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- Transhumanists Celebrate Dangerous Copenhagen Declaration On
Religion [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/f11ce51a79e9cf48
- UGA Scientists Very Concerned Over Methane In Gulf [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/72ac6c12a03c479a
- Way Being Made For Peter The Roman? [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/212d1282e0624f14
- Key News Events [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/f1acbaf3d321d68b
- HIT SONG FOR PALESTINIAN CHILDREN [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/b61cc477b2c1c91d
- THE SAME DESTINATION [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/20d4da576af46d1c
- The New Inquisition [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/cd64654535588bf3
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Topic: Transhumanists Celebrate Dangerous Copenhagen Declaration On Religion
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 01 07:16PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/a6bf7efb462659ff
*Transhumanists Celebrate Dangerous Copenhagen Declaration On
Religion*<http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/blackford20100630/>
The recent Gods and Politics conference in Copenhagen adopted a "Declaration
on Religion in Public Life." The conference was the first European event of
Atheist Alliance International, and was co-hosted by AAI and the Danish
Atheist Society. * We assert the principle of one law for all, with no
special treatment for minority communities, and no jurisdiction for
religious courts for the settlement of civil matters or family disputes. *
We reject all discrimination in employment (other than for religious
leaders) and the provision of social services on the grounds of race,
religion or belief, gender, class, caste or sexual orientation. * We reject
any special consideration for religion in politics and public life, and
oppose charitable, tax-free status and state grants for the promotion of any
religion as inimical to the interests of non-believers and those of other
faiths. We oppose state funding for faith schools. * We support the right to
secular education, and assert the need for education in critical thinking
and the distinction between faith and reason as a guide to knowledge, and in
the diversity of religious beliefs. We support the spirit of free inquiry
and the teaching of science free from religious interference, and are
opposed to indoctrination, religious or otherwise...
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Topic: UGA Scientists Very Concerned Over Methane In Gulf
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 01 07:15PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/a283df3b0a3d2c45
*UGA Scientists Very Concerned Over Methane In
Gulf*<http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wabe/news.newsmain/article/1/0/1669178/Atlanta/UGA.scientists.continue.to.probe.methane.in.Gulf>
UGA scientists continue to study the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Many
of the other scientists working on the spill are focused on the surface of
the water, and on the oil. The UGA team is tackling a different issue -- one
that could impact not just sea life but the atmosphere as well. The UGA
scientists are looking at conditions below the surface of the water. And the
target of their concern is gas, not oil. "There's an under-appreciation
about the amount of gas coming out of the well." That's Dr. Samantha Joye,
speaking on a conference call with journalists Tuesday. She said methane
makes up about 40 percent of the oily mixture that is pouring out of the
Deep Water Horizon well. Also known as natural gas, methane is invisible.
But that doesn't mean it's harmless. "I think BP officials have said, 'Oh
the gas is going straight into the atmosphere,' as if that doesn't matter,"
Dr. Joye said. "Well it does matter since it's a potent greenhouse gas."
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Topic: Way Being Made For Peter The Roman?
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 01 07:13PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/5ee6d2b1083d4934
*Way Being Made For Peter The
Roman?*<http://www.spiritdaily.com/timestemplate.htm>
A few days ago on June 29 in Rome, on the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Pope
Benedict XVI gave a remarkable homily in which he mentions the threats that
will come against the Church in the "last days." This homily must be read in
part as Benedict's commentary on the sexual abuse crisis and the increasing
pressure being placed on the Church by secular judicial and law enforcement
authorities. The homily thus provides a deep insight into Benedict's mind at
this troubled moment in his pontificate. The feast in Rome on June 29 each
year is the feast in which the Pope places the "*pallium*," a cloth made of
wool, upon the shoulders of archbishops from around the world chosen during
the past year as a sign that they are "linked" or "yoked" to the universal
Church, to Rome, and to the person of the Pope. In his homily, the Pope
speaks of the "liberty of the Church" and says this liberty is protected by
the strength of the union between the bishops around the world and the
bishop of Rome, the Pope... Now, Benedict is scheduled to travel this
Sunday, on July 4, to Sulmona, not far from Rome. There, in the crypt of the
cathedral, as the last act of his visit, he is scheduled to venerate relics
of this same holy Pope, Celestine V. So Sunday, the Pope will pray before
Celestine's relics for the second time in 15 months. I am not suggesting
Pope Benedict XVI is thinking of following in the footsteps of the saintly
Pope Celestine and resigning. I am suggesting that the studious Pope
Benedict and the studious monk-Pope are "connected" in a mysterious way. I
believe Benedict's decisions to leave his *pallium* in Aquila, where
Celestine's tomb is located, and to schedule a prayer before his relics this
coming Sunday, are not haphazard. These decisions are indicators, ways of
communicating truths through gestures. They contain a message the Pope
cannot deliver any other way.
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Topic: Key News Events
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 01 07:00PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/f064318c7d786d13
*Key News Events*
* <http://www.cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=1652>DVD*
*I. Hurricane Alex is now over landfall in Mexico and has degenerated into a
Tropical Storm.*
*However, she whipped up high enough winds in the oil spill area that oil
cleanup efforts were halted, thus allowing the spill to continue at full
force.*
NEWS BRIEF: "*Storm hinders Gulf of Mexico oil spill
cleanup<http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN3018386220100701>
*", By Kristen Hays and Tom Doggett, Reuters News, June 30, 2010
"HOUSTON/WASHINGTON, June 30 (Reuters) - Waves and wind spawned by Hurricane
Alex disrupted cleanup of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on Wednesday while a
senior U.S. official said a relief well intended to plug BP Plc's (BP.L)
(BP.N) gushing deep-sea well remained weeks from completion ... The relief
well, one of two being drilled, will still take several weeks to reach the
spewing oil pipe, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told U.S. lawmakers. The
relief wells are intended to intersect and then plug the ruptured deep-sea
well."
Looking carefully at the oil spill depiction on the Illuminati Card
Game<http://www.cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=1133>card, shown left,
we concluded originally that the spill had to be allowed
to continue for as long as it took to put enough crude in the ocean that it
eventually would penetrate multiple oceans throughout the world. This card
shows exactly that scenario. Therefore, neither BP nor the Obama
Administration could allow the spill to be immediately contained; they had
to keep the ruptured well gushing for a while.
This scenario is unfolding in just this manner.
A couple of weeks ago, we showed a supercomputer simulation as to how this
oil spill was going to spread. We reprint it here below, along with a
depiction of the ocean currents.
Since the oil spill projected by this supercomputer simulation shows that
the crude oil is going to travel up the East Coast and spread out into the
middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, this crude will then be taken southward
to the South Atlantic Ocean and then around the tip of Africa into the
Indian Ocean!
The process is now in place to accomplish this plan; all that is needed is
to keep the ruptured oil well gushing long enough to put enough crude into
the waters that this spill will spread into these multiple oceans! Just as
this Illuminati Card Game card depicts -- oil spill into multiple oceans.
This next article boldly agrees that President Obama does not really want to
quickly contain this spill! In fact, the President is said to want the
crisis to get worse before it gets better.
NEWS BRIEF: "*Obama Wants The Oil Spill Crisis To Get Worse
<http://www.infowars.com/obama-wants-the-oil-spill-crisis-to-get-worse/>", *by
Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars, July 1, 2010
"Why has President Obama waited over two months into the BP oil spill crisis
before accepting offers of international assistance that were there from the
very start, seemingly waiting for hurricanes to hit the region which will
only make the crisis worse? Obama's acceptance of international help is too
little, too late – over two months late to be exact."
"Foreign ships have been prevented from helping in the clean up process.
Every effort has been made to stop outside involvement in the situation and
almost everything we learn about the crisis comes directly from BP or the
federal government. This strictly enforced cover-up shows that authorities
are more concerned about protecting their information lock down than
actually cleaning up the spill. Obama initially blocked international help,
citing the Jones Act, which forbids foreign ships from operating between
U.S. ports, and thereby preventing the use of sophisticated technology which
foreign firms insist could have sealed the leak."
"Obama's two month delay in refusing international help ensured that the
window of opportunity was missed to fix the leak before the start of the
hurricane season, which will make the crisis immeasurably worse. "
What the average American citizen was not told was that the Jones Act could
be waived immediately in the case of natural disaster or crisis! Therefore,
the President could have accepted these very specialized foreign ships to
intervene right away. But, they were not allowed on the scene for 70 full
days and the crisis just got a whole lot worse.
Is there a reason, aside from the fact that a prolonged oil spill seems
needed to carry out the Illuminati Plan as depicted by the Illuminati Card
Game, that Obama is prolonging this crisis? Paul Watson thinks there is
another reason.
"Why did Obama reject all the help he could get unless the federal
government wants the crisis to get worse so it can exploit the hysteria
surrounding the issue to push its ultimate goal of imposing a consumption
tax on the American people? How will imposing a carbon tax fix the oil
spill? It won't, but by exploiting the crisis in the name of 'reducing our
dependence on oil', the government will seek to raise prices, much to the
glee of companies like BP who are founding members of the cap and trade
lobby. Reducing your dependence on oil means reducing your ability to fill
your tank because it will be so much more expensive once the carbon tax is
in place."
I concur. The Global Elite has always wanted to place such a tax upon oil
that people start driving more efficient cars and start taking public
transportation. Passing a new carbon tax using this crisis as the catalyst
seems to be very logical.
"The government has every interest in seeing the crisis worsen, not merely
to justify cap and trade but also to mothball plans for new exploratory oil
drilling in the Arctic, something to which the administration had never
wanted to fully commit. As a result of the oil spill, which every action of
the federal government has made worse, that drilling has now been postponed.
As we have documented, every action on behalf of the feds has been about
delaying and hampering the response to the oil spill. This, allied to
the abundant
evidence of deliberate negligence and even sabotage of the oil
well<http://www.prisonplanet.com/states-need-to-launch-criminal-investigation-into-bp-federal-governments-role-in-oil-spill.html>,
makes it clear to any rational observer that it's in the best interests of
both BP and the federal government to let the crisis roll on indefinitely."
Adding to the concept that this well was deliberately sabotaged is the
reality that the largest single shareholder of BP Oil is none other than one
of the most powerful of the Illuminati bankers, J.P. Morgan!
Furthermore, Climate activists have long warned that this kind of oil spill
was inevitable and could cause great damage to Mother Earth. Their warnings
are now going to be given much more credence, thus providing the Climate
Control activists powerful ammunition to get the Copenhagen accord new life.
This oil spill is just what the global doctor ordered. Al Gore must be very
pleased!
Our Headline News analysis, printed below, seems to be also very much in
play. This current crisis is going to give the "Re-wilding" plan much
greater credibility than ever before. Hurricane Alex blew winds into the
spill area, forcing oil containment efforts to cease. Oil-polluted ocean
waves will be pushed by the strong winds farther up on to the Gulf shores.
"Rough weather associated with Alex, 2010's first Atlantic hurricane,
threatened to push more oil-polluted water onto U.S. shores and delayed BP's
plans to boost oil containment capacity at its leaking well ... BP has been
siphoning some oil from the spewing well but an unknown amount continues to
spurt into the sea."
*New Headline News Article *
***"Is The BP Oil Spill Planned To Be The Greatest Single 'Rewilding' Event
Yet?*"
*If a cataclysmic event like a Category 5 hurricane or a massive tsunami
triggered by a huge earthquake now hits the region, a storm surge of
frightening proportions could sweep over enormous sections of the Gulf
Coast, pouring crude oil and toxic dispersants over beaches, farmlands and
cities.* *National Guard troops are already on site, ready to react to such
a catastrophe. Could the region be "Rewilded"?* *New Headline News article
-- http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n2420.cfm* On Day #70, the United States
started allowing international oil recovery vessels to enter the area. NEWS
BRIEF: *"Day 70: The Latest on the Oil Spill - International Aid
Accepted"*<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/30/us/30latest.html?_r=1&fta=y>,
The New York Times, June 29, 2010 "The State Department said the United
States was accepting help from 12 countries and international organizations
in dealing with the spill. Most of have offered skimmers, boom or dispersant
chemicals. Among those whose offers have been accepted are Canada, Mexico,
Croatia, Holland, Norway and Japan, as well as the International Maritime
Organization and the Monitoring and Information Center." The Number 70 to
the occultist carries the number of "Perfection x Ten". The Number '7' means
perfection to the occultist. It can also mean "Universality". This spill
will advance the cause of the New World Order, the first truly Universal
government, economy and religion. We have stated time and time again that
these occultic Illuminati planners believe that events must occur according
to their occult numbers, believing that a good plan might fail unless it is
carried out according to certain occult numbers. (Read full details in: *
NEWS1756* <http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1756.cfm> - Shows how the 9/11
attacks were carried out by key sacred occult numbers! *NEWS1789
<http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1789.cfm>*- President Bush attacked Iraq
according to key sacred occult numbers! ) Therefore, it is significant that,
on Day 70, the Obama Administration reversed the original stance and began
accepting the international oil recovery ships which are far more
technically capable than the American ones. Watch events carefully as they
unfold, for they will occur on days carrying signicant value according to
the key sacred numbers. Further, the day on which this reversal was
announced was the 29th of the month. When added, '2+9' equals '11', a key
sacred number for the coming Masonic Christ (Antichrist). Remember that the
original explosion occurred on April 20, following a botched effort on April
19 to fix a problem on the well cover. April 19 is the first day of the
annual Satanic celebration known as "The Blood Sacrifice of the Beast". This
occult celebration lasts for exactly 13 days, another key sacred number.
You will understand what is occurring and why only when you start looking at
events through the eyes of the occultists bringing events to pass. The final
leaders of this age are truly obsessed with their plan to produce Antichrist
on the world scene, just as prophecy foretold! Please read carefully:
"For God has put it into their hearts to carry out His own purpose by acting
in harmony in surrendering their royal power and authority to the beast,
until the prophetic words (intentions and promises) of God shall be
fulfilled." (Revelation 17:17; *Parallel Bible, KJV/Amplified Bible
Commentary* <http://cuttingedge.org/results.cfm?keywords=amplified>)
God is fulfilling this prophecy in our Daily News!
<http://www.cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=1363>*DVD*
*II. In a bold effort to stave off a complete diplomatic rift between Israel
and Turkey, envoys of these nations met secretly in Europe!*
*If Israel cannot keep Turkey from turning Eastward to Iran and Russia, then
Turkey -- the last nation foretold to be marching against Israel in the
"Magog Invasion" of Ezekiel 38-39 -- will have fallen into its proper
prophetic place.*
NEWS BRIEF: "*Israel, Turkey hold secret meeting in
Europe<http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/01/israel.turkey.meeting/>",
*CNN World News, July 1, 2010
"Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israel's foreign minister has lashed out at the
country's prime minister for failing to inform him of the first ministerial
talks between Israel and Turkey since the Gaza flotilla incident in
May. Avigdor
Lieberman accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of delivering a 'hard
blow' to the trust between the two offices by not telling him the meeting
was due to take place."
"Israeli Industry and Trade Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer and Turkish
Foreign Minister Ahmed Davutoglu met Wednesday in Brussels, Belgium,
according to officials in Turkey ... Israel and Turkey have had a troubled
relationship ever since the Israeli offensive on Gaza that began at the end
of 2008. Relations deteriorated further after the incident May 31 in which
Israeli naval commandos raided a Turkish vessel that was part of a six-boat
flotilla carrying humanitarian supplies to Gaza. The flotilla was attempting
to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Nine Turkish activists were killed
and dozens wounded. A number of Israeli soldiers were injured as well."
"Turkey recalled its ambassador to Israel after the incident and denied
Israeli military planes access to its airspace."
Israel has every reason to want to prevent Turkey from completely cutting
off diplomatic relations and turning to Russia and Iran. Turkey is armed
with a good many advanced Israeli arms, plus Turkish soldiers and airmen
have proven in the recent past to be great fighters. Israel does not want to
face this kind of enemy in battle.
Turkey's civilian Muslim Prime Minister does not want to unnecessarily
antagonize his pro-West generals, so a meeting like this could be an effort
for the Turkish Prime Minister to demonstrate that he wants peace and
reconciliation with Israel. When the talks fail, Turkey's Prime Minister can
say to the generals that he had tried to achieve peace but that Israel is
the culprit.
We expect Turkey to now move rather rapidly into her prophesied place as one
of the countries marching against Israel in The Magog Invasion.
<http://www.cuttingedge.org/detail.cfm?ID=2201>*III. A Federal Judge has
granted the "Son of Hamas", who became a Born Again Christian first and a
Mossad spy second, the permission to stay in this country.*
*Justice -- particularly involving a Born Again Christian -- is a rarity
these days, so it is a pleasant surprise to see it accomplished in this
instance.*
NEWS BRIEF: "*Judge grants ex-Israeli spy US
asylum<http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=180032>:
Son of a Hamas founder passes US immigration background check", *The
Jerusalem Post, July 1, 2010
"Mosab Yousef, 32, had been threatened with deportation for engaging in
terrorist activities, as detailed in his recent autobiography, though it was
done in the service of Israel during his nine years as an undercover agent.
Wednesday's hearing lasted 15 minutes, with the judge ruling that Yousef can
stay in the United States – where he has lived since 2007 – after he passes
a routine background check."
Even Homeland Security relented from their plans to deport Yousef to certain
death. Surprisingly!
"US Department of Homeland Security attorney Kerri Calcador said she was
dropping objections to asylum, with no further explanation given of the
rationale behind the decision."
Yousef must be depending upon the power of the Holy Spirit to protect him as
he lives in the United States. Palestinian activists would like nothing more
than to brutally murder this young man for his conversion to Christianity
and for his spying for Mossad.
Yousef's story is touching and indicative of the powerful life one can live
for Jesus in the midst of great danger and hostility.
It's almost too amazing to be true: A stranger hands a New Testament to a
longtime Hamas leader and heir-apparent to the
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Topic: HIT SONG FOR PALESTINIAN CHILDREN
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Date: Jul 01 06:59PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/e8fa48fcf7cd6ed3
HIT SONG FOR PALESTINIAN CHILDREN
New hit song for Palestinian children: "When we die as martyrs" [Excerpts]
Birds of Paradise [a Jordanian-owned production company and television
channel], produces a song in which children welcome death to regain
Palestine.
Haaretz [News] Service (June 22, 2010)
An Arabic children's choir has been racking up views all over the world with
the new YouTube hit "when we die as martyrs, we will go to heaven."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=illF1vt5g1Q
According to The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT), one of the
world's most comprehensive data centers on radical Islamic terrorist groups,
the song is a hit on Arabic and worldwide websites and the children's choir
performing it is fast becoming one of the most popular children's groups in
the Arab world.
In the video clip, which can be viewed on the popular video sharing site
YouTube, a young brown-eyed girl sings in front of what seems to be a group
of children in pre-school the lyrics "Without Palestine, what does childhood
mean?"
Journalist Fawzia Nasir al-Naeem wrote in the Saudi Arabian newspaper
Al-Jazirah that "[Birds of Paradise] is one of the most widely distributed
children's song groups in the Arab world, and it seems to have crossed the
ocean to Canada and Britain."
She added that the group represents a new wave in Jihadist youth
indoctrination, as it is child-friendly, as opposed to previous Jihadist
programs.
[TBC: "Child-friendly" still involves the death of the child.]
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Topic: THE SAME DESTINATION
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Date: Jul 01 06:58PM -0400
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THE SAME DESTINATION
[TBC: Whether it is the emergent church, Catholic mysticism, positive
confession, the new apostolic movement, or new age religion, all derive
inspiration from each other and defend each other against any who discern
unbiblical practices. In 2007, Patricia King, a self-titled prophetess who
teaches and promotes esoteric, extrabiblical mysticism was taken to task for
her "Cloud of Witnesses prophecy."]
She predicted: "Appearances of Christ like the disciples experienced...to
believers and non-believers. Angelic visitations, appearances, and
encounters...Third Heaven Visitations...Ascending and descending (earth to
heaven and heaven to earth)...Appearances of the Great Cloud of
Witnesses...Walking on Water like Jesus and Peter. Transport in the Spirit
through both visionary encounters and physical to physical, like Ezekiel,
Elijah, John, and Phillip. Walking into rooms where the doors are locked,
like Jesus. Raising the dead, like Jesus did at funerals, at sickbeds, and
even in graveyards...an acceleration of resurrections... manifestations of
gold, silver, diamond glitter, gem stones, oil, feathers, lights,
lightning's, thundering, manna, fire"("Patricia King's Positional Statement
on "The Spiritual Revolution" from her website).
When biblical objections were raised, she was defended by a pastor who
identifies himself as ..."a Board Certified Psychologist, an Anglican
priest, a former Baptist minister, a retired university professor and a
lifetime friend of the Rev. Charles Osborne. (Osbourne describes himself as
a "a seer prophet and Anglican priest"). The defense was long on
generalities and devoid of pertinent biblical commentary. No effort was made
to "prove all things, hold fast that which is good" (1 Thessalonians 5:21).
Following is the sum of the defense:
"[P]sychotherapy tenderized me to psychological suffering. So I probably
experienced more pain for you than you feel yourself. Anyway, I did go into
intercessory prayer.
"I know you realize that what is happening to you in these attacks goes with
the territory. My son is a successful Rhema pastor, and no one suffered more
attacks than his teacher, Kenneth Hagin. As you know, Hagin was called
everything from new agey to heretic. Right now, I attend a Morningstar
fellowship, and when I first heard of Rick Joyner and Googled him, I knew he
had to be on to something, as all I saw was him being accused of everything
short of murder."
http://donclarks.blogspot.com/2007/08/patricia-king-under-attack.html
[TBC: Many of these folks speak of being inspired by the teachings of the
late Kenneth Hagin, who demonstrably plagiarized metaphysical teacher E.W.
Kenyon (D.R. McConnell, "A Different Gospel," pp. 6-11). Kenyon himself was
influenced by metaphysical cults like Christian Science, New Thought, and
The Unity School of Christianity (D.R. McConnell, "A Different Gospel," pp.
31-35). It was Hagin who wrote, "God made man His understudy. He made him
king, to rule over everything that had life. Man was master. Man lived in
the realm of God. He lived on terms of equality with God" (Hagin, Zoe, pp.
35-36).]
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Topic: The New Inquisition
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 01 06:58PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/866e04b14508bc70
The New Inquisition
Dave Hunt
[Portions were taken from the April 1999 TBC article, "Islam and the
Gospel."]
It was the year 1569, at the height of Catholicism's Spanish Inquisition in
Holland. Dirk Willems, a humble and pious follower of Jesus Christ, lay in
prison awaiting a fiery death at the stake. His crime? Having been
rebaptized upon confession of faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ on
the Cross. The official town records stated that the prisoner,
"...persisting obstinately in his opinion...shall be executed by fire, until
death...."
One day, Dirk, finding his cell momentarily unguarded, took the opportunity
to escape. Across the nearby frozen lake he fled. The alarm was quickly
raised, however, and a "thief catcher" was summoned to pursue the fleeing
man. Hearing the crack of ice behind him, Dirk turned to see his pursuer
break through into the frigid water. Pausing only a moment, he returned to
rescue his enemy from certain death. In deepest gratitude, his pursuer
pleaded that Dirk might be allowed to go free. His plea was denied. Dirk's
date with death was upheld. Official records, preserved to our day, tell us
that "...a strong east wind blowing that day, the fire was driven away from
the upper part of his body...in consequence of which this good man suffered
a lingering death."
Do we see some reflection in this account of Christ's own suffering for us
sinners? The Scripture declares that "God is love." Love is His very nature.
God's handiwork in creating the perfect environment for man showed in
exquisite detail His forethought on behalf of the coming recipients of His
love, culminating in His plan for man's redemption after the Fall. The
sacrificial lamb prefigured the ultimate sacrifice of God's only begotten
Son, when, in the dark hours of Calvary, He poured out His wrath against the
dearest object of His love. From the Cross came Jesus' cry, "My God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me?" Jesus knew the answer to that question, though
its reality was so agonizing. God's Son became sin itself and thus must
suffer His Father's rejection (2 Cor 5:21).
Do we dare compare Dirk Willems's act of "redemption" with that of our
Savior? Should we, as Christians, take that step beyond happily rejoicing in
our salvation to that of also taking the role of sacrificial lamb, as Dirk
Willems did, when the opportunity arises?
Let's enter another arena, far removed from the times of the Spanish
Inquisition of the sixteenth century. We have another "inquisition" arising
farther east and reaching alarming proportions in our day.
In Saudi Arabia, for example, there is a total blackout on anything
Christian: one cannot carry a Bible on the street or have a Bible study in
the privacy of one's own home. Even in our embassy, over which the American
flag flies, Christian church services are banned. It is officially the death
penalty in Saudi Arabia and some other Muslim countries (and enforced
unofficially elsewhere) for a Muslim to convert to any other religion.
Only Muslims can be citizens of Saudi Arabia. Even in Arab countries where
shari'a(Islamic law) is not enforced by the government, Islam's influence
prevents freedom of speech, of the press, of religion, and of conscience. In
PLO territories, Christian Arabs, who once had freedom under Israel, now
suffer persecution, imprisonment, and death for their faith. Yet neither the
UN nor our own government protests such oppression behind the Islamic
curtain. Muslims build mosques and worship freely in the West, but in their
own countries they deny such freedoms to others. Instead of reporting this
hypocrisy, the world media covers it up.
Islam spread rapidly under Muhammad and his successors through jihad ("holy
war"). Muhammad himself planned 65 campaigns and personally led 27 involving
naked aggression and treachery. This incredible "evangelism" made "converts"
by the millions at the point of a sword. At its peak, Islam had conquered
all of North Africa and almost took over Europe.
Islam continues its conquest worldwide. Today's invaders are millions of
immigrants who make converts to Islam through misrepresentation. One sees on
TV well-coifed and fashionably dressed women who claim to be converts to
Islam and testify to its joys and peace-loving ways. Yet in Saudi Arabia,
they would have to be veiled with only their eyes showing, would have to
wear plain, dark full-length robes, could not drive a car, could be one of
four wives habitually mistreated by their husband, could be divorced by mere
denunciation, and would be virtual slaves under shari'a.
Islam's earnest goal, set forth in the Qur'an (references given herein are
from three versions) and Hadith (Islamic written tradition), remains the
same: to bring all mankind into submission (that's what "Islam" means) and
to kill or enslave all "infidels" (i.e., unbelievers in Allah and Muhammad
his prophet--Surah 2:190-92; 4:76; 5:33; 9:5,29,41;47:4, etc.). Islam (in
obedience to the Qur'an and Muhammad's example) is the driving force behind
most terrorism today. According to the Hadith, Muhammad declared, "The last
hour will not come before the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill
them."
Many Westerners naïvely accept Allah, who inspired Muhammad, as the God of
the Bible. Yet Allah has no son and rejects the Trinity (4:171), is
unknowable, and was the pagan idol/god of Muhammad's tribe before he was
born. Allah tells Muslims, "Take not the Jews and Christians for
friends...slay the idolaters [infidels] wherever ye find them....Fight
against those who...believe not in Allah nor the Last Day" (5:51;
9:5,29,41). But the triune God of the Bible wants men to know Him (Jer
9:24), a knowledge essential to salvation (Jn 17:3). Jews are His "chosen
people" (Ex 6:7; Lv 20:26; 1 Chr 16:13; Ps 105:6, etc.) and Christians are
His dearly beloved children (Rom 8:16,21; Gal 3:26; Eph 1:5; 5:1, etc.).
Instead of conversion by force, Christ said that His disciples did not fight
because His kingdom was not of this world (Jn 8:36). Indeed, He told His
disciples, "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" (Mt 5:44).
Christ gave His life to save sinners, and His followers must be willing to
lay down their lives to bring this good news to the world. Biblical
salvation is a free gift paid for by the death of Christ, who said, "Go ye
into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mk 16:15).
That command includes today's one billion Muslims. They present a tremendous
(and inescapable) challenge to every Christian. But how can we bring the
gospel to those who may be killed for believing it, or who may kill us for
offering it to them? To die fighting infidels is the only sure way for a
Muslim to gain Paradise. Yet Christ also died for Muslims, and His love
compels us to share the Good News.
Attempts to evangelize Muslims have had little success for obvious reasons.
Lately, however, a new and seemingly more fruitful approach is being
adopted: using Muslim scriptures to present Christ. The Hadith attests to
the virgin birth, sinless life, and miracles of Christ, who is called "the
Word of Allah." Some portions of the Qur'an, too, speak highly of Christ:
that He was born of the virgin Mary (Surah 3:45-47; 21:91, etc.); He is the
highest example (43:57); and He alone is called "Isa," which means Savior
(3:45). Whereas Muhammad was unable to perform miracles (17:90-96; 29:50-52,
etc.), Christ did so (2:252-53, 3:49); and unlike others such as Moses, who
did miracles at God's command, Jesus did miracles on His own initiative
(26:63 etc), even raising the dead (3:49; 5:110; 36:78-79, etc.). Further,
the Qur'an declares that Muhammad was a sinner (9:43; 40:55; 47:19; 48:2;
294:1-3, etc.), but Jesus was sinless (19:17-19). The Antichrist (Dajjal) is
a major topic of the Hadith, which warns of his coming. He is called the
"false Christ" who will deceive many near the end of time. The Hadith
teaches that Jesus will return at the end to destroy the Dajjal. Belief in
"the Last Day" is an essential part of the Muslim's faith (2:62).
In spite of the honor and reverence accorded Jesus, however, the Jesus of
Islam is not the Jesus of the Bible but "another Jesus" (2 Cor 11:4). While
the Qur'an in its early passages honors at least parts of the Bible as "the
Book" and both Jews and Christians as "the people of the Book," it often
contradicts the Bible: it denies that Jesus is God (3:59, 62; 4:171) and
that He died on the Cross (4:157-58; 5:116-20) for our sins. Early tradition
held that at Christ's request a look-alike disciple rescued Him from the
Cross by dying in His place. Other passages, however, seem to declare that
Christ did indeed die (3:33,55; 5:117; 19:33), and many Islamic scholars
take that view today. The Qur'an denies that one person could die for
another (17:13-15; 35:18). Actually, it says that no "soul laden [i.e.,
sinner] bears the load [sin] of another." Since Jesus was without sin, He
would have to be an exception.
For the sinner to be righteously forgiven, Christ had to pay the penalty
demanded by God's justice; but that concept is foreign to Islam. The Qur'an
breeds uncertainty: "Forgiveness is only incumbent on Allah toward those who
do evil in ignorance [and] then turn quickly [in repentance] to Allah....Lo!
Allah pardoneth...all save [except] that to whom he will not..." (4:17,116).
Neither "ignorance" nor "quickly" are defined nor why Allah forgives some
and not others. Nor does repentance guarantee forgiveness.
In contrast, the Bible offers forgiveness to all. Christ even died to redeem
those who hated Him and asked His Father to forgive those who crucified Him
(Lk 23:34).
In real life, Allah's forgiveness never comes in time to prevent a hand,
foot, or ear from being cut off as the penalty for stealing. Hundreds of
Iraqis, mutilated by this inhumane Islamic decree, flee to camps bordering
that country. Yet kidnapping requires no such mutilation because a person is
not considered to be property. Fornication also requires no such mutilation,
while petty thievery does.
The Qur'an's contradictions of the Bible are excused by claiming that the
Bible was corrupted. But the Qur'an was sent to stand "as a guardian" over
the Bible (5:48); therefore, if the Bible was corrupted, the Qur'an failed.
The Muslim's Holy Book itself admits that much of its text is ambiguous
(3:7); Muslims are even to ask "the People of the Book [Bible]" for
enlightenment (21:7)!
The Qur'an also contradicts itself. Allah created everything "in the
twinkling of an eye" (54:49,50), "in two Days" (41:9,12), "in four Days"
(41:10), "in six Days" (7:54;10:4,32:4), "a Day," equaling "a thousand
years" (70:4); Jesus is not the Son of God (4:171), yet He is (19:17-21),
etc.
In quoting the Qur'an and Hadith, we must avoid the impression that we are
endorsing these writings. Consider Paul's discussion with the philosophers
on Mars Hill: "...as certain also of your own poets have said" (Acts 17:28).
Paul was not suggesting that these writers were inspired of God--and he went
beyond them to to present the gospel. Likewise, we must be careful to go
beyond what the Qur'an and Hadith say about Jesus to present the true
gospel; otherwise there is no basis for salvation.
For a Muslim to become a true Christian, he must renounce Islam's false God,
Allah, and its false gospel of salvation by works. Unfortunately, the gospel
is being compromised to make it appealing to Muslims. (In the West, it's
being made appealing to nearly everyone.) Many "converts" have never
understood the gospel and thus have not believed that which is "the power of
God unto salvation to every one that believeth" (Rom 1:16). The gospel is
definitely not in the Qur'an. Yet Muslims are supposedly being saved by
heeding it. The author of Building Bridges: Christianity and Islam(NavPress,
1997) gives the testimony of a Muslim "converted" to Christianity in
Pakistan (p. 27):
As I was listening to the Qur'an read on the radio day after day, I heard
that Christ was highly honored...and near-stationed to God. I said to
myself, "If I wanted someone to intercede for me to God, who would be better
than someone like Christ...?" And so I prayed, "Lord Isa [Jesus], please
come to my help. I want to devote myself to God through you. Since you are
highly honored and sitting near Him, you can do it."
The author then comments, "After that, he felt like a changed man, much
happier than before...."
This is a delusion similar to that of those who say, "Lord, Lord, have we
not prophesied in thy name?...and in thy name done many wonderful works?" to
whom the Lord responds, "I never knew you: depart from me..." (Mt 7:21-23).
Asking Islam's Isa to intercede for oneself will not save. One must believe
the gospel to be saved: "[H]ow that Christ died for our sins according to
the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day
according to the scriptures" (1 Cor 15:1-4); "That whosoever believeth in
him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (Jn 3:16). That gospel is
not in the Qur'an, and there is nothing in this "convert's" testimony to
indicate that he knew or believed it.
The same author declares that "60 percent of Muslims who are approached with
the methods explained in this book put their trust in Christ...." Yet Christ
and His apostles experienced no such percentage of converts. Jesus said that
few would be saved (Mt 7:13-14). The author enthusiastically refers to
Muslims converted to Christ "while remaining [for years] in the fold of
their Islamic community...without becoming detestable to their own
communities" (p. 10). But Jesus warned His disciples, "And ye shall be hated
by all men for my name's sake..." (Mt 10:22; Jn 15:20). All men, except
Muslims?
We want to be wise and not needlessly offend in our presentation of the
gospel
(1 Cor 10:32), whether to Muslims or anyone else to whom the Lord gives us
the grace to present the "unsearchable riches of Christ" (Eph 3:8). But
there is an unavoidable offense because of Christ (Mt 26:31; Rom 9:33; 1 Pt
2:8) and the Cross (Gal 5:11). We must be careful that we actually present
the gospel, which one must believe to be saved. It will only damn souls if
in our zeal to get the world to accept the gospel, we preach another gospel
acceptable to the world.
Let us remember Dirk Willems, who, as Christ's representative on earth in
another age, willingly embraced the Cross that his enemy might live. May we,
too, minister life to Christ's enemies in our age, even as we see the
followers of Allah minister death. The Cross proclaims that God is love, a
love that conquers by the shedding of Christ's own precious blood for
sinners:
In weakness like defeat He won the
victor's crown;
Trod all His foes beneath His feet by
being trodden down.
What a victory! TBC
Quotable
We cannot limit the extent to which God may use us as instruments in
communicating blessing if we are willing to yield ourselves to Him and are
careful to give Him all the glory.
George Müller
Q&A
Question: An elderly man in my congregation is suffering from some physical
ailments. He has been drawn to the Be in Health healing ministry headed by
Henry Wright, whose book A More Excellent Way has influenced many
Christians. I'm very suspicious about such ministries and wonder if Wright
is at all biblical.
Response: Wright's premise is that if one only has enough faith--or is able
to appropriate specific promises--one will never be sick, though he issues a
disclaimer that nothing is guaranteed and that neither he nor his staff are
professionals or
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