft in some fashion.  

She may have wanted out and was killed for that reason, though I don’t know that for certain.  We can hope that before she drew her last breath, she returned to her first love, the Lord Jesus Christ.  I certainly hope she did.  I don’t plan to write anymore on Ms. Houston.  My heart goes out to her daughter.  

We need to pray for her daughter, because, as Whitney was likely involved in generational witchcraft, it is highly likely her daughter is carrying on the same tradition, and may very well be cursed with her mother’s problems.

The Still Man

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Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick, the Christian Church, and the Magical Connection

Posted on February 15, 2012 by The Still Man

“Any black entertainer, who is of any consequence today, primarily started in the churches.”  —Dionne Warwick 

Grace and peace, believers and unbelievers alike.

As many of you know, I contend that Whitney Houston was murdered by the forces of darkness of which, she too, was a part.  I also contend that, not only was her death planned, but her birth also, as there are absolutely too many numerological coincidences in both.  As I said, I believe this so strongly, that I won’t even bother researching it.

Understand that the celebrities and the occult should not be a concern of the Christian church.  The purpose of our coverage of Whitney Houston’s murder was neither to sensationalize the occult elements of her death, nor to draw attention to the problems in this poor lady’s life.  But the occult has become a major part of daily American life largely due to the efforts of celebrities and their influence has extended to the Christian church. This is because many celebrities—especially black celebrities—claim to be Christians, many even having started in the Christian church.  And they have used their influence to deceive the Body of Christ.  Through their music and popularity, they have helped to bring worldly music and occultism into the Christian church.

That was our purpose for covering the Whitney Houston murder: to show not only that she was involved in the occult, but to show that her family and associates are also involved—as indeed, virtually all celebrities are, in some way and to some extent.  We should, therefore, not be deceived when we see them smiling and being seemingly wholesome and down-to-earth on interviews and awards shows.  That is all part of the deception.

Whitney Houston was no exception.  While professing to be a Christian, she lived as anything but.  And though she was certainly the victim in her murder, there is no discounting that the many young girls who were deceived into thinking that Whitney was the epitome of young black American female wholesomeness were also victims.  Whitney Houston contributed to the destruction of black female morals.  Make no mistake about it.

Look at the lyrics and themes in many of the songs that made Whitney Houston a household name.  They are not wholesome.  You may find it interesting, for example, that “The Greatest Love of All” made popular by Whitney, is actually Antichrist.  Click here to learn how.  Even a cursory examination of the roles she played in her movies reveals an even more disturbing trend.

What role did Whitney play in “Waiting to Exhale?”  A single, independent, and successful black woman having an affair with a married man.  What role did she play in “The Bodyguard?”  A single, independent, and successful black pop diva who has an affair with her white bodyguard.  In “The Preacher’s Wife,” she played a married woman, but she almost carries on an affair with an angel.  What blasphemy!

Do you see a pattern here?  Affairs are the central element in almost every role Whitney played.  And we wonder why there are so many problems between black men and women. We wonder why there is such a problem with promiscuity, teen pregnancy, and AIDS among young black women—even the successful ones.  We wonder why most black women these days want to be single, independent, and successful and not marry and start a family.  They had a lot of help.  Our celebrity heroes have largely contributed to the compromising of black morals and the destruction of the black family.

How did this happen?  Celebrities like Whitney Houston (RIP) came in under the radar clothed in sheepskin.  Why didn’t we see it?  Because we were literally mesmerized. We were hypnotized.  You did know that Hollywood practices witchcraft didn’t you?  Why of course you did.

Thanks to YouTube and the internet, celebrity involvement in the occult is all but common knowledge to the average, unbelieving citizen, but the Christian church has yet to wake up to this fact.  We tend to believe that a celebrity can go to church on Sunday and live like the devil Monday through Saturday.  All they have to do is give thanks to God when they accept an award, give props to Jesus now and then, and wear a cross around their neck, and we believe they are Christian.  Never mind that the fruit they bear is anything but Christian.

Understand that the dark occult forces of the world are actively working to destroy the Christian church and morality, and Hollywood and the entertainment industry play a major role.  These people are the enemies of Jesus Christ.  Therefore, the only association we should have with celebrities is to pray for them and, if possible, witness to them.  We should not ask them for their autograph, buy or listen to their music, watch their movies, or buy their books.  Our doing so not only sends the wrong message to the unbelieving world, but it sends the wrong message to our children.

But I digress.  What I wanted to say today is that since the Whitney Houston murder, I have contemplated the role of occult family connections.  When I was writing the piece on Whitney, it seemed to me that I had heard somewhere that Dionne Warwick, Whitney’s cousin, was involved in some form of witchcraft.  But I couldn’t remember what I had heard or where I had heard it.

Then, this morning while I was making coffee, it hit me:  Dionne Warwick used to be involved with the Psychic Friends Network.  I googled “Dionne Warwick Psychic Friends” and was taken to a link for the following YouTube video of Miss Warwick pitching the Psychic Friends Network.

Understand that psychic phenomena like ESP, telepathy, fortune-telling, and the like are witchcraft, according to the Bible.  So this is proof positive that Dionne Warwick was involved in witchcraft.  Intrigued, I went to Wikipedia for some quick information on Dionne Warwick, and was surprised at what I found.

I saw that, like Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick also came from a so-called Christian background having sung in the same gospel group with Houston’s mother, Cissy, called the Gospelaires.  But the similarities didn’t end there.  The themes of some of Warwick’s songs were also very telling, and have their counterpart in societal ills.  For instance, in 1982, Warwick released a duet with Johnny Mathis entitled “Friends In Love” from the album by the same name.  Sounds innocent enough, doesn’t it?  After all, many married couples began as friends.

But in 1993 Warwick released an album entitled “Friends Can Be Lovers.”  This title carries a less innocent connotation.  My question to you is this: is the theme of a man and a woman who are supposed to be friends, but who also enjoy a sexual relationship a Christian one?  Have you noticed that there have been a recent spate of music and movies (such as “Friends With Benefits”) that echo this motif?

It is no secret that Satan hates anything that God loves, and God loves marriage.  So Satan destroys the sanctity of marriage by offering people everything that marriage has to offer without the commitment.  And it is working.  Increasingly, couples are deciding to stay friends instead of getting married, and to enjoy all the benefits of marriage without the sacrifices.  A perfect recipe for disaster.  The problem is that “Christians” are falling for this deception, having been beguiled into this lifestyle by those whom the media promote as the perfect blend of Christian wholesomeness and worldliness.

Another thing Warwick has in common with Whitney Houston is drugs.  Only Dionne’s troubles weren’t as ostensibly serious or as highly publicized as Whitney’s.

A 61-year-old Christian pop singer who also smokes dope.  Christian right?

Additionally, Dionne Warwick had some interesting romantic entanglements.   This from Wikipedia:

“Warwick has been connected romantically with Philadelphia Eagles great Timmy Brown, French singer-songwriter Sacha Distel, actor Philip Michael Thomas (Miami Vice), Seagram heir and CEO Edgar Bronfman, Jr., and Las Vegas restaurateur and actor Gianni Russo (The Godfather).”

According to Wikipedia, Philip Michael Thomas of Miami Vice fame, like Dionne Warwick, was involved in a psychic network called the Psychic Reader’s Network (later known as Traffix, Inc.) and become the spokesman for the Philip Michael Thomas Psychic Connection.  Do not for one minute believe that this occult connection was purely coincidental.

I was totally unaware that Warwick had been involved with Seagram heir Edgar Bronfman Jr., the grandson of Samuel Bronfman, of the fabulously wealthy Canadian Jewish Bronfman family.  This is a very intriguing connection indeed, for the Bronfmans made their fortune peddling bootleg liquor during the Prohibition era, according to the book, Dope Inc.  The book also states that the Bronfmans have connections to organized crime in Canada and in the United States.  

Interestingly, Warwick is not the only black female Edgar has been involved with, and through one of his relationships, Bronfman has had an influence on black public education in the United States.

One website on Warwick former romantic interest and NFL great, Timmy Brown, included some of his stats.  When I looked them over, I was amazed by the numerological “coincidences.”  I noticed all the 9’s, 11’s, 13’s, 18’s, 22’s, 27’s, 29’s, and 33’s that kept popping up, not only in his birthdate and player stats, but on the birth dates and information of many of the football players listed on the webpage.  Because of this, something told me to go to YouTube and check out some footage of some of Brown’s games.  In one game, I was amazed as, repeatedly, the defensive linemen seemed to make no real effort to sack the quarterback as he completed pass after pass to Brown.

Once again, I was convinced that nothing is a coincidence: right down to a famous football player’s career.  I went away more convinced than ever that careers in entertainment (and sports are entertainment) are not only made and ended, but are meticulously managed: right down to an athlete’s stats.  Famous athletes’ careers are managed just as famous singers’ and actors’ careers are managed.  They are managed with a purpose, and their fame is not coincidental.  It has been given to them by Satan, and it is to be used for his ends.  If you look closely at the lives of celebrities, you will see Satan glorified in them.

That is what we must consider when we look at celebrities like Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick, Kirk Franklin, Steve Harvey, and others who purport to be Christian.  What is their fruit?  Do their lives glorify the name of Jesus Christ?  When we see a secular artist like Dionne Warwick put out a gospel album, as she did in 2008, we should wonder about that.  We should wonder what connection a singer who is involved in the occult, makes music that glorifies gratuitous sex, and smokes marijuana could have with the Lord Jesus.  We should ask ourselves these questions and not consider these people our brothers and sisters in Christ.

Did you know that the Pointer Sisters also got their start in church and that their parents were ministers?  And as many of you know, June Pointer, like Whitney Houston, suffered from substance abuse problems, right until the day of her death.  Where was Christ glorified in her life?  People like these need our prayers and not our patronage.

These things should concern us.  I don’t believe for one minute that Dionne Warwick’s Psychic Friends connection was solely financially motivated any more than I believe that her affiliation with the animal rights movement is purely out of concern for animals.  And if you’ve read our articles on the Animal Rights Movement, then you know that there is a New Age connection between the Animal Rights Movement, the occult, and the New World Order.

Please understand that I am not trying to cast any dispersion upon Dionne Warwick or the memory of Whitney Houston.  I am merely suggesting that we, as Christians, take a moment and think about why we do what we do.  I am merely suggesting that we scrutinize the actions of Christian artists who act worldly and worldly artists who claim to be Christian.  Because these people claim to represent our faith, and are influencing us and our children, we should hold them accountable.

Be encouraged and look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

Quote from Dionne Warwick interview can be found @ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IgwTGLg2Bk&feature=related 

 

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Why Was Whitney Houston Murdered?

Posted on February 12, 2012 by The Still Man

RIP Whitney Houston

Grace and peace to my brothers and sisters in Christ and in Adam.

Today many Americans are mourning the death of Whitney Houston, who died on Saturday February 11, 2012.  I believe I speak for many when I say that many, if not most, of us, at some point of our lives, were a fan of Whitney Houston’s music, if not a fan of Whitney Houston.

I have never been a big fan of Kevin Costner, but I went to see “The Bodyguard,” because of Whitney Houston.  I am not a big fan of “chick flicks,” but I went to see “Waiting to Exhale,” because of Whitney Houston.  

Ok, maybe I was a fan of Whitney Houston. But I was not a fan of Whitney Houston’s lifestyle, or at least her purported lifestyle, which was allegedly one of heavy partying and drugs.  Her handlers really did a good job, though, promoting her as a squeaky-clean, girl-next-door type from a Christian family, as most everyone has heard of her being discovered at the age of 11 singing in a church choir.  They might even have pulled it off, had her drug addiction and marital problems not become such a public matter.

I will not remember her as a drug addict, nor a pop diva, however.  I will remember her as a lost soul who needed Jesus in her life.  That is what we as Christians must take away from the lesson of Whitney Houston’s life.  

It is pretty much common knowledge these days that everybody who’s anybody in Hollywood and the entertainment industry is into Satan and Lucifer worship.  And it doesn’t matter how pristine their image and their reputation appear to be.  If they are famous, then they are also infamous.  They are lost and living in sin, and if they don’t find Jesus, they will die in their sins.  

Our job as Christians is not to idolize them, but to pray for them; that they will come out of Satan’s camp and step into the kingdom of Heaven.  The problem is that if they do, they may very well be risking their life, at least according to former witch, John Todd.  I believe many celebrities, who come out of witchcraft and Satanism, are killed.  I can’t prove it, but I believe it.

Think about it.  Imagine all of the people a celebrity can implicate.  Imagine all the people who the media portray as good, hardworking, honest people, but are really some of the most evil people on earth, that a celebrity could identify as a satanist, or a witch, or a pedophile, or a murderer.  Imagine someone with all that information leaving “the group.”  If someone with a knowledge of the entertainment business’s inner workings left “the group” and became a civilian, they would take all of that information with them. They would probably be considered a risk to the health of “the group.”  They would probably not be allowed to leave alive.

For you see, Hollywood is nothing but a bunch of criminals: thugs, gangsters, murderers, perverts, homosexual pedophiles, pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers and drug addicts, witches, satanists, and every other societal predator imaginable.  And the filth that comes out of Hollywood proves it, just as the filth that write, direct, produce, promote, sing, and star in that filth prove it.

Someone like Whitney Houston, who had been a part of that lifestyle at its highest levels, would not be allowed to leave—at least not standing up.  Jack Chick, in the Crusader Comic, The Broken Cross, relates just such a scenario, and John Todd, who helped him to write that tract, has related it in his testimony.  

Of course, many will doubt what I’m saying here: that Whitney Houston was involved in Satan worship.  This is how good her handlers were at portraying her as just a good ol’ fashioned girl, who just made a few mistakes along the way.  After all, we all make mistakes, right?  We do all make mistakes, but we don’t all worship Satan.  And I have every reason to believe that Whitney Houston did.

Many would also doubt that Whitney Houston was murdered.  But I believe she was.  Do I know this for a fact? No.  Do I have any inside information?  No.  Why then, do I believe this?  A gut feeling, that’s all.  A gut feeling:  But not an uneducated gut feeling.

First of all, if you’ve read our article, The Occult Significance of the Norway Shooting, you know the significance of numerology in planned occult events.  I’m so certain that Whitney’s death was planned and executed in an occult fashion, that I won’t even take the time to thoroughly research it.  I will only give a few particulars that raised a red flag for me.

First of all, Whitney died on February 11, 2012, or 2/11/2012.

2 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 2 = 9.

9 is very important in occult numerology, because it hides the triple number of Antichrist, the Beast, which is 666.

6 + 6 + 6 = 18.  18 is formed by 1 and 8.  1 + 8 = 9.

In this manner, 9 hides the triple number of the Beast, or 666.  When you see a lot of 9’s and 18’s showing up, rest assured, the occult is involved. 

Let us continue to examine the date Whitney died, February 11, 2012.

The number 11 pops up a lot in occult numerology, as does the number 22.  Those who study occult numerology say that any multiple of an occult number makes its magical properties stronger.  February, the second month, therefore becomes 2, and:

2 x 11 = 22

The year 2012 becomes 5, as 2 + 1 + 2 = 5

So, 22 + 5 + 27

As we stated in our article on Norway, 27 is an occult number, probably based on Revelation 3:9, which talks about the Synagogue of Satan.  The number 18, besides holding the number of the Beast, or 666, also may be a reference to Revelation 2:9, which also talks about the Synagogue of Satan.

2 + 11 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 2 = 18.  18 = 6 + 6 + 6, or 666.

2 + 11 + 2 + 12 = 27.  27 = 9 + 9 + 9 or 666 upside down.

News sources say that Whitney was pronounced dead at 3:55 PST.  

3 + 5 + 5 = 13.

Furthermore, she died February 11, or 2/11.  2 + 11 = 13.  Coincidence? No.

Thirteen is the number of rebellion.  Keep this in mind.

To show you how the media are into numerology, one news source says that Whitney died at 3:55 PST (6:55 EST).

CNN coverage of Whitney’s death

This is not normally done.  Most news sources will either use local standard time or Eastern Standard Time, not both.  That’s because everyone knows that there is a three-hour difference between Pacific and Eastern Standard Times.  Therefore it is superfluous to list them both; that is, unless you are into numerology:  

Add the 3 from 3:55 and the 6 from 6:55 and you get 9 (3 + 6 = 9).

Add the two 55’s and you get 110 (55 + 55 = 110)

So we have 9 and 110.  Take off the zero from 110 and you have 11.  Again, 11 is a very important number in the occult.  So now we have 9 and 11, or 911.  Sound familiar?  

Additionally, if one adds all the digits in 3:55 PST and 6:55 EST one comes up with an interesting number:

3 + 5 + 5 + 6 + 5 + 5 = 29 (Remember Revelation 2:9). 

2 + 9 = 11  

AND  2 x 9 = 18.  18 = 6 + 6 + 6, or 666

AND 1 + 8 = 9

If you think this is just a coincidence, you really ought to read Norway.

It is said that Whitney died at 48 years of age, but she was born August 9, 1963, which would actually make her 49 this year.  

4 + 9 = 13, the number of rebellion, while 4 x 9 = 36.

36 is formed by the numbers 3 and 6, and 3 + 6 = 9 and 3 x 6 = 18.

By the way, Whitney’s birthday is pretty interesting too.  August 9, 1963 or 8/9/1963.

Let’s start with the year, 1963.  Take away the 1 and put it to the side.  You are left with 9, 6, and 3.  Add them together and you get 18.  18 = 666.  Now let’s go back to the the month and day.  Take the 1 that you took from the year and add it to the 8 for the month of August and you get 9.  Add that 9 to the day Whitney was born (9) and you get 18.  And 18 = 6 + 6 + 6 or 666.  

Additionally, add the two 18’s together and you get 36 (18 + 18 = 36).  Now add the 3 and the 6 from 36 together, and you get 9.  And, again, 3 x 9 = 18 or 666.

Now if you think that a person’s birthday coming up with all those 9’s and 18’s is something, what are the odds that the digits of the day that a person dies also adds up to 18?  Astronomical.  Coincidence? Of course not.  When there are too many coincidences, there are no coincidences.  

You would almost think that Whitney Houston’s birth was planned, wouldn’t you?  I have read that in the occult, numerology is so important that births are planned to fall on certain days or add up to certain numbers for the magic that is placed on a person’s life to be effective.  Now if a birth can be planned in this fashion, would it be too hard to plan the death?  Absolutely not.

There is a lot more to this story that really makes me suspicious, especially the fact that Clive Davis’ annual pre-Grammy night celebrity gala was going on downstairs while Whitney’s body was growing cold upstairs.  Ironically and tragically, Clive Davis was supposed to be Whitney Houston’s mentor.  Here’s what guests had to say about it:

“This is just wrong. Her body is still right here in the building, and yet here everyone is out partying and playing her tribute music.  It’s so eerie.”

Another guest said:

“It’s surreal. I can’t believe the body is still here and this is all going on.  I don’t know if its disrespectful, or a celebration of her life.”

If the feeling among Hollywood insiders is that Whitney rebelled, then their lack of compassion makes total sense.  

Now you’re probably thinking that all this sounds good, but I still haven’t proven that Whitney Houston was involved in Satanism.  Well a picture is worth a thousand words.

What follows are still images I captured from a YouTube video featuring Ms. Houston at a live performance she gave in South Africa in 1994.  They are pretty self-explanatory, but I will accompany each photo with a brief description.

This is often referred to as the “Three Rings” or 666 and looks like the familiar “OK” sign.  It is rather fuzzy against the color of her dress, but shows up pretty good in the video at 1:32.

I don’t know what this is called, but a lot of people are doing it.  It’s basically the same thing as the El Diablo hand sign, except the middle fingers, are held together and erect rather than curled underneath.  The separation between the middle fingers and the index and baby fingers makes it clear that something is happening here.  You can see this @ 1:43 of the video.  

Both this hand sign and the one below are associated with the worship of the goddess Diana, now commonly called the Virgin Mary.   Read about the Cult of Mary here.

Whitney Houston flashes modified “hang loose” sign @ 149.

A lot of people are doing this too, especially in Hollywood.  Notice how the the index, middle, and ring fingers are held together with the baby finger held apart.  This hand sign is also associated with the worship of the goddess.  Whitney does this @ 1:49 of the video.

Whitney Houston throws up the Satanic El Diablo hand sign.

There can be no doubt about what Ms. Houston is doing here.  She is mesmerizing her fans.  Now that you have seen this, erase all doubts from your mind.

And as if one is not enough, Whitney hits the crowd with a double wammy.  It may appear a little blurry, but shows up nicely in the video @ 3:37.  Notice both index fingers are pointing at her fans, and the middle fingers are curled.  But look at the sly way she barely extends the baby fingers: just enough for those in the know to see.

I think by now you get the point.  Whitney Houston appears to have been involved in occultism, which should not surprise us.  Nothing is free, and fame and fortune are definitely no exceptions.  

So, if Whitney were, in fact, involved in occultism, what makes me think that she may have wanted out?  Well, according to news reports, the night before she died, she had sung “Jesus Loves Me” at a function alongside Kelly Price.  I know that is not enough, but the callous way in which Clive Baker and the other attendees at the pre-Grammy set continued to party, while Whitney’s body lay cold just a couple of floors above, suggests to me that it did not come as a shock to many, if anyone, that she had died.  That, to me, suggests foreknowledge, and foreknowledge suggests collusion.  But that’s me.

Add to that the numerological markers, and it certainly is cause for pause.

Below is the video of Whitney in concert singing, “I Have Nothing,” in 1994.  You will see that her hands are constantly moving: a trademark of those who perform satanic hand magic. Notice her body movements and speech at the beginning and towards the end of the video and tell me if she acts or sounds anything like the Whitney Houston you know.

She sounds somewhat inebriated or under the influence doesn’t she?  But if you consider the skillful execution of those hand signs, you will realize that there is no way she could do that if she were under the influence—of alcohol that is.  Could she be under another kind of influence, say…demonic?

Doubt it not!

Now that you know what to look for, check out this video of Whitney’s singing debut on the Merv Griffith show at the tender age of 17.  Check out her hands.  You will be totally amazed, as I was.  By the way, I’m not scouring the internet looking for incriminating evidence on Whitney.  I was watching a YouTube video of her “60 Minutes” interview with Diane Sawyer in 2002, when they showed a clip from her singing on Merv Griffith: a clip that showed her execute no fewer than three hand signs in about twenty seconds.  I had to see the whole thing for myself.

When she first starts singing, you will see her make the gesture that the man below is making:

 

And this man is a Satanist as you can tell by the way he holds his cup:

 

The thumbs form the horned devil.  So what seems an innocent gesture, takes on a new meaning.  Keep this in mind as you watch young Whitney.  Her fingers are moving like crazy.

Here is a very moving tribute to Whitney Houston by Wendy Williams.  I’m not a big fan of Williams, not through any fault of hers, but I must admit, she said all the right things here.  She identified with Whitney in a very real way, and was not self-aggrandizing in the least.

In the way of tributes, this is probably as real as it is going to get.  I don’t know if you saw what I saw, but Wendy doesn’t seem any more convinced that Whitney’s death was an accident than I am.  Sometimes what a person doesn’t say can be more powerful than what he does.  Be encouraged and look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

P.S.: To read how Whitney Houston was used to help destroy biblical morality in the United States and to create a generation of single, independent, and rebellious young black women, click here.

 

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New Podcast Episode

Posted on February 12, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace Saints, and to the rest of the world.

We have added the audio version of our article on the phenomenon of Christians marrying unbelievers entitled, “Jesus Said ‘Be Ye Not Unevenly Yoked,’ But If It’s Too Late For That…”

This is only the first part of the audio portion, and we hope to get the second half on iTunes very shortly.  I hope it blesses you.

The Still Man

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Jesus said, “Be Ye Not Unequally Yoked,” But If It’s Too Late For That…Part 2

Posted on February 12, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace Saints.

The second part on this teaching is available for free at the iTunes Store.  Subscribe to our podcast for free here.

May God richly bless you.

The Still Man

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Jesus said, “Be Ye Not Unequally Yoked,” But If It’s Too Late For That…

Posted on February 12, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace unto you, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Many Christians today are married to unsaved people, and are experiencing great difficulties because of it.  The Bible says,

“Be yet not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?” (2 Corinthians 6:14).

Not only does this passage admonish Christians not to fellowship with those who have religious beliefs that are not reconcilable with Christianity, but it admonishes Christians not to enter into covenants of any type with non-believers.  This includes marriage covenants.  The reason for this is simple.  When a man and a woman come together in marriage, they become one flesh (1 Corinthians 6:16).  If they are Christians, they also become one in the Lord, because Scripture says,

“He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit” (1 Corinthians 6:17).

Therefore, the couple is yoked to the Lord.

But because many of us have disobeyed this admonition—either out of rebellion, ignorance, or other reasons—God is not a part of the marriage covenant.  He will not be a party to rebellion.  For this reason, we are experiencing serious trouble in our married lives.  I realize, of course, that Christians find themselves in this situation for a variety of reasons:

1.  A non-Christian marries another non-Christian.  The non-Christian later becomes a Christian, but the unbelieving spouse is unwilling to make a decision for the Lord Jesus.

2.  An immature Christian who lacks discernment marries a professing Christian.  As the Christian grows in wisdom and discernment, the Holy Spirit reveals that her professing spouse is really not a Christian and has no real desire to follow Jesus.

3.  A professing Christian marries a Roman Catholic.  Neither has a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus, so neither is truly a Christian.  The professing Christian may attend church occasionally, accompanied by the Catholic spouse, and, likewise, the Catholic spouse may occasionally attend mass, accompanied by the professing Christian. 

Things work out great for the first few years, because neither spouse has a relationship with Jesus Christ, and, therefore, neither poses a threat to the other’s beliefs.  Later, however, the professing Christian gets saved, and not only learns what Christianity really is, but what Roman Catholicism really is.  For the time being, however, it has not become a problem. 

The couple has a child.  The Catholic spouse wants the child to be baptized into the Roman Catholic church, but the Christian parent does not want this, understanding that Roman Catholicism is idolatry, and that infant baptism is unscriptural.  The Christian spouse has now become a threat to the Catholic spouse, who though only nominally Catholic, is nonetheless unwilling to relinquish her faith or practices.

4.  A true Christian meets and falls in love with a non-believer who is a good person: honest, loving, mature, and responsible, but does not know the Lord.  The Christian knows that she should not marry the unsaved person, but she does so anyway, feeling that because her spouse has so many other good qualities, he will eventually accept the Lord as his Savior.  Many years go by however, and the unbelieving spouse still hasn’t made a decision for Jesus.  This creates problems for the believer, and marital discord follows.

5.  A non-Christian marries a professing Christian, who lives a life just as wicked as he.  When he questions his spouse about her unchristian behavior, the professing Christian says that she is “a work in progress.” Later, the non-Christian hears the Gospel and accepts Jesus Christ as his Savior.  With time the Holy Spirit reveals that his spouse isn’t really saved.  The closer the Christian moves to the Lord, the farther his spouse moves from him.

This is not an exhaustive list, but many are living through experiences like these and can attest to the fact that they can have devastating consequences to one’s marriage and Christian walk.  When a Christian is trying to live a Spirit-filled life that glorifies the Lord Jesus, being married to a non-Christian can be extremely difficult.  If children are a factor, it can be overwhelming.  This should not surprise us, as Jesus told us that the day would come when “A man’s foes shall be they of his own household” (Matthew 10:36).

Though it can be very difficult, Christians who are unequally yoked with unbelievers and are going through difficult times because of it should not be in a hurry to give up on the marriage, especially if some self-styled prophet, “anointed” person, or even your pastor tells you to.  God hates divorce.  Paul speaks about this in 1 Corinthians. 

To help us understand God’s mind on marriage, it is important to understand that Paul is speaking to three groups of people: 1. Christians who are single, 2. Christians who are married to other Christians, and 3. Christians who are married to non-Christians.

To Christians who are single, Paul says:

“I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for them if they abide even as I (single and celibate).  But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn” (1 Corinthians 7:8-9).

Christian singles and widows who cannot handle celibacy should marry to avoid fornication.  God is serious about this.  

To Christians who are married to other Christians, Paul says:

“And unto the married (in Christ) I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:  But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.”

This is a clear commandment:  married Christians: that is, two Christians who got married, should not divorce under any circumstances.  This is because God Himself has ordained their union and God does not make mistakes.  Now, if the wife for any reason decides it is better to leave the house, Scripture says that she should remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband.  This, of course, means that she should keep herself pure and abstain from sexual relations, and her husband should do likewise. 

Reconciliation is a lot easier if both parties do not get sexually involved with anyone else (which won’t happen if they are truly obedient).  If either spouse becomes sexually involved with someone else, there will be major problems, even if the couple reconciles, because adultery will bring you a generational curse.  And a generational curse is a major complication.  We have only to look to the example of King David to understand that God truly hates adultery.  Marital discord is no excuse.

The last group that Paul addresses is Christians who are married to non-Christians.

“But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any [Christian] brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

And the [Christian] woman which hath an husband that believeth not, and if he be pleased to dwell with her, let her not leave him.

Paul says “to the rest” so he doesn’t have to list all the circumstances under which believers find themselves yoked to unbelievers, as I have done.  Before we examine this, it is important to note that this last advice from Paul is not God’s commandment.  Paul is speaking with permission from God.  Jesus, in His mercy, does not want to force the believer to remain in a relationship with a non-believer, especially if adultery is involved. He is leaving that decision to us.

When a Christian marries a non-Christian, problems will arise, because Scripture says,

“Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body?  For two, saith He, shall be one flesh” (1 Corinthians 6:16). 

Symbolically, a harlot in the Bible signifies an apostate church or heathen religion.  So if a Christian marries a non-Christian or a person of another faith (Catholic, Mormon, Muslim, Jehovah’s Witness, Hindu, New Ager, Jew, atheist, etc) then the couple is a harlot in God’s eyes, and God will not unite Himself with a harlot.

Thankfully, God, in His mercy, has made provisions for this, because He understands that we often do things out of ignorance—and yes, even disobedience.  Therefore Paul says that if the unbelieving spouse is willing to stay in the marriage, the believing spouse should not leave.  Why?  Because of the children:  

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the (believing) wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the (believing) husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy” (1 Corinthians 7:12-14).

The passage says that for the children’s sake, the unbelieving spouse is sanctified.  I absolutely love Jesus for this.  He loves children, and He will show us mercy so that our children will be okay.  So, for the sake of the children, God sanctifies even that unbelieving spouse.  And if the unbelieving spouse is sanctified, then the couple is sanctified.  And God says that since the couple is sanctified, then the children are holy.  

Thus, the whole family is holy in God’s sight.  So there is no spiritual reason we have to leave that unbelieving spouse.  

It is important to understand that though God sanctifies the unbeliever for the children’s sake, it is ultimately for the sake of the believer that He does it.  God is honoring the believer’s faithfulness.  So, though God’s admonition is for the believer not to join himself with a non-believer, if you have done so, you are not unclean in the Lord’s sight. Out of His mercy, He has made provision for you.  So, do not listen to anyone who tells you that you must leave the unbeliever because the Bible says so.  This is a lie from the pit of Hell.

There are instances, however, when it may not be expedient for a spouse to remain.  Note that Paul says if the unbelieving spouse be “pleased” to dwell with the believing spouse, the believing spouse should not put her away.  Pleased, in this sense, means not only willing, but happy; and the unbelieving spouse’s willingness to remain in the marriage will be most evident in attitude.  If the unbelieving spouse subjects himself to the believing spouse in manner and attitude, there should be a minimum of marital discord. 

Paul understands that if the unbelieving spouse is pleased to stay with the believing spouse, then that spouse is not averse to the Gospel, even if he won’t readily accept it.  Jesus said that anyone who is not for Him is against Him.  Conversely, anyone that is not against Him is for Him.  If the unbelieving spouse is pleased to remain with the believer, then he is not offended by the Lord Jesus.  There can be a modicum of peace in such a home, for the unbeliever will subject himself to the spouse, and thus, to the Lord.  In this instance, God can still be glorified in the eyes of unbelievers.

But in a house where the unbelieving spouse does not want to leave the marriage, yet is not altogether pleased to dwell together with the believing spouse; such as when the spouse is rebellious to the extent that there is extreme marital discord, it may not be expedient for the believing spouse to remain.  In this instance, every man must search his own conscience, because everyone’s situation will be different.

Let me share my personal testimony with you.  Until three years ago, I lived with my family in Munich, Germany, in a neighborhood that was made up primarily of Roman Catholics and Muslims.  I believe I was the only Christian in my neighborhood.  My wife was raised a Roman Catholic, though she attends a “Christian” church.  She was always somewhat rebellious, but she became even more so when I got saved.  

I always thought my wife was a Christian, but after a couple of years I realized that she wasn’t.  During those two years, she became increasingly rebellious to the extent that I could no longer exert any authority over her.  If I tried, there was a furious argument.  I realized that these arguments did not glorify Christ and made Christianity look weak before non-believers. 

The Scriptures say that non-believers can be won to the Lord by observing the chaste behavior of believing wives (1 Pet. 3:1-2).  But our behavior was having the opposite effect.  Here I was trying to witness to Catholics and Muslims that Jesus Christ is the only Way, yet the only couple that could be heard for literally miles was my wife and I.   Compared to us, the Catholics and Muslims appeared to have ideal marriages.  Our behavior was actually compromising my testimony.  So I prayed on it and searched the Scriptures, and finally, after having considered it for more than a year, I made the painful decision to leave.  God showed me in several ways that He supported this decision. 

That was more than three years ago, and I have been separated from my children for almost two years.  It has been very hard.  But following Jesus is going to cost you something.  It may not cost you your family, but that is the price that some of us have had to pay.

But God is good.  During the time my children were with me, I preached Jesus constantly, and my children and I grew together spiritually.  Moreover, in Germany I had tried for years to eliminate or at least scale down television watching in our home to no avail.  While the children were with me, however, there was no television in our home, so when they weren’t at school, the children were always drawing, reading, writing stories, putting on plays, reading their Bibles and Christian tracts, and playing together.  There were no video games or computer games, and I allowed them to get on the computer only if I were there to supervise, and that was only on rare occasions.  They were never bored, as it is amazing what children can come up with to keep themselves occupied if parents would only show an interest in them.  They like to be noticed.

I waited until I really felt they knew what they were doing before I asked my two youngest daughters—then nine and ten years old—to make a decision for Jesus, which they did.  A year later, I baptized them.  On that same day, my son also made his decision for Christ, and I baptized him too.  Two weeks later, after a year and a half with me, they were back in Germany with their mother.  This is only a brief synopsis of the story.  If I were to explain the whole thing, one would clearly see God’s hand in this.  If you’d like to know more, click here.

Even after three years, my wife is bound and determined not to recognize my authority.  Though she is willing to dwell with me, she is not “pleased” to dwell with me.  There is a big difference.  As for me, all during our separation, I have remained pure, and I have neither divorced my wife nor commenced a relationship with anyone else.  It is not about me and what I want.  It’s about Jesus and doing what He wants. 

Doing the Lord’s will can be very hard, but I know what He delivered me from.  Occasionally, I consider 1 Corinthians 7 and ask the Lord to show me if I am not doing His will.  Though I understand this Scripture better today than when I made my decision three years ago, I am no less certain it was the right thing to do.  But my situation is unique, as is yours.

So, don’t be in a hurry to leave that unbelieving spouse or to abandon a marriage because there are problems.  Take it to the Lord in prayer.  He may yet save that unbelieving spouse.

“For what knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband?  Or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?” (1 Corinthians 7:16).

You and your spouse must do everything you can to remain together.  Satan hates marriage, so you know he is going to do everything he can to destroy yours–especially if you are a Christian.  You must pray for your unbelieving spouse, and, if possible, you and your spouse must pray together: sincerely, earnestly, fervently.  Hang in there.  God hears you.

If you are already separated, remain pure, stay in prayer for your spouse, and use this opportunity to grow closer to the Lord Jesus by reading His Word.  Believe me, if you really want to do the will of God in this sinful world, you are going to have to stay yoked to Jesus to not succumb to temptation.  And that is the best thing that could ever happen to you.  

In case you are so frustrated and sad that you are wondering if you should have even married that unsaved person (or even that saved person), let me share this passage with you:

“Art thou bound unto a wife?  Seek not to be loosed.”  But and if thou marry, thou hast not sinned…”

God absolutely loves marriage.  This passage lets you know that just because you married that unbeliever (against God’s advice) you have not sinned.  Now, you are going to have some problems, but they are not insurmountable.  The key is patience, perseverance, and prayer.  Let us do that which is pleasing in God’s sight.  Let us put His will above our own.

There is one more very important thing.  If your spouse is manifesting psychological problems or struggling with some other spiritual malady such as addiction, anger issues, depression, “bipolar disorder,” or some other serious problem, it’s possible he or she is under a generational curse.  This can be true even if they are a Christian.  

There are those, for example, who name the name of Christ, yet are Freemasons. Freemasonry is witchcraft, and a Christian who is a Freemason will have serious problems in his Christian walk.  Make no mistake about that.  If this sounds like your situation or that of your spouse, please read this article on Generational Curses to learn how you or your spouse can be set free. 

If your spouse is under a generational curse, he or she will require special love, patience, prayer, understanding and spiritual discernment on your part.  It will be a tough battle.  I ought to know: I’m involved in such a battle right now.  But these types of battles are the very ones that most glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.  Believe me.

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As always my beloved brothers and sisters, stay encouraged and look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.

Update August 9, 2013:  After a four-year separation, my wife and I have reconciled, and have been together again since April 2012.  God is good!  Please pray for us, Saints, because Satan hates this marriage, and is doing everything he can to destroy it.

The Still Man

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His Mercy Endureth Forever

Posted on February 11, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace to a peculiar people, and greetings to those who are still groping about in darkness.

Today I got my gas bill (thank God, it was not astronomical) and it caused me to reflect on the goodness of God.  You see, we in the Midwest and in the South have been enjoying unseasonably warm weather for this time of year.  In St. Louis, Missouri, February is one of the coldest months of the year, and normally we would be having quite a bit of snowfall.  But we have only had one snowfall this winter, and what had fallen was gone in a couple of days.

I had gotten accustomed to this warm weather and therefore, had not given much thought to the fact that this warm spell is proof that God is good all the time; and all the time, God is good.

For you see, it is not only Christians; that is, those who are trusting in the blood of Jesus Christ for their salvation, who are enjoying the blessing of warmer temperatures than normal, but also those who have not, as well as those who will not, accept the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Yet, God, in His mercy, allows the sun to shine on the unbelievers as well as the believers.

And don’t, for one minute, think that God could not make the sun to shine only on those who obey Him, while leaving all those who disobey Him in total darkness; or send freezing rain and snow on the ungodly, but allow the sun to light on the faces of those who fear Him.  He could certainly do these things, and more, if it were His will.

Recall that God smote the Egyptians with all manner of plagues, including the plague of darkness—darkness so profound, that one could not see one’s hand in front of one’s face: darkness so deep, that it could be felt (Exodus 10:21).  But in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, not one plague visited them.  God smote only the wicked and spared His people.

Oh yes, God can do it.  But He doesn’t; because He is merciful.

We would do well to study this objective lesson from the Egyptians.  God can indeed smite only the disobedient and spare those who fear Him, but because He is merciful and gracious, He blesses the ungodly as well as the righteous.

“[God] giveth food to all flesh: for His mercy endureth forever.

“Oh give thanks unto the God of heaven: for His mercy endureth forever” (Psalm 136:25-26).

Be encouraged and look up; for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

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No Jesus, No Change; Know Jesus, Know Change

Posted on February 10, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace, saints, and greetings to the children of disobedience.

Homosexuality has made serious inroads into mainstream America in the last decade.  So much so, that it is no longer considered taboo to be a homosexual.  In fact, in some circles it is even considered “cool.”  But is it cool?  Not to God it isn’t.  Of all the sins that God hates, He seems to hate homosexuality a lot more than all the rest.  After all, He destroyed Sodom (along with Gomorrah and all the other cities of the plain) because, with the exception of a literal handful of men, the whole city was given over to homosexuality.

Understand that God does not hate homosexuals, but He certainly hates the sin of homosexuality.  God has given us his model of manhood in the Bible.  Satan, the enemy of God and of man, wants to forever destroy God’s model of manhood and supplant it with his own twisted version.  And as “the god of this world,” he is attempting to do just that by promoting homosexuality on an unprecedented scale.  And the world is responding: people are “coming out” in droves.  

Many, however, would like to “come out” of the homosexual lifestyle, but resign themselves to it, because they have come to believe the propaganda that they were “born that way,” and thus, can never change.  But my Bible tells me “if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature” (2 Corinthians 5:17).  Jesus can change anyone.

And to prove it to you, I want to share with you the moving testimony of a former homosexual whom Jesus freed from bondage.  Sad, but powerful, it demonstrates the power of Jesus Christ to break any and all strongholds—even homosexuality.  

This man shares some incredible insight on the sexual aspect of spiritual warfare. As you will see, with Satan, sex and sexuality are potent weapons, and he uses them to destroy a child’s innocence and morality and ultimately to turn the child away from God.  His ultimate goal is to make certain that when the child grows to adulthood, he will reject the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

I post this here without the permission of the author, who I could not reach.  But I give him full credit for its authorship.  I believe he would want as many as possible to benefit from his testimony. 

WARNING: Though not graphic, some details may be somewhat disturbing.

[BEGIN TESTIMONY] 

“Why Me?” (My Personal Testimony)

—by Pastor Walter L. Davis, III, age 38

“In this particular scripture, the Apostle Paul is writing to the saints at Corinth concerning the major conflicts and wrongful acts taking place in the church. In other words, he was acknowledging that even though this church was skillful in their gifts, loved God and believed His Word; there were certain evil, sinful lifestyles that yet abound. One sin he pointed out was homosexuality—an ongoing controversial issue that is accepted in the world and plaguing the church.

The advantage I have in writing this is that I speak from both sides.“Paul knew that some were bound by this lifestyle; he concedes that ye are washed and sanctified indicating that there is deliverance for whoever is bound by this sin. I intend to provide scriptural evidence, along with other important facets, to prove that homosexuality is a sin. God abhors it; yet He loves the person trapped in it. It is His desire that we be delivered from all sin and unrighteousness.

“I may offend you, but that is part of the ministry that comes with defending the truth of God’s Word. I have experienced many things. I do not have all the answers, but I do know there is help and hope for the homosexual male and female. Do not become bored. The devil does not want you to read this because many of you may have lived these experiences. Besides, the more I testify the more God reinforces my deliverance (Revelation 12:11).

“At the time of this writing, I am 38 years old, happily married for four years, the father of a beautiful daughter, an ordained elder and pastor in the Church of God in Christ, a prophet of God and a teacher of the Word. But, I lived the life of a homosexual for thirty agonizing years both in and out of the church. This is my story.

“I had often questioned myself:

  • Was I born gay? Was I born to be gay? Is being gay a curse or a gift? Why cant I love a man the way I am expected to love a woman? What is the difference—isn’t love love?
  • Does it matter whom I love as long as it does not hurt anyone?

“These and other questions have plagued the minds of those who were and are trapped in this circus of confusion. The advantage I have in writing this is that I speak from both sides. I am not being hypocritical or prejudice. I know the truth. I know the lies. I know the compromise. I know the cover-up. I know the set up. And it is all a trick of the devil.

“I was born to parents who were already dysfunctional. Sorry Ma and Dad, but it is the truth. My mother married my father because it was her way of escaping from being a “PK” (Preachers Kid). The harsh life of being a PK turned her away from the true church, the body of Christ, and God. She worked in the church because her father was the pastor and, as a result, she saw a lot of hypocrisy. I have heard my mother say, “I would rather go to hell than to live in heaven with these phonies.” As you can see, I inherited the generational curse of escapism from my mother.

“My father was an orphan. His father died when he was born and his mother did not want him. His mother allowed a lady to take him as a foster child, but she was not permitted to adopt him. By not knowing his father nor why his mother did not want him left him open and vulnerable. Because my father did not have a father, he never knew what is was like to be a father; nor did he know how to be a man. He just knew how to be a male being; therefore, another generational curse was passed on. (Exodus 34:7)

“I am the first child and only son born to my parents. I am the third generation on both sides to carry on either the curse or the blessings. At the age of three, homosexuality was introduced to me by the way of rape and other circumstances. The devil is a cunning and deceptive counterfeiter; just as God has a will for your life so does the devil. He works by all means, inside and outside the church. (John 10:10, II Corinthians 11:13-15) A brother in our church who was in love with my father, raped me. He hated my mother because he could not have my father. In an effort to retaliate against my parents for getting married, a seed of sexual, moral, and emotional destruction was planted in my life.

“Two men raped me. The devil used them to trap me because I wanted the love of my father. Since I could not get it I turned to other men. I felt this was the only way I was going to bonded with a man. Later, two women also raped me. Do you see Satan’s concept of deception for my life? Satan used the two women to scare me away from the natural use of a woman’s love. (Romans 1:27)

“I was in church for years and would always hear the devil say to me, “God made a mistake when He made you a boy. That is why girls do not like you; people make fun of you; and your father does not want anything to do with you. You are different”, (subliminal suggestions). People did not help either, especially church folks and family members.

“After constantly being called a “sissy” and a “faggot” and other degrading terms sooner or later your life is bound to become a self-fulfilling prophecy, (Proverbs 18:21). When people continue to hear negative things about themselves, especially children in their growing, molding, and vulnerable stage, they will grow up exhibiting the behaviors that were spoken over their lives. I began to live the words that were imparted into my spirit. I wanted to touch and feel on boys; I wanted to act like a girl. I remember wearing my mothers shoes and dresses and putting on her makeup and wigs. It felt natural.

“The torment of anal and oral sex was so traumatic it caused me to inflict pain in the lives of others. I have three sisters. I grew up hating them because it seemed like Daddy loved them more than he loved me. I would abuse them. The devil will not only destroy your life, but he will use you to destroy the lives of others. Words could not articulate their experiences and the emotional damage I caused. I try not to think about it because it still hurts knowing I could have killed my sisters. Thank God for His mercy and protection.

“As an adolescent, I had low self-esteem. I did not feel I was good at anything. While in school, I would get jumped and forced to have sex with another boy. I did not play sports, but I loved church. You could not get me away from it. I loved to sing, shout, and scream. Nevertheless, I was extremely feminine. People would say, “Why don’t you act like a boy!” But, no one would take the time to show me how, not even the saints.

“I did not understand what being a sissy or a faggot was; nor did I understand what being “funny” was all about. I once asked my cousin, “What is a sissy?” She said, “You, the greatest of them all.” It was at that time, I said to myself, “Well, maybe since I am a sissy and I act like a girl, I may as well be a girl.” I remember telling people when I get older I was going to have a sex change operation. I started smoking cigarettes, doing drugs, engaging in sexual acts with boys, and getting involved in pornography and other forms of witchcraft.

“I always wanted to be saved. I loved the Bible. I thought it was the greatest book ever written. When my father was in Vietnam he sent my mother a family Bible. I remember the first scripture I read on my own.  John 3:16. It sounded like poetry to me. I could hear rivers of Living Water running through me. Thank God for the Word. If I did not have the Word of God within me in the midst of my struggles, I would be destroyed today.

“I was engaged 6 times to 5 different ladies. I was trying to find my identity and be what everybody wanted me to be – their interpretation of a man. They did not know that heterosexual sex does not cure homosexuality. It takes the blood of Jesus Christ to heal and deliver you from all sin and bondage.

“For years I would fast and pray, constantly seeking God for my deliverance. After the fifth engagement, I convinced myself I would remain celibate and single and do God’s will. But, in order to do God’s will, you have to do it God’s way. The fulfillment of my deliverance began in October 1995, when I attended a “Manpower” conference hosted by Bishop TD Jakes.

Disclaimer: TD Jakes has some questionable beliefs, one of which is that there are many paths to God.  This is clearly counter to Jesus’ words in John 14:6. We do not share this belief, of course, but we leave it here because it is part of this man’s testimony.

“The theme that year was, “Loose the Man and Let Him Go”. Although none of the brothers I was traveling with knew my lifestyle, the Lord used them to reveal that in order for my deliverance to be complete I had to accept God’s total will. It was not until we were on our way back from the conference that God began to deal with me about His will for my life. The Lord and I were having an argument. He kept saying, “Marriage”, and I kept saying, “No, no, no”. I did not want to ruin anyone’s life, but before I knew it I yelled, “Ok, Lord, I will get married.” Once I began to submit to the voice of the Lord, my life took on a whole new meaning.

“When we arrived in New York, I was walking in total victory. Two years later, the Lord blessed me to marry one of the greatest women in the world. Deliverance does not happen overnight, it is an ongoing process. Nevertheless, it is mine in Jesus name! Although I am free from the bondage of homosexuality, I have discovered that the fight is not over. The devil is still busy; he is not through tempting me. According to Luke 4:13, we have to continue to crucify the flesh, denounce the works of darkness in our lives and let Christ reign supreme and complete on a daily basis. Yes, there is help. Yes, there is hope. Yes, you can walk in total victory and freedom in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:1).”

[END TESTIMONY]

So, you see, change is possible: even for someone trapped in homosexuality. With Jesus Christ, all things are possible.  But you have to want it.

If you are trapped in the homosexual lifestyle or any sexual sin like adultery, sexual promiscuity, hypersexuality (nymphomania), pedophilia, pornography, or any other form of sexual bondage—if you are trapped and long to be free, why don’t you tell Jesus?  He can set you free.  And who the Son frees is free indeed.

Click here to be set free.

Be encouraged and look up; for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

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New Podcast Episode

Posted on February 8, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace, brethren.  

In keeping with the sequence of our podcasts on salvation, we’ve recorded the latest episode, which is on baptism.  If you haven’t read our post on baptism, you really should.

However if you’d rather just listen to it, it’s available at the iTunes Store.  You can subscribe to our free podcast here.

I hope you enjoy it.

The Still Man

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Update on Pastor Mulinde

Posted on February 8, 2012 by The Still Man

Grace and peace to the brethren in Christ Jesus.

Yesterday, I related to you my intent to interview Pastor Umar Mulinde, the Ugandan pastor now hospitalized at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Israel for injuries received when he was attacked for the Word of God.

Well, thank God, I managed to speak briefly with the good pastor this morning, and though he was somewhat tired, I can report to you that despite his grave injuries, his spirit is very much intact.  I asked him what were his most pressing concerns, and, like any good father, his thoughts and fears are towards his family.

Pastor Mulinde has six young children—four of whom are school aged—and his wife is a stay-at-home mom, caring for the youngest two.  So Pastor Mulinde is the breadwinner for the family, but the breadwinner is laid up in the hospital, unable to do what a breadwinner does.  He says that his church is doing what they can for him, but, with six children, he will need quite a bit of help.  He is also scheduled for more surgery and would like for his wife to return to Israel to be by his side at that time.  He is far away from home, away from the care and support of his family and friends.  So, as you can see, Pastor Mulinde has cause for concern.

I urge you, dear brethren, to do what you can to help Pastor Mulinde.  He is a very humble man, and there was no hint of self-pity in his voice.  But it was clear that, as a father, he is worried about his family.

I asked him if it would be alright to wire money to him through Western Union, and he agreed that would be a great help to him.  Saints, let’s do what we can for Pastor Mulinde. Any amount, no matter how small, would be greatly appreciated, and besides the material benefit, would be a great morale booster for a man who was attacked, because he stood up for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  

If you are someone who wants to witness, but don’t have the courage to, you can help support someone who does.  Here is your chance to help one of the fallen front line soldiers in this spiritual war.  And believe me, God will honor it.

It is very simple to wire money through Western Union.   The Chaim Sheba Medical Center is in Tel Hashomer, Israel, 52621, and you can give the phone number as +972-3-530-3030.  Please send your support to Pastor Umar Mulinde.

I asked Pastor Mulinde if there were anything he wanted to say to the Western Church. This is what he said:

“Jesus preached the Message without compromise: we must not fear for our lives.  I was attacked not because I am a criminal, but because I opened my Bible.  

“Never compromise the true teachings of Jesus Christ.  Stay bold. Return to the Great Commission.  Don’t fear the challenge. We are dying for right.  For for me to live is Christ; and to die is gain.”

It was clear, when he spoke these words, why some see him as a threat.  This man is bold: He is bold for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  And that boldness comes out when he speaks. We would do well to learn from his example.

Please do what you can to help Pastor Mulinde and his family, however the Lord leads you.  On behalf of Pastor Umar Mulinde, I thank you in advance.

The following is a two-part series on Pastor Mulinde.

The Still Man

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Pastor Umar Mulinde: Still Bearing About In The Body

Posted on February 7, 2012 by The Still Man

Ugandan Pastor Umar Mulinde at Chaim Sheba Medical Center.

Grace, mercy, and peace unto the saints of God, and blessings upon those who have yet to know the gift of salvation which is in Christ Jesus.

I have a status update on Bishop Umar Mulinde, the Ugandan pastor who, in December of last year, was attacked by Muslims, who threw acid in his face.

Today, a representative of the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, in Israel, gave us the following information concerning Pastor Mulinde’s condition.  The Chaim Sheba Medical Center, as many of you may know, has been treating Pastor Mulinde free of charge.  On behalf of concerned Christians everywhere, we here would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Chaim Sheba Medical Center for this act of kindness and grace extended to Pastor Mulinde and his family.  

The information we received is as follows:

“Pastor Mulinde is making slow but good progress.  Last week he had two skin graft operations on his face.  He still needs more, as well as corneal replacement surgery [to restore his eyesight].  

He is walking around the hospital quite a bit; fully bandaged on his face, and is very thankful to everyone.  

I am told that his wife left last week for Uganda to take care of their kids.”  [Brackets mine.]  

This is good news.  Any progress—slow or fast—is good progress.  I’m not very familiar with the skin graft procedure, but I’m sure it is not easy for the patient.  Mulinde had two in one week and more are needed.  Please pray for Pastor Mulinde that this process is a complete success.  

In that the representative told me that Pastor Mulinde’s wife only just returned to Uganda last week, it is likely that she has been by his side since he was admitted to the Chaim Sheba Medical Center or shortly thereafter.  In that his progress has been slow and he is still scheduled to receive more skin grafts and eye surgery, it is likely Pastor Mulinde will be in the hospital for at least another month.

As we discussed in our earlier post concerning Pastor Mulinde, his family will be in need of financial assistance.  And now that we know for certain that his wife and children are back home in Uganda, while Mulinde must remain in Israel for a time, he will need to be in contact with his family for moral support and encouragement.  The representative also told me that the Mulinde family has been receiving threats, so Pastor Mulinde’s family will need his support and encouragement as much as he will need theirs.

That is where we come in, dear readers.  You and I can do our part to help Pastor Mulinde and his family weather this difficult storm.  The Chaim Sheba Medical Center has already provided a monumental service to Pastor Mulinde—one for which they have earned my eternal respect and gratitude.  God’s people Israel came through for one of the members of the Body of Christ.  The Natural Olive Tree cared for one of the wild olive branches that was grafted in.

But they cannot do everything alone.  It would not be right to ask more of the Chaim Sheba Medical Center than they have already done and have yet committed to do.  Cannot the Body of Christ defer at least some of Pastor Mulinde’s expenses?  Would it not serve to encourage the staff at the Chaim Sheba Medical Center if Pastor Mulinde could at least, if needed, pay for some of his meals, telephone calls, and/or television? I’m convinced that it would.  It would also help his wife a great deal to be able to replace even a meager portion of her husband’s support.  Every little bit helps.

Saints, I am not asking that you reach down deep into your pockets.  I know how difficult that could be in this economy.  But I am asking that you be willing to give whatever the Lord leads you.  It would make a tremendous difference in this man’s life, and would encourage him and help to alleviate his concerns for his family’s welfare.  

I am in the process of arranging a telephone interview with Pastor Mulinde, during which I hope to ask him what his most pressing needs are, and what we can do to help.  If this interview takes place—God willing—I will inform you immediately.

Pastor Mulinde is on the front lines—the infantry—in this spiritual war.  And it is a war. Not all are called to serve in the infantry.  Many are called to serve in support roles. Supply and logistics, maintenance, food and substinence, morale and recreation, medical, and many other capacities are all vitally important to the success of the military.  

But without the infantry, there can be no victory.  Without the front line troops, we might just as well lay down our weapons and give up.  The battle is lost.  One of our infantrymen is wounded.  He needs our help and support.  Won’t you help?  

It is our duty to come to the assistance of the Persecuted Church: we, who “have not yet resisted unto blood.”  

I’ll keep you posted of further developments.

Be encouraged and look up; for your redemption draweth night.

The Still Man

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Pretty in Pink: Justin Bieber

Posted on February 4, 2012 by The Still Man
Pretty in Pink: Teenage heartthrob Justin Bieber.

Grace and peace to the brethren and greetings to the lost.

Teen heartthrob, Justin Bieber is as ubiquitous these days as Kim Kardashian.  He also must really be in touch with his “feminine side,” as one would have to be, to walk around town comfortably in all this pink.  What parent (gay parents aside) would let their son walk around in this ensemble?

Justin Bieber flashes the Satanic El Diablo sign.

Well the el Diablo hand sign that Mr. Bieber is flashing ought to clue us in on just who gave this young man permission to wear this pink getup.  Satan is the father of all things wrong, and this is just wrong. 

Satan is the antithesis of God.  If God is for it, Satan is against it.  God has set the standard for manhood in the Bible, but Satan doesn’t like that, so he tries to supplant God’s model with his own twisted version.  Mr. Bieber is conveying the message to impressionable young American boys that it’s OK to get in touch with your feminine side.  And lots of pre-pubescent and adolescent young boys are following suit.

They want to be just like Justin Bieber.  Why?  Because he is just to die for.  Everywhere Bieber goes, little teenage girls are swooning and passing out, even though he is one of the most effeminate-looking boys I have ever seen.  I mean, what is Bieber’s most distinguishing feature?  His bangs.  His bangs.

Justin Bieber is helping to re-define what masculinity is, and if you look closely at the clothes and hairstyles of our young people today—especially entertainers—you will see that they are getting more and more gender neutral each day.  It is getting so bad that a young man can put on a pair of lady’s pants and walk down the street and no one would bat an eye.  As a matter of fact, Justin Bieber, by his own admission, does just that.

What’s worse is that Justin Bieber and those like him are also changing girls’ expectations of masculinity, so that girls no longer look for the same qualities in boys as they used to.  Over and over again, I am hearing girls complaining that their boyfriends “aren’t sensitive enough.”

The Bible doesn’t tell boys that they need to be sensitive.  They need to be strong (not necessarily of body, but of character—morally strong), obedient, responsible, accountable, hard working, loving, and God-fearing—not sensitive.  Yet, Satan would have us believe that the more effeminate a man is, the more sensitive and responsive to a woman’s needs he will be, and he has managed to beguile an entire generation of young men and women into believing this lie.

Changing the definition of masculinity is a goal of the homosexual movement, as only homosexuals and lesbians would benefit from this.  Think about it: What do you think a woman will do when she can’t find a man sensitive enough to meet her needs?  That’s right.  She will find a woman—a lesbian woman—who, being a woman, is naturally sensitive, but also strong.

And if men are increasingly dressing like women, smelling like women, and wearing their hair like women, eventually they are going to be attractive to other men, and will be lured into homosexuality, thus depleting the pool of eligible men for heterosexual women to choose from, leaving them with a dilemma.  For, if men are going around acting like women, what’s a girl to do?

The homosexual community must be beside themselves with glee (pun intended).

News Flash: Effeminate men are only cool on Bizarro World.

Be encouraged and look up; for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

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“There’s No Way I Could Do That”

Posted on February 2, 2012 by The Still Man
Meredith Emerson

Meredith Emerson

Grace and peace to the brethren and greetings to those in the world.

Yesterday I was on a particular site which advocates citizens’ Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.  I came upon the site by happenstance as the site’s owner is also a preacher, and I was listening to his podcast when he gave his contact information, which included his web address.  When I went to his website, I learned that besides being a very articulate and intelligent individual, he is also a staunch supporter of gun rights, and advocates the importance of women arming themselves to protect them from predators.  

To that end, his site links to another where one can take the classroom portion of the instruction necessary to obtain a concealed carry permit online.  As proof of the importance for women to arm themselves, they cited the real-world case of Meredith Emerson, a young woman who was kidnapped, raped, and killed while hiking in the wilderness with her dog.  You can read the original story here.

The article stated that Meredith was very fit, and had experience in two forms of martial arts.  According to the article, her killer admitted in an interview that she “wouldn’t stop fighting” and yelling at him and actually managed to disarm the man of a knife and a baton.  Unfortunately, for all her tenacity, the man ultimately overpowered her with repeated blows to the face.  She managed to stall the inevitable for three days, but ultimately the man raped, killed, and decapitated Meredith.

As if this callous murder wasn’t enough, the killer admitted that he considered killing the woman’s dog also, to make sure he couldn’t be later identified, saying, “If I wanted to ensure that no one would associate the dog with her, I would’ve killed the dog, but there’s no way I could do that.”

“There’s no way I could do that,” this murderer said.  Yet it was no problem for him to not only rape and kill Meredith Emerson, but also mutilate her corpse.  I was amazed by this statement and instantly reflected on our article, Animal Rights and the NWO, wherein we discuss the rabid animal activism we see in America and Europe and how the animal rights movement devalues human life by exalting animals.

You see, the animal rights movement profanes God’s Word by claiming that man is just a higher-evolved species of animal.  But when Noah came out of the Ark, God told him:

“Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things” (Genesis 9:3).

God said “every moving thing that liveth.”  That means birds, fish, animals, even reptiles are suitable for food for mankind.  Animals then, cannot be on the same level as human beings.  God has given man dominion over all other life forms.  The animal rights movement, then, is counter to the Word of God, in it’s claim that humans are just another species of animal.  Not only does this demean human beings, but it profanes God’s Word, which is exactly what Satan had in mind.

The importance of this is that the New World Order, according to the Bible, will be satanic and based on witchcraft and witchcraft beliefs.  The core doctrine of Satanism, witchcraft, and The New Age is embodied in this statement attributed to Satanist Aleister Crowley:

“Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”

In other words, if it feels good, do it, even if it means murder.

But as we have just seen, there seems to be a caveat to this rule.  Animals, at least for the time being, are off-limits.  You can get in more trouble for killing a dog than for killing a human being.

Consider Michael Vick.  Vick did time in jail for his dogfighting activities and was ostracized by most of America when it was discovered how he destroyed some of those animals that were no longer able to fight.  The fallout, fueled by the media, was so bad that Vick will likely never fully recover from it.

Now compare this to the popularity that many serial killers, murderers, and gangsters enjoy in the media.  Many of these people enjoy a cult following and the fact that they were and are responsible for the deaths of many people is all but forgotten.  Am I the only one who sees a problem with this?

The animal rights movement is directly responsible for this phenomenon.  One purpose for exalting animals is to devalue human life so that it will no longer be a bad thing to kill someone.  This is very important, because for the Antichrist to commit the wholesale slaughter of whole groups of people who are deemed unfit to live in the New World Order, with the sanction of the people, human life must be devalued.  And this murderer’s statement is proof that placing humans and animals on the same footing has accomplished this very thing.

Satan is also using the animal rights movement to incense animal lovers against the God of the Bible, by making Him appear cruel and insensitive.  God gave man dominion over all living things, and He also said that they were fit for human consumption.  We disregard God’s Word and elevate animals into the position of humans, while simultaneously lowering man into the position of animal.  Consequently, the life of a dog has more value in the minds of many than does the life of a human being.

While I don’t believe God minds us loving animals, as we were created to love, I don’t think He wanted us to supplant the love we should feel for each other and for Him with an inordinate affection for dogs and cats (Colossians 3:5).  Do you know that at one animal lover’s website I visited some time ago, one person actually wondered if his dog would be raptured before or after him?  I kid you not.  So not only do we ignore God’s Word by exalting animals, but we rewrite the Bible to accommodate it.  This is a heresy.

Can you see that instead of us having the dominion over animals, animals now have dominion over us?  Cruelty to animals is wrong—plain and simple.  But the answer is not to give animals human rights.  The answer is to obey God’s Word concerning animals:

“A righteous man regardeth (values) the life of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel” (Proverbs 12:10). 

We will soon regret not listening to Him. 

Be encouraged and look up; for your redemption draweth nigh.

The Still Man

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