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- Will America Wake Up In Time? Obama's Religion Adviser Sees U.S.
As 'Ideal Place' For Holy Revival Of Islam, Closely Linked To Imam
Seeking To Build Ground Zero Mosque [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/a3b6ba5fe46532cf
- EU-US To Collaborate On Geoengineering, Nanotechnology, And 'Rare
Earths' [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/c53a7955c580e701
- Geoengineering: The Day After Tomorrow Has Come [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/494a3c11c82d0e03
- An "Evil Atmosphere" Is Forming Around Geoengineering [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/b165a6ddb84def62
- To Compel The Coming Of Messiah: Huge Replica Of Solomon's Temple
To Be Built In Brazil From Imported Stones From Israel "That Were
Witnesses To The Powers Of God" . . . 55-Metre High Temple Equivalent
Of 18-Storey Building Will Put "Christ The Redee [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/e03ca5e0ec441bcb
- Tisha B'Av and Sovereignty On The Temple Mount [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/9c7b365769e8b8d9
- Yahoo News notices that "anti-mosque protests are on the rise,"
but doesn't say a word about Islamic supremacism taught in mosques [1
Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/b9ffa34b60d6df79
- Leaked G20 Documents Show Carbon Taxes Still High on Globalist
Agenda [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/532e98048f4f3e83
- A SUBTLE AND DANGEROUS SHIFT [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/t/1e10716b89c9d2ee
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Topic: Will America Wake Up In Time? Obama's Religion Adviser Sees
U.S. As 'Ideal Place' For Holy Revival Of Islam, Closely Linked To
Imam Seeking To Build Ground Zero Mosque
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 22 08:22PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/7446bd74c58a8c57
*Will America Wake Up In Time? Obama's Religion Adviser
Sees U.S. As 'Ideal Place' For Holy Revival Of Islam, Closely
Linked To Imam Seeking To Build Ground Zero Mosque
* <http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=181865>
A religion adviser to President Obama has close ties to the imam who wants
to build a 13-story Islamic cultural center near Ground Zero. The two have
been documented together discussing America as "the ideal place for a
renewal of Islam," WND has learned. In February, Obama named a Chicago
Muslim, Eboo Patel, to his Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood
Partnerships. Patel is the founder and executive director of Chicago-based
Interfaith Youth Core, which says it promotes pluralism by teaming people of
different faiths on service projects. Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the
controversial Muslim leader behind the plan to build the Islamic center and
mosque two blocks from Ground Zero, wrote the afterword to Patel's 2006
book, "Building the Interfaith Youth Movement: Beyond Dialogue to Action."
Patel is listed as one of 15 "Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow" on the website for
the American Society for the Advancement of Muslims, or ASAM, which is led
by Rauf. In Patel's 2007 book, "Saving Each Other, Saving Ourselves," he
recounts discussing with Rauf the future of Islam in the U.S.
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Topic: EU-US To Collaborate On Geoengineering, Nanotechnology, And 'Rare Earths'
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Date: Jul 22 08:21PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/d95d0783436718ed
*EU-US To Collaborate On Geoengineering, Nanotechnology, And 'Rare
Earths'*<http://www.euractiv.com/en/sustainability/eu-us-collaborate-rare-earths-news-496286>
The US Congress has some experience of joint initiatives on strategic
technical issues having recently completed parallel hearings on
geo-engineering with a UK parliamentary committee. Gordon said some of his
staff would stay on in Brussels for a few days to help kick-start the
proposed cooperation on rare earths. Gordon, a 13-term congressman from
Tennessee, said another area ripe for cooperation is the emerging field of
synthetic biology. This, he said, promises breakthroughs in medicine and
alternative energy. He compared the potential of synthetic biology to
nanotechnology but warned that transparency will be key to earning public
support for advances in this area. Gordon said the EU and US must work
together to develop a body of research on the safety of the manufacture and
use these new technologies. He said better communication can help avoid a
re-run of the problems with genetically-modified foods, where American and
European consumers hold fundamentally different views. "In fact, if we have
started talking about SWIFT earlier we might not have got to where we are
today," Gordon added, referring to the row over exchange of personal data...
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Topic: Geoengineering: The Day After Tomorrow Has Come
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Date: Jul 22 08:20PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/d4e9b211eafcc117
*Geoengineering: The Day After Tomorrow Has
Come*<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/science/29scibks.html>
Imagine that it is 2050 — or even 2020 — and you are the president. Your
science adviser has brought you alarming news: Greenland's inland ice sheets
are melting so fast that sea levels are about to rise dramatically.
Moreover, thawing Arctic permafrost is about to pour huge quantities of
heat-trapping methane gas into the atmosphere, which will make the already
roasting planet even hotter. The crisis, your adviser tells you, is now.
What can you do? Quite a bit, to hear some researchers tell it. They say it
should be possible to "geoengineer" the planet to cool its increasingly
raging greenhouse fever. But they say these possibilities must be tested
now, so that when the world needs to act, the scientific community can offer
responsible advice. Their ideas are the subject of a new book, "Hack the
Planet," by Eli Kintisch, a reporter for the journal Science. Mr. Kintisch
begins by describing a two-day meeting organized to discuss the ideas, held
in 2007 in Cambridge, Mass. The meeting, under the auspices of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and Harvard University, brought together
researchers who have been thinking about these ideas for years — some with
enthusiasm, some with alarm. Geoengineering is generally defined as the
application of engineering techniques to alter the planet as a whole. As far
as climate is concerned proposals fall into two groups.
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Topic: An "Evil Atmosphere" Is Forming Around Geoengineering
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Date: Jul 22 08:20PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/a22a2cad9e398cfb
*An "Evil Atmosphere" Is Forming Around
Geoengineering<http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727696.100-an-evil-atmosphere-is-forming-around-geoengineering.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news>
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In 1892 Edvard Munch witnessed a blood-red sunset over Oslo, Norway. Shaken
by it, he wrote in his diary that he felt "a great, unending scream piercing
through nature". The incident inspired him to create his most famous
painting, *The Scream*. The striking sunset was probably caused by the
eruption of Krakatoa, which sent a massive plume of ash and gas into the
upper atmosphere, turning sunsets red around the globe and cooling the Earth
by more than a degree. Now a powerful group of scientists, venture
capitalists and conservative think tanks is coalescing around the idea of
reproducing this cooling effect by injecting sulphur dioxide into the
stratosphere to counter climate change. Despite the enormity of what is
being proposed - nothing less than seizing control of the climate - the
public has been almost entirely excluded from the planning. Up to now,
governments have been reluctant to talk about geoengineering. The reason is
simple: apart from its unknown side effects, it would weaken resolve to
reduce emissions. But it may soon prove an irresistible fix.
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Topic: To Compel The Coming Of Messiah: Huge Replica Of Solomon's
Temple To Be Built In Brazil From Imported Stones From Israel "That
Were Witnesses To The Powers Of God" . . . 55-Metre High Temple
Equivalent Of 18-Storey Building Will Put "Christ The Redee
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 22 08:19PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/cf8b141e1c7fafee
*To Compel The Coming Of Messiah: Huge Replica Of
Solomon's Temple To Be Built In Brazil From Imported
Stones From Israel "That Were Witnesses To The Powers
Of God" . . . 55-Metre High Temple Equivalent Of 18-Storey
Building Will Put "Christ The Redeemer Statue" In Shade
*<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/21/solomon-temple-brazil-christ-redeemer>
One of the world's largest and most controversial Pentecostal churches has
been given permission to build a $200m (£130m) replica of Solomon's Temple
in Brazil's economic capital, São Paulo. The 10,000 capacity "mega-church",
which is the brainchild of Brazil's Universal Church of the Kingdom of God,
will also house a replica of the Ark of the Covenant and be built according
to "biblical orientations". "We are preparing ourselves to build the temple,
in the same mold as Solomon's," the church's leader and founder, Bishop Edir
Macedo said in a televised service, posted on his blog. Macedo said his
church had signed a contract to import stones from Israel. "We have signed
the contract and commissioned the stones that will come from Jerusalem, just
like the ones that were used to build the temple in Israel; stones that were
witnesses to the powers of God, 2,000 ago," he said. "It is going to be a
knock-out, it is going to be beautiful, beautiful, beautiful — the most
beautiful of all. The outside will be exactly the same as that which was
built in Jerusalem." The 55-metre high temple, the equivalent of an
18-storey building, would tower over central São Paulo and be "twice the
height of [Rio's] Christ the Redeemer statue", the blog said.
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Topic: Tisha B'Av and Sovereignty On The Temple Mount
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From: Heaven soon <heavensoon@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 22 08:17PM -0400
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/heavensoon/msg/7fca29f7537b01f4
Tisha B'Av and Sovereignty On The Temple Mount
By Dr. Chuck Missler - July 22, 2010
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All public transportation silenced, all restaurants closed in Jerusalem on
Monday evening as the sun set. The Hebrew day of great tragedies, Tisha
b'Av, fell at sundown. In remembrance, tens of thousands of Jews gathered at
the Western Wall to pray and petition the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel.
Tisha b'Av is simply Hebrew for the 9th day of the month of Av, and it
completes the Three Weeks of mourning that began with the Fast of Tammuz.
Many disasters have befallen the Jews on the 9th of Av throughout history.
According to Jewish tradition, this was the day that God told the Children
of Israel they were prohibited from entering the Promised Land because of
disbelief. They were forced to wander in the desert forty more years until
that adult generation had died out. That tragic day was just the beginning…
On the 9th of Av in:
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586 BC, Solomon's Temple was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar, and the
Babylonian captivity began;
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AD 70, the Second Temple, which stood during Christ's ministry, was
destroyed by the Romans precisely as Jesus predicted in Luke 19;
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AD 135, the famous Bar Kokhba revolt was squelched when Bethar, the
last Jewish stronghold, fell to the Romans;
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AD 136, the Roman Emperor Hadrian established a heathen temple to
Jupiter on the site of the Jewish Temple. Hadrian rebuilt Jerusalem as a
pagan city, and renamed the land as Palestina, to distance its Jewish
heritage. The date when the Temple area was plowed under by the Romans was
the 9th of Av.
The day has continued to be associated with grief for the Jewish people
throughout history. For example, Pope Urban II declared the Crusades on the
9th of Av in 1242. The Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492 on this day,
and in 1942, the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto were mass deported to the
Treblinka extermination camp in Poland. Thus the 9th of Av, Tisha B'Av, has
become a symbol of all the persecutions and misfortunes of the Jewish
people, for the loss of their national independence and their sufferings in
exile. Above all, it is a day of intense mourning for the destruction of the
Temple.
The Temple Mount:
This week, Jews look toward the Temple Mount with even more longing than
normal. Israel has technically controlled the Temple Mount since the Six-Day
War in 1967, but the Waqf, a Muslim council, manages the site, which is
noticeably dominated by the al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock.
Israeli law is supposed to protect free access to the site, but the Israeli
government enforces a ban on any non-Muslim prayer on the Temple Mount in
order to avoid Muslim riots. Tuesday morning three Jews were removed from
the area after allegedly "trying to cause a provocation" (which could have
just included praying there), and the Temple Mount was closed to visitors at
11am.
But while Israel enforces the prayer ban and the Waqf's oversight, there is
still a deeply felt belief in the Knesset that Israel has greater legitimate
rights to the Temple Mount than do the Muslims. In the Knesset on the 9th of
Av a year ago, Dr. Mordechai Keidar commented on the lack of a Palestinian
connection to the Temple Mount, saying:
"Jerusalem does not appear in the Koran, not even once, not even in any
one of the four different names the city has in Arabic. The struggle for
Jerusalem is not territorial, it's theological. Is Judaism still a relevant
religion, or do we give in to the Muslim claim that Judaism is no longer
relevant? And that's why we heard from PA official Saeb Erekat not long ago
that they will not recognize the State of Israel as a Jewish state even in
1000 years. Why is this? Because Judaism in their eyes is irrelevant, so how
could a Jewish state be founded?"
Keidar also noted that the Palestinians are not moderate on the issue of
Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, but claim it as their own. He held up a PLO
traditional garment, which bore the words, "Jerusalem is ours."
Tuesday, Likud party lawmaker Danny Danon toured the Temple Mount with an
armed police escort. "There is full religious freedom for Jews and Muslims
on the Temple Mount," Danon said. "But it is more difficult for the Jew than
the Muslim to go and pray on the Temple Mount. This is a distortion that
must be corrected." He added, "If Jews want to go and pray on the Temple
Mount then they should be allowed to do it."
Not all Jews want people flooding the Temple Mount, however. Nobody is
certain exactly where the Holy of Holies was located, and these faithful
Jews do not want the unwitting visitor to tread on that spot. Worshipers
must first be cleansed with the ashes of the red heifer, as required in
Numbers 19, before Jews can worship freely in the Temple area.
East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount have been points of major contention in
past efforts to negotiate a two-state agreement. The Palestinians want East
Jerusalem, and the Jews do not want to give up this location that is so
precious to Judaism. The world would never expect the Muslims to hand over
control of the Kaaba in Mecca in order to keep peace, but the Jews are not
free to worship on their holiest site because they fear Muslim violence.
A Day of Mourning.... And Future Joy
Tisha b'Av is indeed a day of mourning. It is marked with sadness and
fasting from food and drink. Observant Jews avoid bathing or washing
clothes or enjoying entertainment like music or movies, and the Book of
Lamentations is traditionally read both in the evening and during the day.
On this day the Jews are reminded of their tragic history.
Yet, this day is also expressly linked with Israel's glorious destiny. The
Jews also look forward to the ultimate rebuilding of the Temple, to a time
when Tisha b'Av will become a day of joy and gladness (as it was foretold in
Zechariah 8:19).
We do know that the Temple will be rebuilt because Jesus, John, and Paul all
make reference to it (Matt 24:15; Rev 11:1, 2; 2 Thess 2:4). But we also
know that this Temple will be desecrated by the Coming World Leader when he
sets himself up to be worshiped (2 Thess 2:3-4). It is possible this
prophetic event will also take place on Tisha b'Av - and may happen in the
not-too-distant future.
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Topic: Yahoo News notices that "anti-mosque protests are on the rise,"
but doesn't say a word about Islamic supremacism taught in mosques
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Date: Jul 22 08:10PM -0400
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Yahoo News notices that "anti-mosque protests are on the rise," but doesn't
say a word about Islamic supremacism taught in mosques
No mention, of course, of CAIR's status as an unindicted co-conspirator in a
Hamas terror funding case. No mention, of course, of the studies that show
that most mosques teach hatred of Jews and Christians and the necessity to
impose Sharia. See, for example, this pdf. "Anti-mosque protests on the
rise, say Muslim advocates," by Liz Goodwin for Yahoo News, July 21 (thanks
to all who sent this in):
Opposition to the construction of mosques has skyrocketed in cities and
towns across the country, scholars and advocates of Muslim culture tell The
Upshot.
Public protests against three planned mosques have made news in the past
week: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin joined others in opposing the building
of a mosque a few blocks from the World Trade Center site. Hundreds
demonstrated against a proposed mosque in a small town in Tennessee. And
some residents of Temecula, California, are opposing the local Muslim
community's plan to build a bigger mosque, saying it could become a hotbed
of radical Islam.
Professor Akbar Ahmed, the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at
American University's School of International Service, is not surprised by
the recent spate of public protests. He spent last year traveling to more
than 100 mosques in 75 U.S. cities with a team of researchers, and concluded
that opposition to mosques, including some attacks on them, is on the rise.
"Everywhere there's a mosque, there's a tension now," Ahmed says.
Ahmed believes most Americans have little idea what goes on inside the
approximately 2,000 mosques in the country, which leads to fear and
anti-Muslim sentiment. Comments from public figures like Sarah Palin
exacerbate the problem, he says.
Palin posted Sunday on Twitter that a planned mosque near the World
Trade Center site would "stab hearts." She joined a PAC and family members
of some 9-11 victims in vocally objecting to the religious center.
"Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY
provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of healing," she
wrote. (In addition to the mosque, the 13-story, $100 million project would
include a swimming pool, gym, and performance space open to everyone,
reports ABC News.)
[No churches in Saudi Arabia? Then no mosques near Ground Zero, Gingrich
says]
"Sarah Palin's comments again were saying implicitly that mosques are
associated with violence and terrorism," Ahmed says, though he adds that he
thinks the tension over this proposed mosque is unique due to the "raw
wounds" of the 9/11 attacks. "At the highest level, even in America, we have
a [former] vice presidential candidate, she can openly make a statement like
this." [...]
Jim Zogby, the head of the Arab-American Institute, a nonprofit research
group, said there are not enough people in public life defending American
Muslims' right to worship.
"There is very little counter-thrust in the public debate, and the
result is, I think, Muslims are becoming increasingly concerned about their
security in the country," Zogby says. "This is a worrisome environment.
Something's got to give."
Opponents of mosques feel freer now to openly object to the presence of
a mosque in their community, says Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council
on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim advocacy organization.
"Mosques used to face opposition in the past, but it was usually couched
in terms of opposition to parking or traffic," Hooper says. "But you know,
it's only recently, I think, that people feel comfortable expressing their
bigotry so openly."
Of course, opponents of mosques do not consider themselves bigots, and
many are genuinely concerned that mosques may help produce homegrown
terrorists. According to the Washington Post, 34 Americans have been charged
by U.S. authorities since January 2009 with direct involvement in
international terrorism. But in many of these case, it appears the suspects
were radicalized via Internet contacts.
Ahmed says the incidents of Americans turning to jihad is a reflection
of a "failure in Muslim leadership." He says Muslim religious leaders should
have to be trained and certified, since they are in positions of power,
often over young congregations. But he adds that opposing mosques at home
will only fuel accusations from America's enemies that the country hates
Islam and Muslims.
A pastor opposed to the proposed Temecula mosque reflected these fears
of homegrown terrorism.
"There is a concern with all the rumors you hear about sleeper cells and
all that. Are we supposed to be complacent just because these people say
it's a religion of peace? Many others have said the same thing," Pastor Bill
Rench told the Los Angeles Times. ...
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Topic: Leaked G20 Documents Show Carbon Taxes Still High on Globalist Agenda
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Date: Jul 22 08:08PM -0400
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Leaked G20 Documents Show Carbon Taxes Still High on Globalist Agenda
James Corbett
The Corbett Report
22 July, 2010
This week The Corbett Report was sent documents purported to be the notes of
an attendee of the recent Toronto G20 meeting. The documents, if genuine,
show that the recent meeting once again gave the G20 a chance to discuss
global government as an answer to the ongoing economic meltdown and reaffirm
that carbon taxes are high on the globalists' priority list.
The notes were obtained from a source inside a South African bank whose CEO
was a confirmed attendee of the Toronto meeting. According to the source,
they are most likely notes from a feedback session between the CEO and bank
officials upon the CEO's return from the conference.
Download the documents in PDF format via this link or browse them in the
image set below:
According to the documents, the delegates concluded that a process of fiscal
consolidation would be the key solution to the crisis, involving
country-specific ideas with central coordination...presumably by the G20
itself. Although the delegates evidently discussed the need to address the
sovereign debt crisis "through cutting expenses and not through increased
taxes," that statement is immediately followed in this attendee's notes by
the idea of introducing carbon taxes.
The idea of funding a nascent global governmental structure through the
introduction of carbon taxes is by no means a new one, having been proposed
as a funding mechanism for a North American Union at a secret Security and
Prosperity Partnership meeting in Banff, Canada in 2006.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the idea was last floated in the G20 Finance
Ministers's meeting in Scotland last year. In leaked documents from that
meeting it was revealed that attendees had seriously discussed the
possibility of using a carbon tax to fund an international financial body
which would supposedly be entrusted to look after climate adaptation and
mitigation programs.
ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW
That the carbon tax was discussed during G20 deliberations comes as no
surprise. Nor does the fact that the delegates deliberated on the need "to
develop Global governance structures" and the desire for "coordination
across countries." The urge to use a manufactured economic crisis to
institute a new international system of governance administered by the very
bankers who created the problem in the first place has likewise been noted
for years.
But there are hopeful signs that the globalists' agenda is being derailed by
a mass political awakening among the public, exactly as key globalist
Zbigniew Brzezinski discussed in a recent speech. Perhaps the foremost
hurdle to the implementation of the G20's plans comes from fierce opposition
to the carbon tax agenda in the United States exemplified by the fact that
the current Senate climate bill is likely dead in the water. Another hopeful
sign are those passages of the leaked documents that seem to suggest that
national governments may be diverting from the globalist agenda in order to
protect their national interests, including repeated references to the
specter of increased protectionism as a result of the global downturn.
On a more ominous note, however, are references to the need to create a
"B20" or "Business 20" to give unaccountable multi-nationals an even bigger
stake in the nascent global governmental structure inherent in the G20
structure.
This year's G20 drew the ire of Canadians and concerned citizens around the
world for its $1.3 billion security budget and brutal treatment of
protestors. The next G20 summit will take place in November in Seoul, Korea.
http://www.corbettreport.com/articles/20100722_torontog20_docs.htm
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Topic: A SUBTLE AND DANGEROUS SHIFT
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Date: Jul 22 08:02PM -0400
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A SUBTLE AND DANGEROUS SHIFT
A Subtle and Dangerous Shift in Christianity [Excerpts]
By Marsha West
It seems everyone's practicing yoga meditation these days. Physicians
recommend it to their patients which means it's beneficial...right?
Meditation is said to relieve stress, anxiety, hypertension, acne and
post-nasal drip, so go for it! Just tighten those abdominal muscles, inhale
deeply and chant Maaaaaaaaa all in one breath and your concerns will drift
away like a feather floating on the wind...
But what if you're a Christian? Should you practice the same sorts of things
as Buddhist, Hindu's and New Agers?
Listen to what the Bible says: "This book of the law shall not depart out of
thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate thereon day and night, that thou mayest
observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt
make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success" (Josh.1:8).
On Sale until July 25! Yoga and the Body of Christ Book
Firstly, meditating day and night does not mean to stay awake for 24 hours a
day. Secondly, Christian meditation is very different from Eastern
meditation. Followers of Jesus Christ are not to sit in the lotus pose in an
altered state of consciousness seeking the "God within" like pagans do. The
Bible teaches that when Christians meditate our minds are to be fully
engaged. We are never to go into a trance-state.
What does meditation involve? "The word 'meditation' in Hebrew means
basically to speak or to mutter. When this is done in the heart it is called
musing or meditation. So meditating on the Word of God day and night means
to speak to yourself the Word of
God day and night and to speak to yourself about it."
Sometimes you need to read a passage over and over...reflect on it...analyze
it...and listen while the Holy Spirit speaks truth to you. A word of
warning: Listening to God does not require that you "empty" your mind. This
meditative practice, called Lectio divina a.k.a. spiritual formation...the
silence...best known as contemplative (centering) prayer (CP) is a growing
trend in evangelical churches despite the fact that this sort of prayer
ritual comes from teaching associated with Catholic mystics such as Meister
Eckhart, Ignatius of Loyola, St. John of the Cross, and St. Teresa of Avila.
CP was reintroduced by Thomas Merton, Thomas Keating, Henri Nouwen, William
Meninger, Basil Pennington and other mystics.
Many in the Emergent Church movement (ECM) are advancing Roman Catholic
mysticism as well. Yet they insist on being seen as mainline evangelicals.
ECM has not only introduced aberrant teaching into our churches, it
undermines the authority of Scripture....Few have bothered to deny the Bible
itself, they just misquote it, abuse its meaning, force their opinion on it,
and if necessary mistranslate it to give the appearance that the Scriptures
are backing their claims.
http://www.newswithviews.com/West/marsha198.htm
[TBC: "Meditation" as Arthur W. Pink once wrote, "stands to reading as
mastication does to eating." As a diligent "chewing" breaks up food so that
the body may utilize all of its nutritive value, so meditation in the Word
of God enables us to gain the maximum benefit.]
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