Back to Basics

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Just when you thought there was no way possible to cover or subdue the record of five trillion in debt and the most joblessness since the depression, the master politician starts making announcements that catch the attention, not just of the country, but of the entire world.

Biblically based ministers of the gospel have resented the fact that in the daily news cycle the issue of America’s moral decline has consistently been placed on the back burner and the economy was all that was ever discussed. Along comes Barack Obama who manages to put the so called ‘hot button’ issues back on the front burner and brings them up to a boil in record time. With a dismal record of his own, the distraction is at least getting him plenty of attention, which in politics, will do fine if you haven’t much else to go on.

Oddly, Mr. Obama may have overstepped the bounds of his own devices. He pulled out the very worst subject, at the very worst time, with his recent announcement that he is up for gay marriage. Don’t look now, but Obama’s best advisors have forgotten to tell him that the issue of marriage is not just a political issue; it has its roots in our biblical foundations, traditions, the laws of nature and the very moral underpinnings of the nation.

This is the pot we don’t want anyone to boil, much less to pull it to the front of the stove, to boil over, just for a political distraction to be used to bolster a sagging campaign.

Creating a circus like element to his campaign was augmented by the now famous cover of Newsweek magazine that depicts Obama with a rainbow colored halo over his head. Although the halo or the ‘nimbus’ is not something ever mentioned in the bible; it is part of the art world and has been used for many centuries. Christian art began the use of the halo around the fourth century AD.

What brings this particular circus attraction to the very border of blasphemy is the fact that while not biblical it is commonly accepted that the halo represents the presence of the Holy Spirit in a person’s life.

God does not change his moral laws and he doesn’t care what LGBT social engineers are trying to mold into shape for the last day’s twists and turns in the social fabric of this, or any other nation. If marriage was declared to take place only between one man and one woman, it is a declaration that supersedes any from the past, present or future – it is a law from the realm of eternity. It is a law, accepted or not, that God declares we will all answer to at some time in our lives, be it now or later.

Even worse is the fact, that while all sins are forgivable – one is not. The sin of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is so abominable, that it cannot be forgiven. (Mt 12: 31) It is the easiest sin to identify because it is one of the most perverse. It is attributing evil to the Holy Spirit.

Only days after the Vice President announced he was comfortable with same sex marriages; President Obama announced his newly revised (Evolved) position on gay marriage. The debate has been whether Joe Biden forced the Presidents proclamation and boxed him in, but it may be that he used Biden to test the waters before he un-closeted his new position on the issue.

No one can argue with the polls that show that a majority of people between ages 18-29 would side with gay marriage, even as most between ages 29-60 would reject gay marriage completely. Mr. Obama is busy trying to persuade the youth who have all the PC gab and Steve Jobs gadgets to gather in his camp. Most of those in the other age group are jumping ship before it hits the iceberg at full speed. The result of this awakening in the political realm; will be made known on November 6, 2012.

It goes without saying that since there is little chance or enough time between now and November 6, to enact a gay marriage bill or executive order that Mr. Obama has managed to buy the gay community’s vote for the mere price of a well timed statement.

In the realm of prophecy this is not surprising because a generation is predicted to come before the rise of all ‘last days’ portents that will be all but void of conscience, traditional morality and completely in rebellion against God’s revealed word.

All the business of polls, trends and evolving viewpoints take nothing away from the prophetic message or the moral teachings of the Bible. In fact, they only accent and punctuate the promises that solidly declare that in the days of that generation the world will change beyond recognition, but it will not end well.

The spirit of anti-Christ precedes the coming of the man who the Bible refers to as the Anti-Christ. All this requires that a generation of militant non-believers be present to welcome in the man and willfully and exuberantly give him the rule over the entire world.

Under this man ignoring God’s laws will become normal, but that will quickly capitulate to active open resistance against any that refuse to bend under the rule of anti-Christ. The troublesome non-compliant believers will eventually be put to death.

“And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.” (Rev 13: 7)

Even as the prophesied generation is forming; they will be denying that anything like that could ever happen – Witness today!

Like young people drawn to the noise of the party, an unsuspecting world will hear what their lack of morality falls into sync with, and will be drawn up like the sucking of a mammoth tornado.

I have warned for over half my lifetime that the generation spoken of in writ, has been forming and with the President’s proclamation, there is little chance for error.

With Europe chomping at the bit for one strong ruler and America falling prey to the liberal Godless mindset in its choices for leaders, the stage is set. Time is short.

Gay marriage opponents have won bans or amendments 32 times on ballot measures since 1998. Joe Biden, like his boss, doesn’t seem to care much for the general consensus of voters around the country and he seemed even a bit cocky in his announcement that he is okay with men who want to marry men, and women that want to marry women.

Biden ignored the 4,000 year old solid scriptural teaching to offer his all new definition of marriage to NBC’s Meet the Press, Sunday May 6, 2012 at Mellon Auditorium in Washington.

Biden told his audience that – “marriage should be about being loyal to someone you love, whether that marriage is between a man and a woman, two men or two women.”

With such a high official of the U. S. government chiming in with both his good attitude and an entirely new definition of marriage, we are caught between Biden and Jesus and must now decide who we are more disappointed with.

Should we feel bad that Jesus said “Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh,” (Mt 19: 4, 5) that he may have forgotten to tell us that if Albert and Andrew should want to leave home and tie the knot that they too would become one flesh?

Or should we feel bad that Joe Biden has singlehandedly devised a way to infringe on the first amendment separation of powers, thousands of years of tradition, hundreds of scriptural teachings and references and the will of the people in 32 states to make a pop culture pleasing, pompous and completely perverse statement – with supplemental definitions attached?

Obama, it is said, is presently holding off on making any statements about the ‘wedge’ or ‘hot button’ issue, but it has been reported that his view of same sex marriage is “evolving.” We needn’t try to guess that in an election year his aspirations for power are surely tempering his pronouncement on the issue.

What of these leaders that are not content to lead the country into prosperity, safety and exceptionalism, but are found tinkering with the social fiber, the moral underpinnings and the very religious and scriptural teachings of the Living God. Why is this happening now?

The great “apostasy” (falling away) predicted by the Bible for the last days is not just about the churches or the believers. It has to do with every major aspect of life on the planet earth. Government, social order (or the lack of it) traditional matters of culture, education and general society will all be profoundly altered as we enter into the period the scriptures call the “Last Days”

The church is busy debating whether to open up to the gay agenda, fighting over when the rapture will take place and preaching the watered down gospel of prosperity and happiness for all, while the antichrist spirit, as predicted, is raging throughout the nations of the earth.

The foundations are shaken; the disobedience soon turns to rebellion and active anti-Christian behavior.

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In 1970 even the churches were not regularly taught the doctrine of the second coming of Christ more commonly known as premillennial prophecy. Then along came Hal Lindsey’s block buster best seller, “The Late Great Planet Earth.”

The nation and the world were catapulted into a revival of knowledge that even the Prophet Daniel proclaimed would not be well known or revealed until the last days. A few great works have been added to Lindsey’s book and those who had only Clarence Larkin’s 1918 version of “Dispensational Truth” were reinvigorated to begin again to start studying the subject of eschatology. (The last things)

Certain signs have been fulfilled in this generation that make it impossible to miss that the generation Jesus spoke of as the one sure to precede the second coming of Christ, is as the Bible says, “at hand.”

Of all the latest signs and the greatest teachings and discoveries about Christ’s imminent return in power that have graced this generation, none is more specific to America than the parallel Israel and America share in the passages of Isaiah 9: 10 and following.

Since online journalism often falls prey to the speed of surfing and the new lightning speed of digital browsers, I will state the early and emphatically; the Isaiah 9:10 prophecy/parallel is, without doubt, the most important and impressive discovery in this decade. It is a wakeup call that we can only ignore at our own peril.

It was apparent from the beginning that reviewing this documentary would not be easy and the standard review techniques would need to be suspended in lieu of some other means of elucidation. Joseph Farah is an articulate man who in this interview manages to touch on many of the questions anyone may think to ask, but to begin with we will use the four P’s to introduce the production.

PRIMARY – In both Old and New Testament days the Lord made it clear to his apostles and prophets and servant’s that if they went unheard and subsequently unheeded that it was God that was being rejected not the servant. Under inspiration of God’s Holy Spirit, God, his message and the messenger stand as one. That being said the primary here is Rabbi Jonathan Cahn.  Jonathan is what is known as a, Messianic Rabbi, (Christian) whose message is heard daily on hundreds of radio stations across the nation.

President of the ‘Hope of the World Ministries’ Cahn is also the Senior Pastor of the ‘Jerusalem Center/ Beth Israel located in Wayne, New Jersey. Cahn has ministered to thousands across the globe. He is the author of the bestselling book ‘The Harbinger’ which is subtitled “The Ancient Mystery that Holds the Secret of America’s Future”

In a normal review we would hail the long list of accomplishments and roles the principle has played to accent his career. In God’s economy he was only looking for someone to be obedient to what they saw or heard and in that vein Jonathan Cahn is best described.

What was spoken of about Cahn’s ancient Father Abraham may also be said about him. Little more needs to be said for those whose pleasure it is to serve the living God.

It may be that the crowds of youth Obama is appealing to by appearing on Jimmy Fallon’s show and interviews in Rolling Stone Magazine are all he has got. Taxpayers, people at the gas pumps, veterans, Solyndra workers, Arizona ranchers and Governors and those who don’t want to be forced to buy insurance and almost anyone over thirty five know they need the change Obama promised in 2008 now, more than ever. They see that change as, electing a new president in 2012.

The crowd of high school seniors and college freshmen and sophomores’ who are still struggling with grammar school reading problems and who turn out online 50,000,000 strong to vote on American Idol may cheer him on, but this is the crowd that doesn’t want a clue. Obama is depending on that, as misinformation, truth twisting and huge lies of omission lacing the rhetoric of Obama’s 2012 lame campaign are all that his humor offers.

It is doubtful that many youth even bother to watch liberal TV showmen like Chris Matthews, (Much less O’Reilly) who with all the grace of a pregnant duck attempted to smear Romney for his view about evolution in an interview with former RNC Chairman Michael Steele. Later O’Reilly countered with an explanation of how Romney actually believes in intelligent design as God’s means of creating man and our sundry scaled, furred and feathered friends.

Not much intelligence coming from either commentator because the one who came from the creator and was present during the creation (Jesus Christ) indicated that Adam and Eve were in fact historical people not stages in evolutionary development. The Big Bang, my papa was a chimp crowd, has decided that ‘theistic evolution’ is the best way to help God through an embarrassing spot and not give offense to the politically correct scientific community all at the same time.

A generational long effort to remove all allusion to intelligent design in our academics does not seem to be working, even as more evidence for special creation is discovered daily. But why let a good crisis (the crushing of intellectual honesty, curiosity and truth) go to waste? Chris Matthews who likens anyone who dares to believe in intelligent design as a ‘flat earther.’ prefers to live a little bit further ahead in time from the flat earth days, he is stuck in 1925 when the Scopes Monkey Trial took place. What is known about creation science and what has yet to be proven in the evolutionary model is actually what is very embarrassing. There will be no repeat of 1925.

American youth are more likely to believe what they see on a TV reality show than what they see or hear in a real non old school media report of what Obama has failed to accomplish in nearly four years of trying. (When he was not on the green) Perhaps a reality show should be created to get the message across. Following the pattern of ‘he said – she said’ would be a great format to takeoff from. It might be, ‘he said – we said’

He said we needed to buy insurance.

We said we don’t want government to make us buy anything.

He said he would be transparent.

In America We Elect presidents, we don’t worship them. But the Weekly Standard blog offered a headline on April 17, 2012 that could be filed under ‘seeing it is still too hard to believe.’

In a short piece by Daniel Halper the headline was “Michelle Obama: ‘This President Has Brought Us Out of the Dark and Into the Light’ If it were not a direct quote taken from Michelle Obama’s rally speech at a campaign event in Nashville, Tennessee earlier the same day, we could only imagine that some virulent anti-Obama politico went too far and just made up a false and despiteful headline to hurt the Obama campaign. But the headline is quite true.

Here is what is apparent. The Weekly Standard is no religious website and Daniel Harper is no dialectical theological giant like Karl Barth or a great expositor of the scriptures like Charles Haddon Spurgeon, but it is also apparent that he wasn’t trying to be.

No one needs to be a theological giant to see that Michelle has overstepped the bounds of both common political discourse and sound theology. Jesus Christ alone is the light of the world (Mt 4: 16) and the power to dispel darkness is his alone to wield.

The theology of the Bible makes two things very clear. One is that angels are superior in every way to man, the other is that no angel in Old or New Testament ever allowed themselves to be worshipped. Most of them claimed to be messengers or servants of the Lord and abruptly halted any attempt to worship them. No Christian who has seen these examples would suspend the lessons taught by these examples and then worship a man, even if he is a sitting U.S. President.

In the one instance where a crowd was allowed to worship an orator after he delivered a speech, that orator (Herod) was stricken by an angel of the Lord and fell down dead. (Acts 12: 19 – 24) This event was also attested to by Josephus, the most widely known historian of the New Testament period.

Being on the subject of theology is why we must also compare the Obama policy, position and product on such matters as the gay agenda, abortion and recent offences against both Catholic and Protestant churches with the extravagant outbursts of his wife.

Abortion, the gay life and interference with the churches doctrine and polity are all one hundred percent diametrically opposed to biblical doctrine. How do we get light from this?

In fact, if anything, when Obama policy is compared to scripture the one conclusion that is impossible to miss is that he is spreading the darkness and subduing the light.

Perhaps someone should inform Michelle that in today’s climate of economic hardships and uncertainty most Americans are waiting on Obama to dispel the debt not the darkness. It is also apparent to Americans, that at the moment, he has not managed to dispel either one.

We may expect the wives of our statesmen and politicians to be supportive and exuberant about the work of their husbands, but we still take exception with any attempt to raise them to the level of Deity.

First published in American Thinker April 19, 2012

Those who can hardly stand the syntax and rhythmic schemes of the English usage in our Constitution will not find any magnificence or beauty in the Elizabethan phrases of the Bible’s King James Version. Not to worry – other versions are readily available to elucidate and amplify; there is hope for those whose cognizance has been slighted.

King James says “O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn my glory into shame? How long will ye love vanity, and seek after leasing?” (Ps 4: 2) The hurried generation doesn’t employ, nor is familiar with terms like ‘leasing.’ Visions of new car leases or Fifth Avenue apartments that rent for five million dollars or more, per year, are not the subject spoken to in the King’s most regal version of writ.

Let’s use a simpler version, broken down for the hurried minds and the erudite of the day. Here is a chance for those fully endowed with acquired knowledge, but who remain unable to engage the ancient, revered yet fully preserved mechanism by which to use knowledge correctly; commonly referred to as wisdom.

The easier version, quoted from the Message Bible removes the clouds thus rendering it accessible even to the minds of children. “You rabble—how long do I put up with your scorn? How long will you lust after lies? How long will you live crazed by illusion?” (Opere citato)

The ‘everything came from nothing’ crowd, (Big bang,) insists that God could not have actually spoken these words. That’s OK, because the same crowd is still wrestling with the question of whether the tree falling in the forest makes any noise in the absence of anyone being present to hear it. Passing by their own fully accepted, empirically derived, definition of sound, we should not be surprised that they haven’t arrived at a fully supportable definition for the beginning of the universe.

To review: whether a falling tree in the forest makes a big bang cannot be answered – but a big bang in outer space can make a universe. No witnesses for either event but an entire society that believes one big bang equals one big universe. This raises the specter of two more great questions. First, if a mind asks a question when no one is there to witness it, does it create a great intellect? Second, do you actually want to leave the explanation of the universe in the hands of people who think like this?

As they wrestle with the question of trees in the forest, we at least already know, that not one human being was present to hear the big bang, subsequently, explanations for the origin of the universe are still, knocking, flailing and floundering at wisdoms door.

If wisdom arose, he would no doubt rebuke those who pounded on his door. He would ask the question of why he should have to speak to them a second and third time on the subject he has addressed so often and so concisely. Why should he have to repeat it again to the dull of hearing when there are those who haven’t heard it for the first time? Have you heard it yet?

“Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath showed it unto them.

Fitful paroxysms followed Jay Leno’s announcement that Rick Santorum dropped out of the GOP primary race on Tuesday April 10, 2012. The crowd was so excited that Leno actually had to calm them a bit before he could go on with his monologue.

The jokes that followed offered further humiliation for Santorum, but Romney wasn’t excluded from the mockery. Leno said that Santorum proved he hated women by his position on contraceptives which got laughs, but even more laughter rang out when Leno added that Santorum proved he hated men, when he came against porn.

Next, Leno named certain Hollywood liberals who were now turning against Barack Obama, but the big wave of laughter came on the punch line that declared, yet, one more liberal that has decided to come against Obama – Mitt Romney.

The battle for the hearts of Americans and one of its finest champions in decades, Rick Santorum, obviously did not end with laughter. Those familiar words of Christ saying “we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.” (Lk 7: 32) were not in vogue with the perpetual party set of the late night shows or pretty much anywhere in America. But why?

The battle of big bucks has taken precedence over the battle for hearts and minds. If as we were taught in early childhood, the blue of the flag stands for courage and loyalty, the red stands for the blood shed to keep us free and the white stands for the purity that exemplifies our purpose and our citizenry. This may be the day to finally change the colors. The white could become black for the darkest penchant for filth, porn and self-indulgence that history might imagine for any nation.  Perhaps it would be more appropriate to change the white to green, but not for environmentalists, but bucks.

Barack Obama has loaded trillions in debt on the backs of Americans; he follows with a promise to raise a billion to get re-elected. Santorum rode in borrowed pickup trucks to campaign while promising to bring the dignity of decency back to the nation. That was followed by millions of dollars spent to smother his message by the Romney campaign. What follows this battle of the big bucks is a promise of more bucks, recovery and riches for a nation that is all but laughing Santorum out of town.

Should you have come to this article as one of my millions of my returning readers, or if you have arrived here quite by circumstance, should you be waiting for a deep, detailed prognostication of the outcome of these recent events, here it is. America is headed for the worst time of ‘poverty and scarcity’ it has ever known. The battle of bucks will not end with more for everyone, but the greatest gain our future holds is in the numbers of broken hearts.

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I was given this message during the Reagan boom times and it is now being fully asserted during the time when a single candidate is promising those times will be fully restored and surpassed. My message is simple and requires only two words, not so.

It has always caused me to cringe when commentators, politicians or leaders glibly use the term “super power” to describe America in their conversation.

On Monday night April 9, 2012 Brit Hume stated during an interview on Fox News that being critical of someone’s religion only helps the person being criticized and does not speak well for the one who is being critical.

It was clear that Hume was again attempting to smooth over another area of contention among the writers, journalists and pundits that have of late noted that Mitt Romney is a Mormon and that is a religion that since its inception is held to be a ‘pseudo Christian religion, not part of mainstream Christianity.

Brit has always been a ‘healer of the breach’ in the business of TV journalism and while he is at least consistent, the attempt to label all criticism of someone’s religion as ‘bigotry’ falls far short of the truth and if not more thoroughly discerned could also become very damaging to those less versed in theological intricacies.

If a political or personally vindictive motive is attached to a criticism then it may be found to be bigoted. If criticism is driven by a search for truth and a purely didactic pursuit of sound theological evidence, it must never be dismissed as bigotry.

As an exemplar we need only to apply this to the various views we all hold about politics. Any kind of refutation of liberalism and the dangers it poses to the country could be called bigotry. Every conservative could be labeled a bigot and all discourse and argument would cease overnight. This is a case of a definition of higher criticism that is too broad and itself becomes bigotry. Telling theological truths is no different than demanding truth in political discourse, anything less is hypocritical at best.

Let’s start with a disclaimer of sorts about Mitt’s Mormonism. If his connection to the church is as an adherent, attendee or congregant, even his generosity toward the Mormon Church and some work done for the Mormons in his past, he hardly qualifies as a fire and brimstone preacher for the Mormons. His views and practices stay hidden in the background and don’t seem to bleed into his political message. Perhaps those who think his Mormon views will little affect his policies are right, but even that doesn’t make erroneous doctrine and theology right.

Hundreds of questions about the origins of Mormonism bother many people and some of the doctrines that twist the Divinity of Christ and could promote the view that abortion is OK because a person is not endowed with a God given spirit until birth. This is not scriptural and defies the clearest teachings of the Bible. This worries pro-lifers and not without good reason.

Before going on it must be noted that if questioning Mormonism is bigotry then questioning biblical Christianity would be as well. With that said, it is no secret that the founder of the Mormon religion, Joseph Smith said God had told him specifically that all the Christian churches were wrong in total. Is that bigotry?

What we have here is a case for rejecting extra-biblical revelation. That is why many of today’s historic denominations will not allow the ministry of prophets and interpreters to continue in their respective churches. Now only Apostolic, Pentecostal and non-denominational churches allow for these kinds of ministries, but not without good reason.

Andy Andrews, the author of ‘How Do You Kill 11 Million People: Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think’ was a guest on the Mike Huckabee show recently. As expected Andrews was asked to explain the title of his book and to give a succinct summary of the answer to the question his title imposed.

Like many people Andrews spent years pondering the question of why and just how 11 million people would become so docile as to actually look complicit in the planning and execution of their own deaths. Why would so many line up to be hauled away by the Nazis in crowded boxcars, without putting up great resistance or a fight to save their own lives.

Andrews uses no deep philosophical construct to answer the question. He offers the simplest answer and under any level of reasonable scrutiny we suddenly know he has hit the nail squarely on the head. His answer in all of its glorious simplicity is, “They were lied to.”

They were told that they were going to work, be repatriated or sent back to their respective places of origin. They could not in their wildest imaginations believe that they were being herded to their own deaths.

If applied to the direction of America today and the upcoming presidential races; is it possible, reasonable or within the very scope of our wildest imagination to apply Andrew’s answer to the socio-political climate of our nation today? The answer to this question is also blaringly simple. The hands down, straight up answer is; an unequivocal – yes!

Many Americans who were born during or just after WWII have known for a lifetime that the Jews were lied to about their true destination. This generation is full of opinion and debate and history courses in today’s academia will hardly raise the question; much less come to the right answers. This takes nothing from Andrews’s conclusions but it is only half the story.

How the Jews were deceived only explains the mechanism by which they were rounded up by the millions, it does not explain why. Understanding the nature of how God deals with nations and his own peculiar people (Israel) offers the only legitimate explanation that satisfies both sound theology and any accurate historical context.

The entire calling of Israel, followed by the giving of the Mosaic Law and the temple system of worship, was predicated on the fact that God wanted Israel to show the Savior of mankind to the world. Their rejection of Jesus Christ was caused by their failure to see that prophecy did not promise them a political Messiah but a Redeemer. He will fulfill the role of the political or ruling Messiah only at his second coming.

The Jews could not reconcile this dualism, so some rabbinical schools actually concluded that there must be two Messiahs. Not only could they not see that Christ had to deal with sin and salvation first, but even if they could see that, they were not willing to wait for the vast church age between the first and second coming of Christ. They wanted political salvation now.