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<span style="font-family: calibri;">CHAFF IN THE WIND - Communism versus Christian Freedom</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">This article was written decades ago, but is still timely today. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">Articles
from <u>Biblical Treasures (Volume II) </u>– C. R. Dickey</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">INTRODUCTION</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The Staff at Destiny Publishers,
having read all the articles written by the late C. R. Dickey (Christina R.
Dickey) found in DESTINY Magazines from July 1938 to October 1967, received
such a blessing from her writings that we wanted to share the information with
all who are seeking God’s wonderful truths.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>We are hereby publishing all her articles in two volumes, which we
believe you will find most inspiring and of genuine interest and value.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Her knowledge of the Scriptures
was unbelievable so she must have had a very close association with her Lord,
as she certainly became a champion for His cause.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Our late beloved editor, Howard
B. Rand, realized her talent as he published many of articles in booklet form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The reader should take into
account the time element when each article was written, which was from the late
thirties to the middle sixties.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We found
her articles to be up to the minute as though she had written them yesterday.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Her writings on various subjects are backed
up with Scripture verses, as well as with quotes from reliable sources, when
making a point.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>From her writings, the
Lord surely made use of her God-given talents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Although we do not have any
knowledge of her background, we do know that she was a Congregational
minister.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Her sermons given must have
been of interest and value to her congregation.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>We are sure her articles contained in this book will do the same.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">OTHER BOOKS AND
BOOKLETS BY THE AUTHOR</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">One Man’s Destiny – recommended by Pastor Murray on 09/02/09</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">An Emerging Civilization – out of print</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">The Basic Principles in Bible Study – out of print</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">The Bible and Modernism</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">The Bible and Segregation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">Facing the Sunrise</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">Origin and Transmission of the Bible</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As the
world is being shoved steadily toward a full scale war, apprehension rises
again to plague multitudes everywhere who are already weary of strife and
uncertainty.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Christian people in
particular have been slow to see the threatening clouds of another armed
conflict gathering over the nations.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>This is due to the fact that they are “slow of heart to believe all that
the prophets have spoken.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>After
David escaped the wrath of King Saul, he confessed, “When the pangs of death
compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Our citizens, awakening belatedly to danger
from “floods of ungodly men,” now confess that they are afraid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Unfortunately,
many political and ecclesiastical leaders in Christian lands have been deluded
into believing they can and ought to do business with totalitarian leaders,
notwithstanding abundant evidence that they are tyrants, unmistakably evil,
committed to a campaign of ruthless destruction in all nations.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>These wicked planners operate in every
country around the globe.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They are the
real foes both within and without our borders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>These
scoundrels take the advantage of conspiring against fellow citizens who do not
suspect their sinister conniving.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They
are the hidden masters who train stool pigeons and place them in important
government posts to carry on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">their</i>
business of treason, sabotage and deception.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>For some years now they have seen to it that our enemies have been
supplied with implements of warfare from our own stockpiles; they sidetracked
war supplies which Congress appropriated for our friends in China and delivered
them to the Russian and Chinese Communists; they are the schemers who
maneuvered the escape of Gerhart Eisler; moreover, their unseen hands direct
the activities of the Klaus Fuchs and Harry Golds in slipping to the Kremlin
gangsters the know-how to produce our deadly new weapons, such as the atom and
hydrogen bombs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Occasionally
a Congressional committee, some energetic Senator or other investigator,
succeeds in exposing a traitor, who invariably turns out to be only a tool of
the secret conspirators.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>When exposure
comes, the stooge takes the rap.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Alger
Hiss is an example.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Who, for instance,
are the crafty planners who guided Hiss at San Francisco, at Yalta, and in the
transfer of vital documents to our enemies?<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Here, indeed, are the enemies to track down and expose.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It is dangerous business, to be sure, but men
risk their lives on the battlefront; if they would risk them as courageously to
crush despoilers at the home base, there would soon be no battles for our sons
to fight at home or abroad.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>One never
conquers a serpent until he strikes at the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">head!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Once in
a while our courts manage to indict an Eisler or a Hiss --- though they rarely
serve a sentence.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Why?<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Who, or what group, is powerful enough to
defeat justice with so much protection?<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Eisler, you will remember, was gallivanting all over the country
lecturing at Harvard and other educational institutions when he ought to have
been behind bars in a federal prison.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The full story of these treasonable activities, and the identity of the
instigators behind them, has yet to be told.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Under
what flag do these planners and their satellites operate, inasmuch as they are
disloyal to the countries in which they live?<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>At a hearing before the House investigating committee in 1931, William
Z. Foster was asked if Red followers in this country look upon the Soviet flag
as their flag.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He answered:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“The workers of this country and of every
country have only one flag and that is the Red Flag.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Undoubtedly this ensign is the Red banner of
Esau, whose bloody hand is still against every man who loves peace, freedom and
righteousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The
trial of the eleven Communist party leaders charged with conspiring to teach
the violent overthrow of the United States Government brought out some salient
points which everyone ought to remember and ponder.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Under this indictment,” one writer comments,
“evidence was that the conspiracy was carried on by secrecy, false names and
code language under the direction of emissaries of the Russian Communist
Government.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The teaching and advocacy of
violence was shown by textbooks, courses of study and accounts of lectures and
classroom discussions, in all of which the violent overthrow of capitalistic
government was presented as unavoidable in the setting up of the dictatorship
of the proletariat in the United States.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>For
example, in their discussions and recommendations, revolution was defined as
“an act in which one section of the population imposes its will upon the other
by rifles, bayonets, cannon, etc., and the victorious party is inevitably
forced to maintain its supremacy by means of that fear which its arms inspire
in the reactionaries.”</span></div>
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are some of the means proposed for subduing the United States:</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">1)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: calibri;">Invasion
of the United States by Russia through Alaska and Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">2)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: calibri;">Setting
up of a Negro republic in the South by inciting and backing the Negroes in a
revolt against the southern white population and the Government of the United
States.</span></div>
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<span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">3)</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: calibri;">Infiltration
of labor unions and all other important organizations “for the purpose of
sabotage and industrial paralysis of the country.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">At the trial of the eleven Communists an FBI man planted within
the party testified that in 1948 at a secret meeting in Boston, a woman leader
of the group declared that war between the United States and Soviet Russia
would be an unjust war and in such an instance it was the duty of the Communist
party to fight against such an unjust war, which would be an imperialistic war
on the part of the United States.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“She
said the imperialistic war <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">should be
converted into civil war.</i>”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This
same witness swore also that the party policy is to preach “peace” to the
American public, while actually supporting the military aims of the Kremlin
revolutionists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Another
FBI observer within the Communist party, who kept active membership up to the
time of his testimony in the trial, swore that at a secret meeting of
underground Communists in Ohio it was estimated that the revolution in the
United States would come within less than ten years from that date --- 1945.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>These
fantastic aims are no figment of a lunatic’s imagination.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>They are a mere fragment of an actual
diabolical plan that is in the process of realization.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The present conspiratorial blueprint seems
designed to involve the United States in a disastrous struggle in the Far
East.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Beginning in Korea, the conflict
may advance to include Formosa, the Philippines and the whole continent of
Asia; then, with American men and equipment spread thinly over a vast area, the
time would be at hand for an invasion of the United States via Alaska and
Canada; and also for sabotage and revolution throughout our forty-eight States.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>With this program well under way, the
conquest of Africa and Western Europe might well proceed simultaneously with
comparative ease.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It is quite a
plan!<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>And the tragedy is that it is
working --- for the time being --- with amazing precision.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The
following excellent summary of the situation appeared as an editorial in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Dallas News </i>on July 14, 1950, under
the title, “Movement Aimed at Weakening U.S.”:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Several
letters recently addressed to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The News</i>
have endorsed the world peace movement which has already gained several million
signers, including quite a few in this country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Whether
they know it or not, they are lending their names to a Soviet effort to cripple
the United States by limiting its preparedness program --- and especially by
working up sentiment against the use of the atom bomb.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Here is the reason why:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“The
Russian cold-to-hot war strategy is now obvious.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Without using its own troops, it is in
position to stir up war on many fronts, just as it is now carrying on war in
Korea.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We have gone to the defense of
Korea directly.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But can we afford to go
to the assistance of Formosa, Indo-China, the Philippines, India, Iran, Arabia,
Yugoslavia, Greece and Western Germany?<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The Politburo is in position to start the brushfires of warfare in all of
these places, using local man power except for top-bracket direction which
would come from Moscow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“In the
event of such a development, Russia would have the tremendous geographic
advantage of sitting on the inside of the circle of conflict.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Russia would have the short lines of
communication.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Ours would extend around
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Our
only chance would be in striking directly at the seat of the trouble ---
Moscow.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We would be able to do so
primarily through the use of air power and, if necessary, the atom bomb.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>So we have the Russian-sponsored ‘peace’
movement, aimed at arms limitation and outlawing the atom bomb, which is being
supported by mass meetings in Madison Square Garden --- for which even some
Texans seem to be falling.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Day by
day the pattern of aggression is more clearly revealed.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Even the stouthearted among us confess to a
sickening fear at the trend of events.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>Again we are hearing the old wail, “too little and too late.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>And again American servicemen are dying in a
distant land as the price of treachery and appeasement on the part of officials
at the nation’s capital who are either disloyal or incredibly stupid.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Floods of ungodly men” are not only behind
the iron curtain, they are also in our midst to advise, to deceive, to betray
--- and they make us afraid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Viewed
strictly from the human angle, ungodly forces hold an advantageous position in
the world today.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Thoughtful civilian and
military observers are not so optimistic as formerly; there is an element of
grave concern in their reports, a question as to whether or not Western
civilization will be able to survive in a showdown with Communism.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Only those who place their trust in the
Biblical promises of Divine intervention face the future with confidence.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Like the Psalmist, the trusting heart can
say:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom
shall I fear?<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The Lord is the strength
of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up
my flesh, they stumbled and fell.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Though
an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>though war should rise against me, in this
will I be confidant.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>One thing have I
desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of
the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to
inquire in His temple.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>For in the time
of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion:<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>in the secret of His tabernacle shall He hide me; He shall set me up
upon a rock.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>And now shall mine head be
lifted up above mine enemies round about me:….Deliver me not over unto the will
of mine enemies:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>for false witnesses are
risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I had
fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of
the living.”</i><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>(Ps. 27:1-6; 12-13.)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Psalm 1
is appropriately placed first in the collection because its subject forms a
suitable introduction to the Psalms which follow.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Its theme is the final destiny of man --- a
topic that recurs constantly in the Psalms.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>It contrasts the happy state of the righteous with the misery of the
wicked and names the attributes, which determine a man’s character and
destiny.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Note the simplicity and beauty,
the irrevocable truth, of these imperishable words:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">”Blessed is the man that walketh not in the
counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the
seat of the scournful.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But his delight
is in the law of the Lord; and in His law doth he meditate day and night.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>And he shall be like a tree planted by the
rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also
shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The ungodly are not so:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>but are like the chaff which the wind driveth
away.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Therefore the ungodly shall not
stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>For the Lord knoweth the way of the
righteous:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>but the way of the ungodly
shall perish.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“The
ungodly are not so.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Theologian
Delitzsch tells us that the word used in the original for “ungodly” signifies
the “loose man, the man loose from God.”<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>And W. L. Watkinson adds:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“We see
here that ungodliness is the source of all evil; ‘becoming loose from God,’ is
the point of departure to positive and universal unrighteousness.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>This great truth is often forgotten; and
where actual sin would be denounced, ungodliness is often regarded with
indulgence.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Indeed, that temper of mind
which is loose from God is by many considered the most philosophic and
desirable condition of the mind; the morality loose from God, the truest
morality; the science loose from God, the wisest science; the character loose
from God, the most sound and noble character.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>The Psalmist in this place indicates the profound error of such
reasoning.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Looseness from God, ungodliness,
is the original and fertile source of all transgression.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Enmity with God is enmity with
righteousness.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Preacher’s Homiletic Commentary.</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Blessed
is the man that walketh <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">counse</i> of the ungodly.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Evil men have attached themselves like
leeches to presidents, premiers, kings and cabinet members to guide them in the
ways that lead to destruction; and, as a rule, these wicked counselors are more
powerful in establishing national and international policies than the
acknowledged heads of governments because they are backed by the resources and
coercive machinery of international conspirators.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It is the influence of such advisers that has
created the difficulties within the nations, and between the nations, which now
exist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>If a
man is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">blessed</i> when he walks <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> in the counsel of the ungodly, it
follows that he is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">accursed</i> if he <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">does</i> heed the advice of ungodly
men.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Cursed in his counsels, cursed in
his actions, cursed in his end,” as one expositor puts it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“The
ungodly…are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Considering the power of established evil as
we see it today, and its tyrannous hold upon multiplied millions of citizens in
many countries, one is tempted to question the truth of the Psalmist’s
statement.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Surely nothing is more
worthless and ineffective than chaff; how, then, can floods of inexpressibly
cruel despots be likened to chaff?<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Yet
Israel’s inspired poet-king is not alone in making such a comparison.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The prophet Isaiah was led of the Spirit to
portray a dramatic episode which might well describe the last act in
Communism’s battle against the Lord God Almighty.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We quote Moffat’s version of Isaiah 17:
12-14:</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">”Ah, the booming of many a people, </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">Booming like sea breakers!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">Ah, the thunder of great nations,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">Thundering like the surge of the ocean!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">But the Eternal checks them,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">And they are chased afar,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">Driven like chaff before the wind,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">Like dust whirled by the hurricane –</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">At evening a terror,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">And gone by morning!</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">Such is the fate of those who ravage us,</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: calibri;">Such is the lot of those who rifle us.”</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Therefore</i> the
ungodly shall not stand in judgment.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>A
commentator with keen insight writes as follows on this point:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Although
the ungodly are in similar circumstances with the righteous, yet they derive no
profit from this favourable circumstance.<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>They are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">spiritually dead</i> and
withered.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>That which has matured in them
has faded prematurely; for they have not appropriated to themselves the
nourishment of life, and they have not formed in themselves the faculty for
this appropriation.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Without root and
without sap, they have not attained any vigor, nor brought forth any fruit
(Matt. 21:19).<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Thus they have [i]<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ripened only for destruction;[/</i>i]
unsubstantial and worthless as chaff, the sport of the wind until scattered by
the storm, they go to destruction, and leave no trace behind.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Homelitic
Com.</i>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It is
written in Matthew 3:12, that the Lord’s fan is in His hand and “he will throughly
purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the
chaff with unquenchable fire.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Psalm
37 inspires confidence and patience for such a time as this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>”<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fret not thyself because of evildoers,
neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>For they shall soon be cut down like the
grass, and wither as the green herb….The wicked plotteth against the just, and
gnasheth upon him with his teeth.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The
Lord shall laugh at him:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>for he seeth
that his day is coming….I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading
himself like a green bay tree.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Yet he
passed away, and, lo, he was not:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>yea, I
sought him, but he could not be found.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span></b>Since the fate of the wicked
is thus sealed by Divine decree, the question arises, Why are they permitted to
flourish and threaten the safety of the Christian nations as they are now
doing?<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Perhaps our question can best be
answered by quoting the Rev. W. I. Watkinson:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“History
relates that Redwald, King of East Anglia, built a church, at one end of which
was an altar for the sacrifice of the mass, and at the other end an altar for sacrifice
to the old British idols.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>How frequently
the Church is in danger of making analogous compromises, allowing certain evils
to exist within its borders for the sake of gold, or popularity, or peace.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It must not be, or God will not dwell with
us.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>And we must remember this in our <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">personal</i> life.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>‘Rest assured, Christ will not live in the
parlor of our hearts if we entertain the devil in the cellar of our
thoughts.’<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Spurgeon</i>)<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>God does not
tolerate wickedness.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It is no part of
His pleasure, no part of His policy, that evil should be found in the human
heart or in the world.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Homiletic Com., </i>Psalms, Vol. I, p. 18.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>As a
nation of nominal Christians we have not put evil away from us as Israel was
commanded to do.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>If we are an Israel
nation and a body of Christian believers, as we say, then we are under God’s
mandate to cleanse both State and Church from the works of
unrighteousness.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>“Thou shalt put evil
away from among you” is the command as stated in Deuteronomy in chapters 13,
17, 19, 22 and 24.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>If one objects to the
teaching in these chapters because they are in the Old Testament, let him turn
to I Corinthians 5:11-13 and read:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">”But now I have written unto you not to
keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous,
or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one
no not to eat.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>For what have I to do to
judge them also that are without?<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Do not
ye judge them that are within?<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But them
that are without God judgeth.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Therefore
put away from among yourselves that wicked person.”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Israel
was disobedient in the days of old; Israel is disobedient now --- it is a
stubborn family trait.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Surely Christ
will not punish His bride whom He loves so much, some say.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But the bride must be prodded awake, lest her
Lord should come at midnight, and find her sleeping.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She has not made herself ready.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>She dallies irresponsibly --- not realizing
that the hour is late.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Even now the
bride ought to be attired in the wedding garment of righteousness, waiting for
her Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Thinking
of the unspeakably horrible fruits of evil --- the enslavement and torture of
helpless human beings, the snatching of 25,000 little children from their homes
in Greece alone, the fate of American lads forced into combat with demon-possessed
monsters --- one is led to understand what our Lord meant when He said we
should pray, “Deliver us from evil.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>We
understand, too, the burden of Israel’s king when he prayed:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">”Judge me, O God, and plead my cause
against an ungodly nation:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>O deliver me
from the deceitful and unjust man.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>For
thou art the God of my strength:<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>why
dost thou cast me off?<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Why go I mourning
because of the oppression of the enemy?<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>O send out Thy Light and Thy Truth:<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>let them lead me; let them bring me unto Thy Holy Hill, and to Thy
Tabernacles.”<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>(Ps. 43:1-3.)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>These
lines from an old hymn challenge our faith:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">“The storm may war without me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">My heart may low be laid;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">But God is round about me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;">And shall I be afraid?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: calibri;"><span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>There
is no man living in the world today who can save us from the terror and
destruction which floods of ungodly men plan to bring upon the Christian
nations.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>But the apostle Peter points us
to One --- the only one --- who can save us:<span style="margin: 0px;">
</span>“The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to
reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment, to be punished” (II Peter
2:9).<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Thanks be unto the Lord our
Christ, who <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">knows how</i> to deliver us
from evil! </span></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: calibri;"></span>Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-40802627223712981432016-05-19T22:07:00.001-07:002016-05-19T22:08:22.037-07:00A Backward Look by CR Dickey "What is Anti-Semitism? <br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Articles
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">INTRODUCTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Staff at Destiny Publishers,
having read all the articles written by the late C. R. Dickey (Christina R.
Dickey) found in DESTINY Magazines from July 1938 to October 1967, received
such a blessing from her writings that we wanted to share the information with
all who are seeking God’s wonderful truths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are hereby publishing all her articles in two volumes, which we
believe you will find most inspiring and of genuine interest and value.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Her knowledge of the Scriptures
was unbelievable so she must have had a very close association with her Lord,
as she certainly became a champion for His cause.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Our late beloved editor, Howard
B. Rand, realized her talent as he published many of articles in booklet form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The reader should take into
account the time element when each article was written, which was from the late
thirties to the middle sixties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We found
her articles to be up to the minute as though she had written them
yesterday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her writings on various
subjects are backed up with Scripture verses, as well as with quotes from
reliable sources, when making a point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>From her writings, the Lord surely made use of her God-given talents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Although we do not have any
knowledge of her background, we do know that she was a Congregational
minister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her sermons given must have
been of interest and value to her congregation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are sure her articles contained in this book will do the same.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">A Backward Look<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Everyone
who drives an automobile knows that safety depends upon the backward look as
well as the forward look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Disaster may
result quite as often from not knowing what is behind as from not looking
ahead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so it is in guiding the
course of nations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>An
illustration now much in the news is the Palestine situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only a few people, comparatively speaking,
realize how quickly the flame smoldering in that region may explode in the face
of the world, involving our country in the deadliest war of all time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The danger is all the more imminent because
our leaders of State, uninformed and even misinformed by leaders of Church, do
not know the background of the issues involved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They boldly move to portion out the land of sacred history to Jews and
Arabs, because they have never looked back to determine the real ownership of
the land, and the origin of the conflicting participants in the Palestine
struggle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Speaking
to His servant nations of Israel, after their redemption by Christ and their
lapse in forgetfulness of their very origin, God said through the Prophet
Isaiah:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"Bring forth the blind people that
have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be
assembled:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who among them can declare
this, and shew us former things?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let
them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified or let them hear,
and say, It is truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ye are my
witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Isa. 43:8-10)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>Who indeed can "shew us
former things," and bring forth witnesses able to declare the truth and
justify their words?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Isaiah 51:1-2,
the Lord commands us to wake up and take a backward look in order to find out who
we are, and from whence we came.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"Hearken to me, ye that follow after
righteousness, ye that seek the Lord:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and the hole of the pit whence ye
are digged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look unto Abraham your
father, and unto Sarah that bare you:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him."<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>This message is clearly
addressed to Israelites of the Abrahamic covenant:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"Awake,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord;
awake as in the ancient days, in the generations of old." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Isa. 51:9.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>However, they are a very
different people from the Jews, who are now generally regarded as Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Israel people addressed in this chapter
are ignorant alike of their past and their future; consequently, they have lost
direction both as to their origin and their destiny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are urged to study their beginning and
trace their ancestry to Abraham and Sarah, because they no longer remember
their genealogy or their ancient history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now
what Jew ever forgot his Abrahamic lineage -- or permitted anyone else to
forget it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although usually maintaining
silence on the subject, orthodox Jews are aware of the fact that many
present-day Jews are not of Israel-Judah stock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are Jews only by religious or political affiliation with Judaism;
yet these proselytes, in company with the posterity of those Jews who Christ
condemned for unbelief, claim descent from Abraham and Jacob, and clamor for
all the special privileges divinely promised to a redeemed and regenerated
Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Let us
look further in the characteristics of these latter-day Israelites of Bible
prophecy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are people "that
follow after righteousness...that seek the Lord."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus they have already been the recipients of
the Gospel, as stated in Isaiah 51:5:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">My righteousness is near; my salvation is
gone forth."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>They
are not a scattered people without a country; they are Christian nations, some
of them dwelling in the Isles, who recognize and employ -- though imperfectly
at the present time -- the principles of Divine law as the foundation of stable
government:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"Hearken unto me, my people; and give
ear unto me, O my nation....The isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall
they trust....Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose
heart is my law."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Isa 51:4-7.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>In the fourth chapter of
Romans, the Apostle Paul explains the relation existing between redeemed Israel
and Abraham.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In part he says:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"For what saith the scripture?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto
him for righteousness....For the promise, that he should be the heir of the
world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the
righteousness of faith....Therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace;
to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is
of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the
father of us all;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(As it is written, I
have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God,
who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they
were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who against hope believed in hope,
that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was
spoken,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So shall thy seed be....Now it
was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; if we believe
on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered for our
offences, and was raised again for our justification."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Rom. 4:3-25.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>Hebrews 11:11-12 confirms
the faith of Sarah also as a vital part of Israel-Christian heritage:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"Through faith also Sarah herself
received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was
past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore sprang there even of one, and him
as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand
which is by the sea shore innumerable."<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>Now it is this faith and
righteousness of Abraham and Sarah which distinguishes the latter day redeemed
Israelites of Isaiah's prophecies from faithless, unbelieving Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The numerical expansion of Israel in the
Christian era is also not applicable to Jewry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The prophets visioned Israel as being a nation and company of nations forever,
with the Lord's throne in their midst, occupied in every generation by a regent
from the line of David, until the return of Christ as King.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bible prophets including our Lord, saw the
Jews cast out of the Kingdom and continuing as a scattered remnant, few in
number, without a nation or a throne.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jeremiah
saw latter-day Jewry as "evil figs, which cannot be eaten," that is
assimilated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He describes them exactly
as the world has known them for almost two thousand years, in this remarkable
prophecy:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"And I will deliver them to be removed
into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a
proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive
them."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Jer.24:9.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>These
are the people who are laying claim to Palestine, presumably on scriptural
grounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is in their interest -- and
because of their domineering pressure -- that our government officials have
foolishly intervened to effect the partitioning of the land to Jews and
Arabs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The twofold results of this folly
are clearly stated by the prophets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>First, the Jews will not succeed in establishing a Jewish State and
homeland in Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their failure is
written in Jeremiah 24:10, which concludes his vision of the "evil
figs":</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"I will send the sword, the famine,
and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I
gave unto them and to their fathers."<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>This fate was pronounced
against Jews who once held an inheritance in the land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How much more severely will it apply to usurpers
who "Say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan"
(Rev. 2:9).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
second result of meddling in Palestinian affairs concerns the United
States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The course our politicians have
taken will be the direct cause of untold distress and tragedy for our own
people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Writing of catastrophic events
immediately preceding the return of Christ, Zechariah states that Jerusalem
will be the storm center of contention and confusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, in following declaration, he warns the
nations to refrain from interference in the dangerous situation:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"The burden of the word of the Lord
for Israel....Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the
people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and
against Jerusalem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in that day will
I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all that burden themselves with it shall be
cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against
it."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Zech. 12:1-3.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>Through Isaiah God points
out that Israel's leaders are responsible for the consequences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They betray the people into the hands of
treacherous conspirators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Prophet
writes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His watchmen are blind;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they are all ignorant, they are all dumb
dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Isa. 56:10.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>Blind, ignorant, dumb,
asleep!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a charge against the
national and spiritual leaders of God's Israel who He redeemed by the blood of
His Son on Calvary's cross!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No wonder
the Prophet calls us to wake up and look back -- to our birthright in Joseph.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(See Genesis 48 and I Chronicles 5:1-2.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nothing
would do more at this moment to clear the atmosphere of mental fog than for
citizens of this country to take a look into the past and find out the actual
meaning of anti-Semitism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a bugaboo
it has become through deceptive use!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When all the camouflage is removed, the term "anti-Semitism"
simply means "against Semites."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Who, then, are Semites?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Semites
are the descendants of Noah's son Shem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore, anti-Semitism, meaning literally antagonism toward all the
descendants of Shem, cannot be applied honestly to a small segment of people
called Jews, many of whom are not even of Semitic origin, as we shall see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is true that Abraham was a Semite, being
in the direct line of Shem; but there were ten generations from Shem to Abraham
--- all of them Semites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Furthermore,
Abraham himself was the progenitor of several distinct racial strains besides
the Israelites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, there was
Ishmael, son of Abraham by Sarah's maid Hagar, whose descendants have been
identified as the Arabs of today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next
there was Esau, Jacob's twin brother, who became the father of the Edomites,
known also as Idumeans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then another
separate line resulted from Abraham's six sons by Keturah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All these Abrahamic peoples and their
descendants to this day are Semites, although they are not Israelites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thus in
waging their campaign of hate against the Arabs, the Jews themselves are really
anti-Semitic in a big way.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></i>Arabs know about their
Semitic background and claim Abraham as their father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are taught in the Koran that Abraham
built the city of Mecca for Ishmael.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This seems credible when we consider Abraham's deep concern for
Ishmael's welfare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually, Arab
leaders are amazed by Anglo-Saxon stupidity on the subject.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jewish leaders, too, are much better informed
on these racial origins than Christians; but the success of their plans for
world domination depends upon keeping Christendom blindfolded and sympathetic
toward their aims, by sending out a steady stream of unholy propaganda
regarding the Holy Land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As a
matter of fact, neither Jews nor Arabs hold an exclusive right to
Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To whom, then, does Palestine
belong?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We shall not take time to quote
all the terms of God's covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as stated in
such passages as Genesis 12:1-3; 13:14-17; 17:1-8, 15-21; 22:15-18; 26:1-5;
28:1-4; 35:9-12; however, anyone not familiar with these passages should study
them carefully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This perpetual,
unconditional covenant guaranteed that Abraham would father many nations and
kings through Sarah's son Isaac, and that "all the land of Canaan"
would be included "for an everlasting possession."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their posterity would also become an
innumerable multitude and possess the gates of their enemies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In confirming the covenant to Jacob at
Bethel, God changed his name to Israel, and added this significant decree:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"A nation and a company of nations
shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; And the land which I
gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will
I give the land."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Gen. 35:11-12.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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the progress of God's covenant with Israel that both Christians and Jews need
particularly to take a studious and unprejudiced backward look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the spot where we lose the key to
Israel's history, especially in its relation to the greatest nations of our own
day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For
more information on the development of the "nation and a company of
nations" promised to Jacob-Israel in Genesis 35, we must turn to Genesis
48.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that important document the dying
Jacob confers his Israel name and birthright upon the two sons of Joseph,
declaring that Manasseh would become a "great people" and Ephraim
would become "a multitude of nations."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore, Jacob states (v. 16) that the
future nation and company of nations of Manasseh and Ephraim will carry the
name Isaac in fulfillment of Genesis 21:12, "for in Isaac shall thy seed
be called," which they do at the present time in calling themselves
Saxons; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">i.e., sons of 'Saac.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Two
points stand out clearly in studying the terms of God's covenant with
Israel:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a) </i>the birthright included a title deed to all the land granted to
Abraham in the original charter, which comprised Palestine and probably a
considerable portion of land east of the Jordan; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">b) </i>at the end of Jacob-Israel's life the birthright was conferred
exclusively upon the House of Joseph.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This tremendously important fact is established not only in Genesis 48,
but in Genesis 49:22-26, and in I Chronicles 5:1-1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The latter leaves no room for doubt in this
declaration:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"For Judah prevailed above his brethren,
and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's."<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>Thus the land of Palestine
was mandated by the Lord God Himself to the nation (great people), and company
of nations, to issue from Joseph's two sons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To them also was committed a sacred trust and responsibility, namely,
the administration of God's laws for Israel, that through their obedience and
righteousness all the nations of the earth might be guided and blessed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ephraim is destined to take the lead in
administration, but Manasseh must share the responsibility under God's plan and
direction (Gen. 48:20).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An unbiased
review of history will show that the United States and Great Britain are the
only nations that meet all the specifications for the House of Joseph mentioned
by Moses and the prophets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
question now arises, If the foregoing statements are true, do the Arabs have
any claim to Palestine as a homeland?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While Arabs hold no covenant deed to the land, they have two valid claims
to live in it:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>one is the right of
conquest and continuous residence for 1300 years; the other is a right based on
the promise made to their forefather Ishmael that he should be permitted to
"dwell in the presence of all his brethren" of Israel, since, he,
too, was Abraham's son (Gen.16:12).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Lord said to Abraham:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"As for Ishmael, I have heard
thee:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Behold, I have blessed him, and
will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall
he beget, and I will make him a great nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But my covenant will I establish
with Isaac."</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(See Gen.
17:18-21; 25:16.)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Arabs,
therefore, are not to be deprived of their right to live in the Holy Land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, they have a stronger claim to that
privilege than the aggressive Zionists who are determined to dispossess
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What about the racial background
of these internationalists -- now calling themselves Zionists and claiming to
represent the whole House of Jacob-Israel -- who are responsible for the
present upheaval in Palestine?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lest we
should be accused of prejudice, we shall let a Jewish industrialist answer the
question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His answer needs wide
publicity and constant repetition until the truth begins to take root in
Christian thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following
paragraphs are quoted from a letter originally written to the National Economic
Council, Inc., and reprinted in DESTINY Magazine for January 1948:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Popular
ignorance of the real basis of political Zionism is beyond calculation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaguely most Christian Americans have the
idea that the Jews claim Palestine because it was the 'Promised Land' in which
they lived for a period of a few centuries that ended 2,000 years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the thought of a people returning to its
'homeland' seems emotionally satisfying and good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"But
here are facts most Americans do not know:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Political Zionism is almost exclusively a movement by the Jews of
Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But these Eastern European Jews have neither a racial nor an historic
connection with Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Their
ancestors were not inhabitants of the 'Promised Land.'<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are the direct descendants of the people
of the Khazar Kingdom, which existed until the 12th century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"The
Khazars were a non-Semitic, Turko-Finn, Mongolian tribal people who, about the
1st century A.D., emigrated from Middle Asia to Eastern Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There they created one of the largest
kingdoms of their time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At its greatest
extent it covered an area of about 800,000 square miles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About the 7th century A.D., the King of the
Khazars adopted Judaism as the state religion, and the majority of inhabitants
joined him in the new allegiance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before
that date there was no such thing as a Khazar whose ancestors came from the
Holy Land....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"In
view of this fact, what becomes of the cry for 'repatriation' to the
'homeland'?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These Eastern European,
Yiddish-speaking Jews have no historic or racial connection with Palestine, or,
for the matter, with the other Jews who existed in other countries for
thousands of years prior to the Khazar conversion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"At
best, the cry of truly Palestinian-descended Jews for a return to the
'homeland' would be highly dubious....And if the claim of Palestinian-descended
Jews is so dubious, what of the claim of Khazar-descended Jews?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would a single Christian support their trek
back to the 'homeland' or want to oblige them by expelling the Arabs, if it
were known that these Eastern European Yiddish-speaking Jews who form the
Zionist group practically <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in toto, </i>have
neither a geographic, historic nor ethnic connection with either the Jews of
the Old Testament of the land known today as Palestine?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"If
the Jewish claim to Palestine is tested as the only other remaining ground, the
religious, it may be summarily and finally replied that religiously both Christians
and Moslems also have religious roots there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The reason it is called the 'Holy Land' today is because Jesus of
Nazareth lived and died there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To
Christians He is the Son of God and Saviour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To Mohammedans He is a great prophet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To official Jewry, He is an executed blasphemer."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There
were other non-Israel infiltrations into Jewry besides the Khazars of European
Russia; among them were the black Jews of Malabar and Abyssinia, and the
Mongoloid Jews of China.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps the
most important of these infiltrations, from the standpoint of influence, is the
intrusion of Esau's descendants into Jewry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As David Davidson says in a lecture titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Palestine:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esau Claims
Possession:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"The
people of Jacob exist today in the English-speaking peoples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, the race of Esau survives and
persists, absorbed in that remnant of the Israelitish tribe of Judah known as
the Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The latter fact of history is
disclosed by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Encyclopedia Biblica</i>,
and is acknowledged by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Jewish
Encyclopedia....</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"The
race of Esau were the Edomites of Old Testament history and the Idumeans of New
Testament times, and included the marauding Sinaitic tribe of Amalek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dominant physiognomy and aggressively
intrusive characteristics of the race were derived from the native stock of
North Syria through the 'Hittite' wives of Esau. and by subsequent
intermarriage between the Edomites and 'Hittites."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the Edomites (or Idumeans) were
absorbed into the remnant of Judah, after 130 B.C. but mainly in the dispersion
following the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., the Edom-'Hittite'
physiognomy eventually emerged as the European Jewish type of physiognomy --
falsely called 'Semitic."...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Herod
the Great was an Edomite and became the first Idumean 'King of the
Jews."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As such he sought to destroy
our Lord at birth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At that time the
Idumeans had been comprised in the Jewish state and had been Jews in religion
for over a century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They dominated the
whole of Jewish life and our Lord, in revealing the nature of the Herodian or
Idumean Domination, refers to the 'leaven of Herod' as the antithesis of the
'leaven of the Kingdom of God.'<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the
'Revelation of Jesus Christ' (Rev. 1:1) the effect of the intrusion is referred
to as 'the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the
synagogue of Satan' (Rev. 2:9).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"The
Idumean intrusion has brought a blight upon true Jewry and has placed an
undeserved stigma upon the name Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Behind the mask of Idumean physiognomy neither Jew nor Christian can
discern what is true and what is false in Jewry, except by their respective
works....Josephus, in describing the conditions internal to the Roman siege of
Jerusalem, reveals how the race of Esau (as the Idumeans) were mainly
instrumental in inflaming the hatreds of the three internal factions of disintegration,
which three factions have their counterparts in the three politico-economic
world factions today."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>From
such reliable evidence we may safely conclude that Zionists, for the most part,
are a nondescript mixture of races masquerading as Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They did not originate in the tribe of Judah
and their ancestors did not belong to the Kingdom of Judah which disintegrated
at the time of the Babylonian captivity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Zionists are denounced as impostors by such prominent orthodox Jews as
Benjamin H. Freedman and Dr. I M. Rabinowitch, who see in political Zionism a
false, alien element working toward the destruction of everything stable,
decent and spiritual in human society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is this contradictory element in Jewish history which is so confusing
to Christians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>C. F. Parker calls attention
to it in a recent article in which, after referring to modern Idumean-Hittites
and their claim to be the seed of Israel, he says:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"It
is remarkable that pogroms against the Jews have constituted seeming contradictions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the first Jesuits were Jews, as indicated,
why should they persecute their own people?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If, however, they were Edomites masquerading as Jews, their desire to
eliminate Judah is easily understood....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Central
Europe has been a prolific source of contradictory elements in Jewry, and this
can only be explained through a duality within that people:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the false seeking to destroy that cherished
by the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Communism, the product of
Marx, and allied teachings, promulgated and supported by numbers of Jews, are
odious to the Orthodox....The two elements are quite incompatible; and it is
only with the pious, religious element of Jewry that Christians have anything
in common in their acceptance of the Old Testament, and their belief in a
Divine, as distinct from a Herodian, Messiah."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
National Message, London, England, </i>January 3, 1948.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Zionists,
therefore, have no claim -- scriptural or otherwise -- to the land of
Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Arabs have no ownership in
the land, but they do hold a scriptural right to live there in peace, as we
have seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even orthodox Jews, who stem
from Judah hold no scriptural mandate over Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Far from being the whole of Israel, they are
only a small portion of the one tribe of Judah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Furthermore, the birthright -- carrying with it the Israel-Saxon name
and mandate over the covenant land -- did not go to Judah, but to Joseph's two
sons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, by Divine edict,
mandatory powers over the Holy Land belong solely to the "nation and
company of nations" of Ephraim and Manasseh or, in other words, to Great
Britain and the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And there
are no Arabs, Zionist Jews, or Judah Jews in the House of Joseph.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
tragedy now arising out of the situation lies in the fact that Christians in
Britain and America do not realize that the mandate belongs to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We cannot escape divinely-imposed
responsibility, however, nor will we escape the tribulation which is sure to
follow willful disobedience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
accept erroneous ideas with alacrity because we do not take the time or trouble
to find out the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A case in point
is the Balfour Declaration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of our
people have been convinced by Zionists, and even by Christian leaders, that its
terms have been violated by the British Government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But have they read it to find out?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyone who investigates for himself will know
that the Archbishop of York declared the truth when he said:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"No
pledge was ever given by the British government that Palestine should be handed
over to the Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pledge of the
Balfour Declaration was that within in there should be established a national
home for the Jewish people without prejudice to the civil and religious rights
of existing non-Jewish communities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
promise has been faithfully observed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Palestine
today is the home of over 600,000 Jews....Without the good will and the active
protection of the British government, it would have been impossible for the
Jews to have made this home....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"When
I visited our Forces in Palestine last March (1946), the country was like an
armed camp in which everyone was incessantly on the alert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By unscrupulous and violent propaganda many
of the Jews, especially the younger men and women, have been worked up to such
a condition of hysterical fanaticism that they have been brought to believe
that Great Britain was responsible for the awful sufferings of their race in
Europe."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(From report of the
Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry, in York Diocesan Leaflet.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">*In 1948 Israel
became a state!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fig Tree?</span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In like
manner many high government officials have been sold on the partition plan for
Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps we should say that
some of them are not convinced that the plan is necessary, fair or feasible,
but they are consenting to it under the pressure of political expediency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will they be tricked and pushed into sending
U. S. troops to Palestine?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If not, they
will be squarely up against the alternative of leaving the gate wide open for
Russia to take over the Middle East and its vast resources when Britain withdraws
from that area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either course threatens
disastrous results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Informed
people in all nations wait with apprehension to see the outcome of United
States participation in the Palestine debacle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is truly a colossal blunder on the part of irresponsible politicians
which promises nothing but dire consequences for the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Blind,
ignorant, dumb, asleep" -- so the Prophet described the national and
spiritual leaders of latter-day Israel<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>nations!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If United States
government officials had been standing by Britain in upholding our share of
responsibility in the Palestine mandate, instead of bargaining for Jewish
votes, the present crisis could have been averted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the Church leaders had been teaching this
generation the truth about God's plans for modern Israel, we would have
enlightened and courageous statesmen guiding the nations toward peace instead
of war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We now
begin to see why it is so important for Christian-Israel nations to know their
origin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No wonder God commanded us to
examine our racial beginning in Abraham and Sarah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today our very existence as free peoples is
jeopardized by wholesale ignorance on this vital subject.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Anglo-Saxons should suddenly come to a
realization of their Israel-Joseph origin, the vehement flame of Zionism would
be extinguished swiftly by a mighty wave of righteous indignation.</span></div>
Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-26199074049820975042015-06-24T18:05:00.002-07:002015-06-24T18:05:48.430-07:00The fight for Mustangs to remain wild and freeHere is a link to a great article with beautiful pictures of the wild horses.<br />
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<a href="http://rtfitchauthor.com/tag/salt-wells-creek/">http://rtfitchauthor.com/tag/salt-wells-creek/</a>Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-82958337703444412082013-02-01T14:42:00.002-08:002013-02-01T14:42:28.015-08:00America's Saxon Heritage - CR Dickey article from DESTINY Magazine<br />
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from "Biblical Treasures (Volume II)" written by CR Dickey (pages
446-451)<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">American's
Saxon Heritage<o:p></o:p></span></span></u></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A student of genealogy, Dr. Burhl B.
Gilpin, Jr., discovered some interesting facts when his studies led him to
obtain the genealogy of the Washington family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In that record he found genealogical confirmation of the migration
pattern of the Caucasians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
information is taken from a book in the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C.,
written by Albert Welles, titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pedigree
and History of the Washington Family.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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information concerning the background of the beloved "Father of our
Country" -- the immortal George Washington:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Odin (first King of Scandinavia,
B.C. 70), came from Asaland or Asaheim, east of Tanais.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He endeared himself to the Asiatic subjects,
successful in every combat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Son of Fridulf,
supreme ruler of the Scythians, in Asaland or Asaheim, Turkestand, between the
Euxine and Caspian Seas in Asia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
reigned at Asgard, whence he removed B,C, 70 and became first King of
Scandinavia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Died B.C. 50 and was
succeeded by sons who ruled in different parts of Scandinavia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Frode Fredigot, fourth
generation, was King of Denmark at the time of Christ, died A.D 35.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Thorfin the Dane was the 32nd
generation from Odin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He founded the
Washington family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Born about A.D.
1000.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His ancestors came from Schleswig,
in Denmark and settled in Ebor or Yorkshire, prior to the Norman conquest.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Col. John Washington was the
51st generation from Odin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He migrated
to America and settled in Virginia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
was the great-grandfather of George Washington."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Note that the first paragraph of this
record contains a sentence of tremendous historical significance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It states that Odin was the "Son of
Fridulf, supreme ruler of the Scythians, in Asaland or Asaheim...between the
Euxine and Caspian Seas in Asia."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This sentence places the family of Washington right in the midst of the
migrating Israelites as they moved from Assyria -- by way of the Caspian Sea,
the Caucasus Mountains, and the Black Sea into Europe, where their exploits
changed the face of a continent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This transmigration of the major
portion of Israel's clans from the land of their captivity was the greatest
mass movement of a multi-tribed kingdom of kindred people in the history of the
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These captive Israelites were
once proud citizens of the Northern Ten tribed Kingdom of Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were a people of prophetic destiny and
could not be subdued by their captors.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Dr. J. Llewellyn Thomas points out
that the Kingdom of Judah was not involved in Israel's transition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"This migration," he says,
"took place about a century after their main deportation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let it be noted that it commenced before the
destruction and carrying away of the Kingdom of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Israel had started on their migration out of
the land of their captivity into the southeast of Europe before Judah ceased to
exist as a kingdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Note that when the
Jews returned, the main body of the Israelites were in Ar-Sareth, over a
thousand miles from Babylon....This migration into Europe took place at the
time when the great Assyrian Empire was falling before the rising of the new world
Empire of Babylon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Israel seized the
favorable opportunity of escaping into Europe."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One other fact must be mentioned here
to keep the record straight; indeed, it is a point of peculiar import even in
these latter days, though generally ignored or forgotten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is true, as Dr. Thomas says, that the
Southern Kingdom of Judah as a whole was not involved in Israel's deportation,
nor in the mass migrations westward which took place in subsequent years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, there is one brief record concerning
Judah which is of supreme importance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is found in II Kings 18:9-13, which we quote in part:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"It
came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of
Hoshea...king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria,
and besieged it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And at the end of three
years they took it:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>even in the sixth year
of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was
taken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the king of Assyria did carry
away Israel unto Assyria....Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did
Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and
took them."<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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these:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"In the sixth year of Hezekiah's
reign, Shalmaneser captured Samaria and deported Israel to Assyria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, eight years later, in the fourteenth
year of king Hezekiah, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">"did
Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and
took them."<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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that these captives from the fenced<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>cities of Judah <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">were not taken to
Babylon, but to Assyria, </i>where they were henceforth identified with their
kinsmen of the ten-tribed kingdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sennacherib was unable to capture Jerusalem at that time because the
Lord had other plans for that city and the remaining remnant of Judah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was over a hundred years after these
events before the capture of Jerusalem and the deportation of its citizens to
Babylon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The key to understanding for us lies
in the fact that the Kingdom of Judah included not only the tribe of Judah, but
Benjamites, Levites and members of the royal House of David.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus, when the Assyrian king captured the
fenced cities of Judah, he transported to Assyria, not Judahites alone, but
portions of Benjamin, Levi, and the House of David.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is reliable evidence also that they
were not few in number.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sennacherib's
inscription, according to A. H. Sayce, states that the number of cities taken
was 43, and that he took captive "200,150 men of Judah."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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all the tribes of Jacob-Israel into the multitudes of Israel assembled in
Assyria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These people were not
"Jews" and have never been so designated in subsequent history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this means God assembled representatives
from every family of Jacob to participate in the future glory of all Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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now ready to mention some of the names by which these people were known during
the period of their scattering and colonization.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was prophesied that they would gradually
lose their identity and call themselves by other names.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(See Hosea 2:17 and Isaiah 28:11.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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people bore before their captivity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Among others, we find three in particular:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The House of Israel, The House of Isaac, The
House of Omri.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. William Pascoe Goard
states the distinction well by saying that "Israel was a Divinely given <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">spiritual name</i>; Isaac was the Divinely
given <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">family name</i>; Omri was a
dynastic or national name."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(Post-Captivity Names of Israel.)<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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of Omri" for "the commandments, statutes, and judgments of the
Lord."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His influence in law-making,
says Dr. Goard, "is with us still.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore, the people who kept his law were called by his name:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beth Omri (House of Omri)....Whatever other
names Israel bore in the days of her residence in Palestine, such as Ephraim,
etc., she bore out into captivity these two names:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Isaac, or Saka; and Omri."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>During the captivity Israel acquired
other names and all of them are found in many forms with various spelling of
the same names.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among the variations of
Beth Omri, we find Bit Kumri, Khumri, Humri, Kimmerians, Gimmiri, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The name Isaac has also a score or more of
variations, such as Sakai, Sacae, Sakasuna, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the Sakai, too, are called Kimmerians,
Gimmirians and S<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cythians</i>, a fact that
is established by the inscriptions which are best known and which have
furnished the key to Assyriology.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>"The Sakai, who in Latin are called Sacae, were an important branch
of the Scythian nation"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Sharon
Turner, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">History of the Anglo-Saxons, </i>Vol.
I, P. 100).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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were one of the greatest military powers of the day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But many of them fail to see how this
distinction could be claimed for the Northern Kingdom of Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet in the time of Jeroboam Israel could put
800,000 "mighty" fighting men in the field, gathered from within its
own boundaries (II Chron. 13:3).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
nation able to do that would be rated a sizable military power today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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brief and incomplete.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is intended to
serve as a connecting link between the ancient past of a great Covenant Race
and their emergence as the dominant peoples and nations of the Western
World.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For further light on this fascinating
subject, we turn now to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">European and
Other Race Origins</i>, by Herbert Bruce Hannay, Esq., of the Inner Temple,
Barrister-at-Law, Advocate of the High Court of Judicature, Calcutta, and
author of "A Grammar of the Tibetan Language."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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variation in names as they appear in the different languages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following paragraphs are found in Part
III, Chapter VI:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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of the Skolotoi of European Skuthia from the time (say B.C. 92-20) when they
received into the bosom of their community the Saghian Followers of Asha who
had come from Airyan and Turan as already explained; when they adopted from
them the name of Asen; when Skuthia acquired the new name of Asaland, or
Asaheim, being then well up to the north, near the confluence of the rivers
Pripet and Desna with the Dnieper; and when their capital, now represented by
Kieff, was called Asgard....<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"According to calculations into
which I need not enter here, this period is ascertained to have been the
approximate time when ODIN, or WODEN, flourished.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Chief of the Asen, as we may now call them,
and a hero in his own country, he was afterwards deified by the pagan
descendants of his subjects, and ultimately his memory was merged in that of
the god whose name he bears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Tyrkland where, according to the northern Saga, 'Odin had great Possessions,'
was like the Swithoid-an of the Yotar of Yotland in Scandinavia, merely a
reminiscence of Airyan and Turan -- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">i.e. </i>Turkistan
-- the distant home of the SAGHS during so many centuries."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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activity, says Mr. Hannay, "the thoughts of the BETH-SAK and their
descendants had ever been concentrated upon the isles of the West, imparts no
little meaning in to the seemingly idle statement in the Saga that for Odin the
Northwest was a region -- 'where he knew by his skill in magic that a place of
refuge was reserved for him and his people.'"<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"In the old Swedish legends it is
related that Odin founded the empire of Svea, and built a great temple at a
spot called Sigtuna, near Lake Maelar, in the present province of Upland, which
was known by the Northmen under the name of the 'Lesser Swithoid,' to
distinguish it from the 'Greater Swithoid,' or Skuthia, from which they
believed he had led his followers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
Odin arrived with his twelve pontiffs or chief priests, called Diar or
Drottnar, he is said to have that a great part of the land was occupied by a people
who, like himself, had come from Swithoid, but in such long ages past that,
according to their own account, no one could fix the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These people, who call themselves 'Gota' or
'Gauta,' Goths....were so strong, that Odin was forced to make a compact with
their king Gylfe before he could settle the land."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Orte's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scandinavia</i>,
p. 59.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"One of the greatest of these
Scythian expeditions was that under the leadership of the historic Odin (who
was subsequently deified) -- see <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Historians' History of the World</i>, Vol. XVI, pp. 18-19, Odin amassed a huge
army at Asgard, in the heart of the Thyssa-getae, and marched first up the
valley of the Dnieper, then westward to the shores of the Baltic and finally
crossed the Scandinavia where he founded a new empire"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Anglo-Saxon
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Tacitus, Ptolemy and others, "It appears that the advance guard of Israel
was, by 58 B. C., occupying the countries in the northwest Europe, bordering
the North Sea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There they remained,
developing their powers and their character, till the movements to Britain
began" (Fasken).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We return now to Odin in relation to
the Washington family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Odin is
registered in the Washington genealogy as the "first King of Scandinavia,
B.C. 70."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No doubt his forebears were
distinguished leaders of clans during their westward trek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems likely that there was an Odin
dynasty both before and after the time of "Odin, first King of
Scandinavia."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The genealogy states
that Odin "was succeeded by sons who ruled in different parts of
Scandinavia."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>In his book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Royal House of Britain an Enduring Dynasty</i>, the Rev. W. M. H.
Milner quotes from a leaflet by Mr. Grimaldi in which it was stated that
"The descent of our Royal Family from the royal line of Judah is, however,
only a rediscovery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Saxon kings
traced themselves back to Odin, who was traced back to his descent from David,
as may be seen in a very ancient MS. in the Herald's College,
London."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Desiring to verify this,
Mr. Milner wrote to Herald's College and received positive assurance (dated
5-2-01) that "There is a very valuable MS. here, deducing our Saxon kings
from Adam through David" (p.28).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This MS., says Mr. Milner, "we have inspected."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is called on the back of the binding,
"Pedigree of the Saxon Kings."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Both Odin and David are listed there, he says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, on page 41, Mr. Milner traces the later
Odin dynasty as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"King Edward VII introduced to
the throne a new section of the one continuous Royal House of Britain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His mother was Queen in her own right, of the
Guelphic line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His father was a prince
of the Saxon dukedom of Coburg-Gotha, one of several branches of the House of
Wettin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To that house our King belongs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the older Saxon and Norman lines, this
newer Saxon comes from Odin whose connection with the dynasty of David we have
already discussed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">one </i>of the sons of Odin and Frea were
ancestors of Cadwallader, Roderick, and Howel the Good, whence came the Tudor
kings of England, and, through Nesta and Fleance, the Stuarts as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">second
</i>son of Odin made him progenitor of William the Conqueror.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">third</i>
he was the forefather of Egbert, the first King of England, and of Alfred the
Great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Through the union of several
lines, he was the ancestor of the Plantagenet kings and the Hanoverian
princes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fourth</i>, named Wecta, crowned by him King of Saxony (died A.D. 300),
Odin was the ancestor of Hengist, last of the kings and first of the Dukes of
Saxony.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Queen Victoria was also of this
line, by her mother."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Programs and Papers,"
prepared and distributed in 1932, by the United States George Washington
Bicentennial Commission, contain the following information on Washington's
family name and ancestry:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"For eight hundred years, through
successive generations, the name of Washington or de Wessyngton has been known
for the valor, chivalry, high code of honor, and military distinction of those
who bore it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Knights and noblemen of the
Old World and citizens of the New, each in their own turn through service and
achievement have given to it a notable place in history.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"In the process of evolution this
name, like many others known to fame, has had many variations from the modern
spelling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is apparently of Saxon
origin and is known to have existed in the twelfth century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Early records refer to the village of Warton
in Lancashire and of Wessynton in the Palatine Durham.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was from this latter village that the name
of de Wessynton was derived by the progenitor of the Washington family....In
different sections the name was spelled in divers ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other forms appearing in important records
are Weschington, Wassington, and Washington.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the standardized form of the present day this name is widely
mentioned in early country records of England and is engraved on time-worn monuments
in churches and cathedrals....<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"George Washington was great to a
great extent because of what his ancestors were before him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His great-grandfather, John Washington, came
to these shores about the middle of the seventeenth century and settled in
Westmoreland County, Virginia, on the very plantation where in later years,
George Washington was born.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"...No sooner did the head and
shoulders of George Washington rise above the great and near great about him
than his contemporaries across the sea commenced to ask, "Who is this
superman who has defied our sovereign and wrested our American possessions from
our grasp?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From which branch of our
Washingtons is he descended?'<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the
queries were set afoot, and since that time many genealogists have devoted much
study and research to the subject.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Many years were consumed in
searching for documentary evidence which would establish the English pedigree
of John Washington and of his great-grandson who had risen from the ranks to
the head of new nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Elusive clues
were followed without definite results until, through the persistent efforts of
Henry F Waters, the connecting links between the American and the English
ancestry were eventually discovered....Having established the connecting link,
it was then possible to trace the English ancestry of George Washington back
through the rector of Purleigh, to the Sulgrave branch of the family, and on
back for seven generations to John Washington, of Tewhitfield, County
Lancashire, whose great-grandson, Lawrence Washington, of Grays Inn, was Mayor
of Northampton and grantee of the Sulgrave estate, which remained in the direct
family for two generations....<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Robert Washington inherited
Sulgrave Manor....Lawrence Washington, rector of Purleigh, was next in
line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His mother, Margaret Butler
Washington, was a daughter of Margaret Sutton, through whom a strain of royal
blood descended into the veins of George Washingon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though fitted in every way to serve as a wise
and considerate Sovereign had he permitted the people to proclaim him King of
the United States of America, he most emphatically declined that honor,
preferring to be called the President."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And now a few words about Washington's
mother, whose maiden name was Mary Ball.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She, too, came from a distinguished family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The escutcheon of her family bears upon it a
black lion on a silver shield with a crest having a lion rampant, holding a
golden ball in his paws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The motto, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Coelumque Tueri</i>, means "And Look to
Heaven."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The more immediate
ancestry of Mary Ball is traced back to Col. William Ball, who emigrated to
Virginia about 1650 and settled in Lancaster County on a plantation called
Millenbeck, on the Rappahannock River.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Bicentennial "Papers"
pay this tribute to Mary Ball:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Through his maternal ancestor
there came to George Washington the strength of a philosopher and the
truthfulness of a Christian; he was taught to love God supremely, his kind
tenderly, and to be good and generous to all living creatures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And above all he was always considerate of his
mother's wishes and ever addressed her as 'Honored Madam,'<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thus paying a courtly tribute to her and
through her to her distinguished forbears."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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DESTINY Magazine, January 1937, contains this statement:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Over the entrance of the House
of Tudor Sulgrave Manor in Northamptonshire, England, hangs the Tudor Coat of
Arms, a replica of which was among the Washington heirlooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this Coat of Arms is to be found both the
Stars and the Stripes."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As we have seen, many of the early
colonists wanted to crown George Washington King of the Confederation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He declined the honor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nevertheless, their readiness to make him a
king indicates their recognition of his royal lineage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of the Founding Fathers, and many other
citizens of that time, had distinctive family heraldry; however, they said
little about their background, because of their desire to avoid the rise of
class consciousness in the new Republic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yet these facts are extremely important today because they prove beyond
the shadow of a doubt that the English-speaking and kindred peoples have a
common heritage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The interesting, though generally
unknown, facts which follow, are found in The Huguenot Society of Pennsylvania
Publication (Vol. XII, page 7).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
early colony of Virginia numbered among its prominent leaders at least twenty
whose ancestors stemmed from the same royal lines as those of Queen Elizabeth
II.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, her progenitors gave to
America some of our most eminent patriots, including the beloved Father of our
Country -- Gen. George Washington.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Others among the Queen's American cousins are a vice-president; three
cabinet officers; eight senators; Chief Justice John Marshall; six governors of
states, including Patrick Henry and Gen. Thomas Nelson, wartime governor of
Virginia and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Meriwether Lewis, the
explorer; Gen. "Light Horse Harry" Lee of the Revolution and his
still more famous son, Gen. Robert E. Lee, and a veritable host of men and
women prominent in national life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Symbolic dreams and prophetic
visions from time immemorial, have been given credence, notably in the period
covered by the Holy Scriptures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>According to the tradition the mother of George Washington saw in a
dream, when he was but a child, the measure of his future greatness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another tradition states than an aged Indian
chieftain pronounced a divine inspiration when he said of George Washington:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"'There is something bids me
speak in the voice of prophecy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Listen!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Great Spirit protects
that man, and guides his destinies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
will become the chief of nations, and a people yet unborn will hail him as the
founder of a mighty empire!'"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(From
Bicentennial Papers.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I-Saac -- David -- Odin --
Washington.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Such men,
under God, have produced the miracle of our Saxon Heritage!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Articles
from <u>Biblical Treasures (Volume II) </u>– C. R. Dickey</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">INTRODUCTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Staff at Destiny Publishers,
having read all the articles written by the late C. R. Dickey (Christina R.
Dickey) found in DESTINY Magazines from July 1938 to October 1967, received
such a blessing from her writings that we wanted to share the information with
all who are seeking God’s wonderful truths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are hereby publishing all her articles in two volumes, which we
believe you will find most inspiring and of genuine interest and value.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Her knowledge of the Scriptures
was unbelievable so she must have had a very close association with her Lord,
as she certainly became a champion for His cause.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Our late beloved editor, Howard
B. Rand, realized her talent as he published many of articles in booklet form.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The reader should take into
account the time element when each article was written, which was from the late
thirties to the middle sixties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We found
her articles to be up to the minute as though she had written them
yesterday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her writings on various
subjects are backed up with Scripture verses, as well as with quotes from
reliable sources, when making a point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>From her writings, the Lord surely made use of her God-given talents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Although we do not have any
knowledge of her background, we do know that she was a Congregational
minister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her sermons given must have
been of interest and value to her congregation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are sure her articles contained in this book will do the same.</span></div>
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Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-26043403033869008592013-01-31T17:00:00.001-08:002013-01-31T17:00:27.050-08:00A Backward Look - CR Dickey DESTINY Magazine article 1948
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Article
from <u>Biblical Treasures (Volume I) page 124</u>– C. R. Dickey</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">INTRODUCTION<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></b></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Staff at Destiny Publishers,
having read all the articles written by the late C. R. Dickey (Christina R.
Dickey) found in DESTINY Magazines from July 1938 to October 1967, received
such a blessing from her writings that we wanted to share the information with
all who are seeking God’s wonderful truths.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are hereby publishing all her articles in two volumes, which we
believe you will find most inspiring and of genuine interest and value.</span></div>
<br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Her knowledge of the Scriptures
was unbelievable so she must have had a very close association with her Lord,
as she certainly became a champion for His cause.</span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Our late beloved editor, Howard
B. Rand, realized her talent as he published many of articles in booklet form.</span></div>
<br />
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></o:p></div>
<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The reader should take into
account the time element when each article was written, which was from the late
thirties to the middle sixties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We found
her articles to be up to the minute as though she had written them
yesterday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her writings on various
subjects are backed up with Scripture verses, as well as with quotes from
reliable sources, when making a point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>From her writings, the Lord surely made use of her God-given talents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Although we do not have any
knowledge of her background, we do know that she was a Congregational
minister.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her sermons given must have
been of interest and value to her congregation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We are sure her articles contained in this book will do the same.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A Backward Look<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Everyone
who drives an automobile knows that safety depends upon the backward look as
well as the forward look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Disaster may
result quite as often from not knowing what is behind as from not looking
ahead.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And so it is in guiding the
course of nations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>An
illustration now much in the news is the Palestine situation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only a few people, comparatively speaking,
realize how quickly the flame smoldering in that region may explode in the face
of the world, involving our country in the deadliest war of all time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The danger is all the more imminent because our
leaders of State, uninformed and even misinformed by leaders of Church, do not
know the background of the issues involved.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They boldly move to portion out the land of sacred history to Jews and
Arabs, because they have never looked back to determine the real ownership of
the land, and the origin of the conflicting participants in the Palestine
struggle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Speaking
to His servant nations of Israel, after their redemption by Christ and their
lapse in forgetfulness of their very origin, God said through the Prophet
Isaiah:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"Bring forth the blind people that
have eyes, and the deaf that have ears.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be
assembled:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>who among them can declare
this, and shew us former things?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let
them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified or let them hear,
and say, It is truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ye are my
witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Isa. 43:8-10)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>Who indeed can "shew us
former things," and bring forth witnesses able to declare the truth and
justify their words?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Isaiah 51:1-2,
the Lord commands us to wake up and take a backward look in order to find out
who we are, and from whence we came.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"Hearken to me, ye that follow after
righteousness, ye that seek the Lord:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and the hole of the pit whence ye
are digged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look unto Abraham your
father, and unto Sarah that bare you:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him."<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>This message is clearly
addressed to Israelites of the Abrahamic covenant:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"Awake,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord;
awake as in the ancient days, in the generations of old."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Isa. 51:9.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>However, they are a very
different people from the Jews, who are now generally regarded as Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Israel people addressed in this chapter
are ignorant alike of their past and their future; consequently, they have lost
direction both as to their origin and their destiny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are urged to study their beginning and
trace their ancestry to Abraham and Sarah, because they no longer remember
their genealogy or their ancient history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now
what Jew ever forgot his Abrahamic lineage -- or permitted anyone else to
forget it?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although usually maintaining
silence on the subject, orthodox Jews are aware of the fact that many
present-day Jews are not of Israel-Judah stock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are Jews only by religious or political affiliation with Judaism;
yet these proselytes, in company with the posterity of those Jews who Christ
condemned for unbelief, claim descent from Abraham and Jacob, and clamor for
all the special privileges divinely promised to a redeemed and regenerated
Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Let us
look further in the characteristics of these latter-day Israelites of Bible
prophecy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are people "that
follow after righteousness...that seek the Lord."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus they have already been the recipients of
the Gospel, as stated in Isaiah 51:5:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">My righteousness is near; my salvation is
gone forth."</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>They
are not a scattered people without a country; they are Christian nations, some
of them dwelling in the Isles, who recognize and employ -- though imperfectly
at the present time -- the principles of Divine law as the foundation of stable
government:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"Hearken unto me, my people; and give
ear unto me, O my nation....The isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall
they trust....Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose
heart is my law."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Isa 51:4-7.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>In the fourth chapter of
Romans, the Apostle Paul explains the relation existing between redeemed Israel
and Abraham.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In part he says:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"For what saith the scripture?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto
him for righteousness....For the promise, that he should be the heir of the
world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the
righteousness of faith....Therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace;
to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is
of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the
father of us all;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(As it is written, I
have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even
God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though
they were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Who against hope believed in
hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which
was spoken,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So shall thy seed be....Now
it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him; if we
believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead; Who was delivered
for our offences, and was raised again for our justification."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Rom. 4:3-25.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"Through faith also Sarah herself
received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was
past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore sprang there even of one, and him
as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand
which is by the sea shore innumerable."<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>Now it is this faith and
righteousness of Abraham and Sarah which distinguishes the latter day redeemed
Israelites of Isaiah's prophecies from faithless, unbelieving Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The numerical expansion of Israel in the
Christian era is also not applicable to Jewry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The prophets visioned Israel as being a nation and company of nations
forever, with the Lord's throne in their midst, occupied in every generation by
a regent from the line of David, until the return of Christ as King.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bible prophets including our Lord, saw the
Jews cast out of the Kingdom and continuing as a scattered remnant, few in
number, without a nation or a throne.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jeremiah
saw latter-day Jewry as "evil figs, which cannot be eaten," that is
assimilated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He describes them exactly
as the world has known them for almost two thousand years, in this remarkable
prophecy:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"And I will deliver them to be removed
into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a
proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive
them."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Jer.24:9.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>These
are the people who are laying claim to Palestine, presumably on scriptural
grounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is in their interest -- and
because of their domineering pressure -- that our government officials have
foolishly intervened to effect the partitioning of the land to Jews and Arabs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The twofold results of this folly are clearly
stated by the prophets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, the Jews
will not succeed in establishing a Jewish State and homeland in Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their failure is written in Jeremiah 24:10,
which concludes his vision of the "evil figs":</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"I will send the sword, the famine,
and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I
gave unto them and to their fathers."<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>This fate was pronounced
against Jews who once held an inheritance in the land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How much more severely will it apply to usurpers
who "Say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan"
(Rev. 2:9).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A
second result of meddling in Palestinian affairs concerns the United
States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The course our politicians have
taken will be the direct cause of untold distress and tragedy for our own
people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Writing of catastrophic events
immediately preceding the return of Christ, Zechariah states that Jerusalem
will be the storm center of contention and confusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, in following declaration, he warns the
nations to refrain from interference in the dangerous situation:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"The burden of the word of the Lord
for Israel....Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the
people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and
against Jerusalem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And in that day will
I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all that burden themselves with it shall be
cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against
it."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Zech. 12:1-3.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>Through Isaiah God points
out that Israel's leaders are responsible for the consequences.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They betray the people into the hands of
treacherous conspirators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Prophet
writes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">His watchmen are blind;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they are all ignorant, they are all dumb
dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Isa. 56:10.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>Blind, ignorant, dumb,
asleep!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a charge against the
national and spiritual leaders of God's Israel who He redeemed by the blood of
His Son on Calvary's cross!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No wonder the
Prophet calls us to wake up and look back -- to our birthright in Joseph.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(See Genesis 48 and I Chronicles 5:1-2.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nothing
would do more at this moment to clear the atmosphere of mental fog than for
citizens of this country to take a look into the past and find out the actual
meaning of anti-Semitism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a bugaboo
it has become through deceptive use!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When all the camouflage is removed, the term "anti-Semitism"
simply means "against Semites."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Who, then, are Semites?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Semites
are the descendants of Noah's son Shem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Therefore, anti-Semitism, meaning literally antagonism toward all the
descendants of Shem, cannot be applied honestly to a small segment of people
called Jews, many of whom are not even of Semitic origin, as we shall see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is true that Abraham was a Semite, being
in the direct line of Shem; but there were ten generations from Shem to Abraham
--- all of them Semites.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Furthermore,
Abraham himself was the progenitor of several distinct racial strains besides
the Israelites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, there was
Ishmael, son of Abraham by Sarah's maid Hagar, whose descendants have been
identified as the Arabs of today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next
there was Esau, Jacob's twin brother, who became the father of the Edomites,
known also as Idumeans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then another
separate line resulted from Abraham's six sons by Keturah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All these Abrahamic peoples and their
descendants to this day are Semites, although they are not Israelites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thus in
waging their campaign of hate against the Arabs, the Jews themselves are really
anti-Semitic in a big way.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></i>Arabs know about their
Semitic background and claim Abraham as their father.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are taught in the Koran that Abraham
built the city of Mecca for Ishmael.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This seems credible when we consider Abraham's deep concern for
Ishmael's welfare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Actually, Arab
leaders are amazed by Anglo-Saxon stupidity on the subject.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jewish leaders, too, are much better informed
on these racial origins than Christians; but the success of their plans for
world domination depends upon keeping Christendom blindfolded and sympathetic
toward their aims, by sending out a steady stream of unholy propaganda
regarding the Holy Land.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As a
matter of fact, neither Jews nor Arabs hold an exclusive right to
Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To whom, then, does Palestine
belong?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We shall not take time to quote
all the terms of God's covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as stated in
such passages as Genesis 12:1-3; 13:14-17; 17:1-8, 15-21; 22:15-18; 26:1-5;
28:1-4; 35:9-12; however, anyone not familiar with these passages should study
them carefully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This perpetual,
unconditional covenant guaranteed that Abraham would father many nations and
kings through Sarah's son Isaac, and that "all the land of Canaan"
would be included "for an everlasting possession."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their posterity would also become an
innumerable multitude and possess the gates of their enemies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In confirming the covenant to Jacob at
Bethel, God changed his name to Israel, and added this significant decree:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"A nation and a company of nations
shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; And the land which I
gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will
I give the land."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Gen. 35:11-12.)<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>It is just at this point in
the progress of God's covenant with Israel that both Christians and Jews need
particularly to take a studious and unprejudiced backward look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is the spot where we lose the key to
Israel's history, especially in its relation to the greatest nations of our own
day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For
more information on the development of the "nation and a company of
nations" promised to Jacob-Israel in Genesis 35, we must turn to Genesis
48.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In that important document the dying
Jacob confers his Israel name and birthright upon the two sons of Joseph,
declaring that Manasseh would become a "great people" and Ephraim
would become "a multitude of nations." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore, Jacob states (v. 16) that the
future nation and company of nations of Manasseh and Ephraim will carry the
name Isaac in fulfillment of Genesis 21:12, "for in Isaac shall thy seed
be called," which they do at the present time in calling themselves
Saxons; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">i.e., sons of 'Saac.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Two
points stand out clearly in studying the terms of God's covenant with
Israel:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a) </i>the birthright included a title deed to all the land granted to
Abraham in the original charter, which comprised Palestine and probably a
considerable portion of land east of the Jordan; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">b) </i>at the end of Jacob-Israel's life the birthright was conferred
exclusively upon the House of Joseph.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This tremendously important fact is established not only in Genesis 48,
but in Genesis 49:22-26, and in I Chronicles 5:1-1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The latter leaves no room for doubt in this
declaration:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"For Judah prevailed above his brethren,
and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's."<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></b>Thus the land of Palestine
was mandated by the Lord God Himself to the nation (great people), and company
of nations, to issue from Joseph's two sons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To them also was committed a sacred trust and responsibility, namely,
the administration of God's laws for Israel, that through their obedience and
righteousness all the nations of the earth might be guided and blessed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ephraim is destined to take the lead in
administration, but Manasseh must share the responsibility under God's plan and
direction (Gen. 48:20).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An unbiased
review of history will show that the United States and Great Britain are the
only nations that meet all the specifications for the House of Joseph mentioned
by Moses and the prophets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The
question now arises, If the foregoing statements are true, do the Arabs have
any claim to Palestine as a homeland?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While Arabs hold no covenant deed to the land, they have two valid
claims to live in it:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>one is the right
of conquest and continuous residence for 1300 years; the other is a right based
on the promise made to their forefather Ishmael that he should be permitted to
"dwell in the presence of all his brethren" of Israel, since, he,
too, was Abraham's son (Gen.16:12).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Lord said to Abraham:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"As for Ishmael, I have heard
thee:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Behold, I have blessed him, and
will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall
he beget, and I will make him a great nation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But my covenant will I establish
with Isaac."</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(See Gen.
17:18-21; 25:16.)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Arabs,
therefore, are not to be deprived of their right to live in the Holy Land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, they have a stronger claim to that
privilege than the aggressive Zionists who are determined to dispossess
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What about the racial background
of these internationalists -- now calling themselves Zionists and claiming to
represent the whole House of Jacob-Israel -- who are responsible for the
present upheaval in Palestine?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lest we
should be accused of prejudice, we shall let a Jewish industrialist answer the
question.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His answer needs wide
publicity and constant repetition until the truth begins to take root in
Christian thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following
paragraphs are quoted from a letter originally written to the National Economic
Council, Inc., and reprinted in DESTINY Magazine for January 1948:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Popular
ignorance of the real basis of political Zionism is beyond calculation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vaguely most Christian Americans have the
idea that the Jews claim Palestine because it was the 'Promised Land' in which
they lived for a period of a few centuries that ended 2,000 years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the thought of a people returning to its
'homeland' seems emotionally satisfying and good.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"But
here are facts most Americans do not know:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Political Zionism is almost exclusively a movement by the Jews of
Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">But these Eastern European Jews have neither a racial nor an historic
connection with Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Their
ancestors were not inhabitants of the 'Promised Land.'<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are the direct descendants of the people
of the Khazar Kingdom, which existed until the 12th century.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"The
Khazars were a non-Semitic, Turko-Finn, Mongolian tribal people who, about the
1st century A.D., emigrated from Middle Asia to Eastern Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There they created one of the largest
kingdoms of their time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At its greatest
extent it covered an area of about 800,000 square miles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About the 7th century A.D., the King of the
Khazars adopted Judaism as the state religion, and the majority of inhabitants
joined him in the new allegiance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before
that date there was no such thing as a Khazar whose ancestors came from the
Holy Land....</span></div>
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view of this fact, what becomes of the cry for 'repatriation' to the
'homeland'?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These Eastern European,
Yiddish-speaking Jews have no historic or racial connection with Palestine, or,
for the matter, with the other Jews who existed in other countries for
thousands of years prior to the Khazar conversion.</span></div>
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best, the cry of truly Palestinian-descended Jews for a return to the
'homeland' would be highly dubious....And if the claim of Palestinian-descended
Jews is so dubious, what of the claim of Khazar-descended Jews?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Would a single Christian support their trek
back to the 'homeland' or want to oblige them by expelling the Arabs, if it
were known that these Eastern European Yiddish-speaking Jews who form the
Zionist group practically <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in toto, </i>have
neither a geographic, historic nor ethnic connection with either the Jews of
the Old Testament of the land known today as Palestine?</span></div>
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the Jewish claim to Palestine is tested as the only other remaining ground, the
religious, it may be summarily and finally replied that religiously both Christians
and Moslems also have religious roots there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The reason it is called the 'Holy Land' today is because Jesus of
Nazareth lived and died there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To
Christians He is the Son of God and Saviour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To Mohammedans He is a great prophet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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were other non-Israel infiltrations into Jewry besides the Khazars of European
Russia; among them were the black Jews of Malabar and Abyssinia, and the
Mongoloid Jews of China.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps the
most important of these infiltrations, from the standpoint of influence, is the
intrusion of Esau's descendants into Jewry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As David Davidson says in a lecture titled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Palestine:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Esau Claims
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"The
people of Jacob exist today in the English-speaking peoples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, the race of Esau survives and
persists, absorbed in that remnant of the Israelitish tribe of Judah known as
the Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The latter fact of history is
disclosed by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Encyclopedia Biblica</i>,
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"The
race of Esau were the Edomites of Old Testament history and the Idumeans of New
Testament times, and included the marauding Sinaitic tribe of Amalek.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dominant physiognomy and aggressively
intrusive characteristics of the race were derived from the native stock of
North Syria through the 'Hittite' wives of Esau. and by subsequent
intermarriage between the Edomites and 'Hittites."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the Edomites (or Idumeans) were
absorbed into the remnant of Judah, after 130 B.C. but mainly in the dispersion
following the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., the Edom-'Hittite'
physiognomy eventually emerged as the European Jewish type of physiognomy --
falsely called 'Semitic."...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Herod
the Great was an Edomite and became the first Idumean 'King of the Jews."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As such he sought to destroy our Lord at
birth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At that time the Idumeans had
been comprised in the Jewish state and had been Jews in religion for over a
century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They dominated the whole of
Jewish life and our Lord, in revealing the nature of the Herodian or Idumean
Domination, refers to the 'leaven of Herod' as the antithesis of the 'leaven of
the Kingdom of God.'<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the 'Revelation
of Jesus Christ' (Rev. 1:1) the effect of the intrusion is referred to as 'the
blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue
of Satan' (Rev. 2:9).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"The
Idumean intrusion has brought a blight upon true Jewry and has placed an
undeserved stigma upon the name Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Behind the mask of Idumean physiognomy neither Jew nor Christian can
discern what is true and what is false in Jewry, except by their respective
works....Josephus, in describing the conditions internal to the Roman siege of
Jerusalem, reveals how the race of Esau (as the Idumeans) were mainly
instrumental in inflaming the hatreds of the three internal factions of disintegration,
which three factions have their counterparts in the three politico-economic
world factions today."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>From
such reliable evidence we may safely conclude that Zionists, for the most part,
are a nondescript mixture of races masquerading as Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They did not originate in the tribe of Judah
and their ancestors did not belong to the Kingdom of Judah which disintegrated
at the time of the Babylonian captivity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Zionists are denounced as impostors by such prominent orthodox Jews as
Benjamin H. Freedman and Dr. I M. Rabinowitch, who see in political Zionism a
false, alien element working toward the destruction of everything stable,
decent and spiritual in human society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is this contradictory element in Jewish history which is so confusing
to Christians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>C. F. Parker calls attention
to it in a recent article in which, after referring to modern Idumean-Hittites
and their claim to be the seed of Israel, he says:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"It
is remarkable that pogroms against the Jews have constituted seeming
contradictions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the first Jesuits
were Jews, as indicated, why should they persecute their own people?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If, however, they were Edomites masquerading
as Jews, their desire to eliminate Judah is easily understood....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Central
Europe has been a prolific source of contradictory elements in Jewry, and this
can only be explained through a duality within that people:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the false seeking to destroy that cherished
by the other.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Communism, the product of
Marx, and allied teachings, promulgated and supported by numbers of Jews, are
odious to the Orthodox....The two elements are quite incompatible; and it is
only with the pious, religious element of Jewry that Christians have anything
in common in their acceptance of the Old Testament, and their belief in a
Divine, as distinct from a Herodian, Messiah."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
National Message, London, England, </i>January 3, 1948.)</span></div>
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therefore, have no claim -- scriptural or otherwise -- to the land of
Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Arabs have no ownership in
the land, but they do hold a scriptural right to live there in peace, as we
have seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even orthodox Jews, who stem
from Judah hold no scriptural mandate over Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Far from being the whole of Israel, they are
only a small portion of the one tribe of Judah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Furthermore, the birthright -- carrying with it the Israel-Saxon name
and mandate over the covenant land -- did not go to Judah, but to Joseph's two
sons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Therefore, by Divine edict, mandatory
powers over the Holy Land belong solely to the "nation and company of
nations" of Ephraim and Manasseh or, in other words, to Great Britain and
the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And there are no
Arabs, Zionist Jews, or Judah Jews in the House of Joseph.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The tragedy
now arising out of the situation lies in the fact that Christians in Britain
and America do not realize that the mandate belongs to them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We cannot escape divinely-imposed
responsibility, however, nor will we escape the tribulation which is sure to
follow willful disobedience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
accept erroneous ideas with alacrity because we do not take the time or trouble
to find out the truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A case in point
is the Balfour Declaration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of our
people have been convinced by Zionists, and even by Christian leaders, that its
terms have been violated by the British Government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But have they read it to find out?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyone who investigates for himself will know
that the Archbishop of York declared the truth when he said:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"No
pledge was ever given by the British government that Palestine should be handed
over to the Jews.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pledge of the
Balfour Declaration was that within in there should be established a national
home for the Jewish people without prejudice to the civil and religious rights
of existing non-Jewish communities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
promise has been faithfully observed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Palestine
today is the home of over 600,000 Jews....Without the good will and the active
protection of the British government, it would have been impossible for the
Jews to have made this home....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"When
I visited our Forces in Palestine last March (1946), the country was like an
armed camp in which everyone was incessantly on the alert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By unscrupulous and violent propaganda many
of the Jews, especially the younger men and women, have been worked up to such
a condition of hysterical fanaticism that they have been brought to believe
that Great Britain was responsible for the awful sufferings of their race in
Europe."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(From report of the
Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry, in York Diocesan Leaflet.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #365f91; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">*In 1948 Israel
became a state!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fig Tree?</span></i></b></span></div>
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manner many high government officials have been sold on the partition plan for
Palestine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps we should say that
some of them are not convinced that the plan is necessary, fair or feasible,
but they are consenting to it under the pressure of political expediency.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will they be tricked and pushed into sending
U. S. troops to Palestine?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If not, they
will be squarely up against the alternative of leaving the gate wide open for
Russia to take over the Middle East and its vast resources when Britain
withdraws from that area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Either course
threatens disastrous results.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Informed
people in all nations wait with apprehension to see the outcome of United
States participation in the Palestine debacle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is truly a colossal blunder on the part of irresponsible politicians
which promises nothing but dire consequences for the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>"Blind,
ignorant, dumb, asleep" -- so the Prophet described the national and
spiritual leaders of latter-day Israel<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>nations!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If United States
government officials had been standing by Britain in upholding our share of
responsibility in the Palestine mandate, instead of bargaining for Jewish
votes, the present crisis could have been averted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If the Church leaders had been teaching this
generation the truth about God's plans for modern Israel, we would have
enlightened and courageous statesmen guiding the nations toward peace instead
of war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We now
begin to see why it is so important for Christian-Israel nations to know their
origin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No wonder God commanded us to
examine our racial beginning in Abraham and Sarah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today our very existence as free peoples is
jeopardized by wholesale ignorance on this vital subject.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If Anglo-Saxons should suddenly come to a
realization of their Israel-Joseph origin, the vehement flame of Zionism would
be extinguished swiftly by a mighty wave of righteous indignation.</span></div>
Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-13374244348544477352011-04-23T13:58:00.000-07:002011-04-23T14:50:24.521-07:00Joy and Peace in His Truth<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Be pleasing to God. Live His Way. Find Peace and Joy in Him. </span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />His Way is found in His Word, line by line, chapter by chapter. Jesus is the Living Word.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>John 1:14 KJV</strong> <em>And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.</em></span><br /><br />Jesus is the ONLY One who was born through woman, through the bag of waters AND lived perfectly in service to God. He showed us the Way, He IS the Way. We all may try our best, but we fall short of His perfect obedience and love. He is the only one who could offer the perfect love sacrifice of The Lamb, whose Precious Blood covers the doorposts of our minds and forces evil to Passover us.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Exodus 12:5-14 KJV</strong> <em>5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. 7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. 10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. 11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded , your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. 13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. 14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.</em></span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Hebrews 10:1-14 KJV</strong> </span><em><span style="color:#000099;">1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come , and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect . 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered ? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. 4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith , Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure . 7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. 11 And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: 12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; 13 From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool . 14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.</span></em><br /><em><br /></em>Jesus is God in the flesh, Immanuel=God with us.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Isaiah 7:14 KJV</strong> <em>Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel</em> <strong>Matthew 1:23 KJV</strong> <em>Behold , a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.</em></span> (Emmanuel is Immanuel, just in Greek instead of Hebrew language), <span style="color:#000099;"><strong>John 14:9 KJV</strong> </span><em><span style="color:#000099;">Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father</span>?</em><br /><br />He served His people while in the flesh, and opened up salvation to 'whosoever believeth in Him' <span style="color:#000099;"><strong>John 3:14-17 KJV</strong> <em>14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up : 15 That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish , but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved.</em> </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><br /></span>Salvation is now available to the House of Israel and all the nations to any individual who 'will believeth in Him' no matter under what man made government they may be living in <span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Matthew 27:51 KJV</strong> <em>And, behold , the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake , and the rocks rent</em> <strong>Mark 15:38 KJV</strong> <em>And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom</em> <strong>Luke 23:45 KJV</strong> <em>And the sun was darkened , and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst</em> </span><br /></span><span style="color:#000099;"><br /></span>With His ultimate service of laying down His flesh life to those who were so confused and riled up, they killed the Messiah. Jesus The Christ, did not have to lay down His life. He had power to take it up at any time, but He served the will of God by serving the will of the people, to His flesh death. In that sacrifice He rent the veil of the Holies of Holies and 'whosoever believeth in Him' is allowed direct access to our Father through prayer and repentance in Jesus' Name, our Intercessor against the accuser of this world.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Revelation 12:10 KJV</strong> <em>And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down , which accused them before our God day and night</em>.</span><br /><br />Likewise, He earned the role of our King of kings and Lord of lords in our hearts. He did not have to. As our Creator, He could've made us all robots who automatically love Him.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Hebrews 12:1-18 KJV</strong> <em>1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard , lest at any time we should let them slip . 2 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward; 3 How shall we escape , if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; 4 God also bearing them witness , both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? 5 For unto the angels hath he not put in subjection the world to come , whereof we speak . 6 But one in a certain place testified , saying , What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? 7 Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: 8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he put all in subjection under him, he left nothing that is not put under him. But now we see not yet all things put under him. 9 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man. 10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 11 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 Saying , I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. 13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me. 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is , the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. 17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. 18 For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted , he is able to succour them that are tempted</em> </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><br /></span>But, He did not make us like robots without feelings and emotions. We learn, grow, mature, change all the time in what challenges we are going through or overcoming, in what we are learning. He showed us a challenge on how to have joy in our lives with Him when we choose to try to mature in His Way.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>John 15:11 KJV</strong> <em>These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full He wants us to have JOY.</em> <strong>Jeremiah 33:9 KJV</strong> <em>And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it </em></span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Isaiah 9:1-8 KJV <em>1 Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations. 2 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined. 3 Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when they divide the spoil. 4 For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian. 5 For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire. 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon His shoulder: and His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of His government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon His kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. 8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.</em></span><br /><br />The only Way to do that is to live His Way, with Him as our King of kings, Lord of lords. Only His Word is infallible and will help us navigate and slice away lies from Truth that truly feeds the soul.<br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>2 Timothy 3:16 KJV</strong> <em>All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:</em></span><br /><br />Heaven is His throne, the earth is His footstool.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Isaiah 66:1 KJV</strong> <em>Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool : where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?</em> <strong></strong></span><br /><strong><span style="color:#000099;"></span></strong><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Acts 7:49 KJV</strong> <em>Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool : what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest? Mark 14:58 KJV We heard him say , I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.</em></span><br /><br />There are different levels to that. He is King of kings, Lord of lords, so He rules in heaven and in earth over ALL.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Ezekiel 18:1-4 KJV</strong> <em>1 The word of the LORD came unto me again, saying , 2 What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying , The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge ? 3 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. 4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth , it shall die</em></span><br /><br />He deserves and earned our respect and love and the position of our King. He did not have to and could have subjugated us all. But, He loves us and wanted our love to be genuine. He did not have to earn our respect as the very best possible King, but He did so through ultimate humility of service.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Isaiah 53:1-12 KJV</strong> <em>1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed ? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised , and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken , smitten of God, and afflicted . 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed . 6 All we like sheep have gone astray ; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed , and he was afflicted , yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb , so he openeth not his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief : when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors</em> </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><br /></span>At the one level, Jesus gave <em>us</em> power over all the power of the enemy in His Name in our own personal lives when we have faith in Him and His promises and through His Name.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Luke 10:19 KJV</strong> <em>Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you</em></span><br /><br />He always shows us the Way through. God and you make a majority, no matter what struggles you are facing.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV</strong> <em>There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able ; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.</em></span><br /><br />He wants to help us through our struggles, but He is a gentleman and will not interfere unless we ask and seek Him to be in our lives and we work to meet His very reasonable qualifications of us asking and repenting/trying to learn to do better to be pleasing to Him when we fall short. And when we fall short as we learn and grow, when we repent, He forgives and wipes clean. We may remember so we can learn from it, but He does not want to hear about it ever again. To bring sins forgiven up again is to doubt Him. Faith in Him and His promises require that when He says 'clean', He means it.<br /><br />He loves us that much that He came through in the flesh to teach us this and to show us that He does not ask us to do anything that He had not done, Himself. He lived in the flesh in perfect humble service to all of us to the point He laid down His life when in our immaturity we were riled up, emotional and wanted Him gone, The Light that showed us our weaknesses which is painful.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>John 3:19-21 KJV</strong> </span><em><span style="color:#000099;">And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. </span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#000099;"><br /></span></em>The Light of our lives, the Love of our lives, sees our weaknesses and when we realize that we are not perfect and we fall short in front of the One we love most and most want to please, that is a very painful moment, but He laid down His life to show us that He will not mock or be cruel to us in our imperfect love for Him.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Luke 23:34 KJV</strong> <em><strong>Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do</strong>. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots</em></span><br /><br />Even when we deserved it and when the cruelest intentions of murdering His flesh came against Him, as He was on the cross, He only taught and forgave. He is long-suffering and wills that ALL come to repentance.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>2 Peter 3:9 KJV</strong> <em>The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish , but that all should come to repentance.</em><br /></span><br />The cross was the ultimate lesson that when He or His disciples (disciplined in study in His Word and Way) are teaching they are to turn the other cheek as He taught "the disciples".<br /><br /><strong>Matthew 5: 1 KJV</strong> <em>And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: 2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying...</em> Matthew 5:39 KJV 39 <em>But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also</em><br /><br />He taught this to those who would be teaching His Word and Way and does not include self defense from attacks that come outside of teaching. In other words, if a person becomes riled up against you because of teaching His Word and you caused them to be riled up, then turn the other cheek so they are not offended so much they turn from God, let them be offended with you so they may still investigate God's promises when they calm down.<br /><br />If someone means you harm in evil intent and it was not caused by you teaching God's Word, then self protection is required by God in order to preserve the disciples/teachers so they can continue to teach.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>1 Timothy 5:7-8 KJV</strong> <em>7 And these things give in charge , that they may be blameless. 8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel</em> </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Luke 11:21 KJV</strong> <em>When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace.</em></span><br /><em><span style="color:#000099;"></span></em><br />The cross was also the ultimate lesson that His Word comes to pass exactly as written.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>2 Timothy 3:16 KJV</strong> <em>All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:</em></span><br /><br />As Jesus was on the cross, He was teaching Psalm 22. The events written by King David, a thousand years before, with Divine guidance, were coming to pass, exactly as prophesied a thousand years before, right down to the Roman soldiers gambling for his robe. What profit would the Roman soldiers have in following prophesy? It was by Divine guidance that all Scripture was fulfilled as written, even through those who most likely did not know Scripture.<br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Psalm 22:18 KJV</strong> <em>They part my garments among them, And cast lots upon my vesture.</em><br /><strong>Matthew 27:35 KJV</strong> <em>And they crucified him, and parted his garments, casting lots: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture did they cast lots.</em><br /><strong>Matthew 27:46 KJV</strong> <em>And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying , Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Mark 15:34 KJV And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying , Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?</em> </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><br /></span>(note: Jesus never called God, 'God', He always called Him 'Father' as an example to us <span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Matthew 6:6-13 KJV</strong> <em>But thou, when thou prayest , enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly . 7 But when ye pray , use not vain repetitions , as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. 9 After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. 10 Thy kingdom come . Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread. 12 And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen</em></span> )<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Psalm 22:1 KJV</strong> </span><em><span style="color:#000099;">My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? </span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#000099;"></span></em><em><span style="color:#000099;"><br /></span></em>Then at the end of teaching Psalm 22, He concluded with "It is finished"<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>John 19:30 KJV</strong> <em>When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said , It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.</em></span><br /><br />The word "finished" in the original language of Greek of the New Testament before translation into English is 'teleo' # 5055 in the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Greek Dictionary, which means 'done'. It is also the word 'accomplished' in <span style="color:#000099;"><strong>John 19:28 KJV</strong> <em>After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now <strong>accomplished</strong>, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst</em></span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Psalm 22:31 KJV</strong> <em>They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this</em></span><br /><br />Psalm 22 ends with the Hebrew word for 'done' which is 'asah'. #6213 in the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Hebrew Dictionary.<br /><br />"It is finished" = "He hath done this".<br /><br />Do not be confused, though, our Father is not impotent against evil and there is a time appointed where He will pour out His wrath on those hard heads that will not hear His Word, continue to rebel and do evil. As our King, He protects His own from the cruelty our immaturity and/or choices inflict on ourselves and each other. There IS a point, as written, where He has given the lessons and we either learned or we have not. The choice is ours.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Hebrews 2:3 KJV</strong> </span><em><span style="color:#000099;">How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; </span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#000099;"><br /></span></em>If we have learned to personally/individually train our minds and become self disciplined in His Love, in His full Word, His Way, with the end goal of being able to fully experience the range of emotions that we were naturally born with in discipline and the safety of His love, then we have the JOY of Him.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>John 14:22-23 KJV</strong> <em>Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, if a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.</em></span><br /><br />If we have not bothered to learn and are like wild toddlers flailing around at every whim and emotion, hurting ourselves and hurting others through our lack of maturity, training, and discipline in His Word, He HAS to rein us in, in His timing, in order to protect us as well as those around us. Sometimes spanking us and showing us through what we understand, (even when we are out of control like a toddler), 'strength', that we are NOT as powerful as Him and we are NOT in control of anyone or anything but ourselves, but He is above all.<br /><br /><strong>J<span style="color:#000099;">ohn 19:11 KJV</span></strong><span style="color:#000099;"> <em>Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.</em></span><br /><br />Even that tough love discipline is in Love, teaching us our boundaries. As any parent, we can understand how He probably wishes to never have to discipline us and it most likely hurts Him more than us to need to discipline us which is why He went to such extremes to show us His love and willingness to forgive with such a simple request that we think about it and repent and try to learn to be better. 7 x 70 times He will forgive, as long as we repent.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Matthew 18:21-22 KJV</strong> <em>Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? 22 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but, Until seventy times seven</em>.</span><br /><br />But if in our toddler stubbornness, we refuse to submit to His Way or to even try, He will discipline. We have no power against anyone who has faith in Him and calls on Him for protection unless it is given from Him.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>John 19:11 KJV</strong> <em>Jesus answered, Thou couldest have no power at all against me, except it were given thee from above: therefore he that delivered me unto thee hath the greater sin.</em></span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Luke 10:19 KJV</strong> <em>Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.</em><br /></span><br />But for those who do not call on Him or trust in His Name, His Word, His promises, we can hurt each other, but even allowing that, He is allowing discipline, so hopefully we WILL turn to Him and appreciate His protection over us thank Him and ask Him for it and mature and become people others want to be around.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV</strong> <em>There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.</em><br /></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Luke 17:19-21</strong> <strong>KJV</strong> </span><em><span style="color:#000099;">19 And he said unto him, Arise , go thy way : thy faith hath made thee whole . 20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come , he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! <strong>for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you</strong>.</span><br /></em><br />WE are to be actively involved over what we can control, which is ourselves and our reactions to events around us and our choices. WE choose to study and be disciplined in Him...or not. WE choose to personally investigate His promises and His Word...or not. What we lose when we choose to not do these things, is Him now and in the eternity and eternity with all our friends and family that have decided to have faith in Him, in His promises, in His Word and do actively work to be pleasing to Him and have Him in their lives. That is a seriously harsh and lonely decision for a soul to make.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>2 Corinthians 7:10 KJV</strong> <em>For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.</em> </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><br /></span>When we choose Him, we are never alone, He is always with us and it is a joy to know that His love is fully available to all we love, too.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Hebrews 13:5 KJV</strong> <em>Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.</em></span><br /><br />One sign of maturity that God appreciates is when we trust Him enough to thank Him for keeping us in line, knowing He only allows what we need.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Hebrews 11:6 KJV</strong> <em>But without faith, it is impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.</em></span><br /><br />When we become 'abel'/able, or mature, our emotions can still be enflamed and jealousies over loved ones or God, can temporarily override our sensibilities, but as long as we stay strong in Him and His promises, repenting when we go astray, asking for His guidance, He bridges that gap in ourselves and carries us across. The temptations pass over us, (<strong><span style="color:#000099;">1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV</span></strong>) though our minds pass out in such strong emotions and passions. HIS Passion, covers us as evil passes over us where our passions become too much for us to handle on our own.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>James 5:17 KJV</strong> </span><em><span style="color:#000099;">Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.</span> </em><br /><em><br /></em>Cain's offering was not pleasing to God, Cain did not work to be pleasing to God or trust in Him, so when his emotions of jealousy were riled up, he tried to destroy his brother Abel by murdering him.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Genesis 4:1-8 KJV</strong> <em>1 And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived , and bare Cain, and said , I have gotten a man from the LORD. 2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. 4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: 5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect . And Cain was very wroth , and his countenance fell . 6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth ? and why is thy countenance fallen ? 7 If thou doest well , shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well , sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him. 8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him</em> </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><br /></span>As though removing what he falsely believed caused those emotions (Abel) would fix the hurtful feelings that he was dealing with of his work being rejected. Those feelings that hurt us are feelings of disappointing God and those we love. Removing those we love, trying to remove God, does not fix those feelings. They stick with us no matter where we go and can be a heavy burden, until we repent to God in Jesus' Name and open our hearts and minds to learn and mature.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Isaiah 1:18 KJV</strong> <em>Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.</em> </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><br /></span>How can you reason with God if you don't know what His promises are? There is only one Way through and that's His Way, in decisions we make for ourselves to self-discipline in His Word and Way. When we choose Him, He will guide us in His Way to the Light, to forgiveness, to relief in His love and even to JOY in learning how to mature to the point we can experience the full range of our God given emotions with Him and each other-safely in His love. That's not safe without discipline, without His love, as Cain's actions show. IF we choose to go it alone without God, we do not have His protection and this world can be very cruel.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>2 Corinthians 7:10 KJV</strong> <em>For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.</em></span><br /><br />We can actually be very cruel to ourselves, too, by choosing this path.<br /><br />Abel is still alive. He is with God having died in the flesh while working to be pleasing to God and through no fault of his own his flesh life was taken. Cain is still alive. When his flesh died and he returned to God, <span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Ecclesiastes 12:6-7 KJV</strong> <em>6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed , or the golden bowl be broken , or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. 7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it</em></span>, he had committed a sin that was not forgive-able in the flesh, <span style="color:#000099;"><strong>1 John 3:15 KJV</strong> <em>15 Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him,</em></span> he did not get to be with God and is on the other side of the gulf in heaven. <span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Luke 16:19-31 KJV</strong> <em>19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores , 21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 And it came to pass , that the beggar died , and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died , and was buried ; 23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried and said , Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 25 But Abraham said , Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted , and thou art tormented . 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed : so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot ; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. 27 Then he said , I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house: 28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. 30 And he said , Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent . 31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded , though one rose from the dead</em> </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><br /></span>Cain is awaiting, as we all are, the millennium of teaching and the final Judgment Day <span style="color:#000099;"><strong>Revelation 20:11-15 KJV</strong> </span><em><span style="color:#000099;">11 And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away ; and there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened : and another book was opened , which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. 13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14 And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. </span></em><br /><em><span style="color:#000099;"><br /></span></em>Jesus went to the ones on the other side of the gulf and taught those there.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>1 Peter 3:11-22 KJV</strong> <em>11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it. 12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. 13 And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? 14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled ; 15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: 16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ. 17 For it is better, if the will of God be so , that ye suffer for well doing , than for evil doing . 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: <strong>19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison</strong>; 20 Which sometime were disobedient , when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing , wherein few, that is , eight souls were saved by water. 21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ: 22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.</em></span><br /><br />One can hope that Cain has realized being without God or those who love God and His Way is a much worse situation than working to be pleasing. And he has truly repented and is working to mature and will be acceptable in God's Kingdom and find JOY there with loved God and loved ones. One thing is for sure, God will ultimately judge fates of each soul in His timing. It is written.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>1 Thessalonians 5:9 KJV</strong> <em>9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,</em></span><br /><br />That choice is ours to investigate, reason with, study His Word or not.<br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>2 Peter 1:7 KJV</strong> <em>For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind</em>.</span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><br /><strong>John 3:6 KJV</strong> <em>That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.</em> </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>John 8:31-32 KJV</strong> <em>31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free </em></span><br /><em><br /></em><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>John 13:38 KJV</strong> <em>38 Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake? Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice</em> </span><br /><br /><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>John 14:6 KJV</strong> <em>Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me. </em></span><br /><em><br /></em><span style="color:#000099;"><strong>John 14:1-4 KJV</strong> <em>1 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. 2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know</em> </span>Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-49937787882890627542011-03-03T10:55:00.001-08:002011-03-03T10:55:05.217-08:00Bambi for breakfast<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosethistleartworks/5495064568/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5295/5495064568_f8ebc827bb_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosethistleartworks/5495064568/">Bambi for breakfast</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/rosethistleartworks/">RoseThistleArtworks</a></span><br clear="all" /><p>Well, this little guy was waiting for me this morning when I went out to feed the farm animals. I think he's the 6 point that dropped his antlers here a while back. It looks like the winter and rut season's been rough on him. It's really cool to be able to see a wild creature like that so close. His little hooves are so black and shiny and his eyes are so sweet.</p>Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-30108274299119779512011-02-28T22:48:00.001-08:002011-02-28T22:48:23.948-08:00Wild Deer for breakfast<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosethistleartworks/5488304258/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5139/5488304258_7a670362c3_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosethistleartworks/5488304258/">Wild Deer for breakfast</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/rosethistleartworks/">RoseThistleArtworks</a></span><br clear="all" /><p>Geoff went to feed the llamas the other morning and this wild deer stuck around. Her herd ran over the hill. But, she decided she wanted some grain, too. So she stayed around and ate right out of the bucket in his hands. Animals trust Geoff in an amazing way I don't think I've ever seen before</p>Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-41866300628829301592010-12-25T02:03:00.000-08:002010-12-25T03:31:09.996-08:00Christmas Jesus the Christ, Immanuel "God with us"Merry Christmas!<br /><br />This is the day Christians celebrate when Jesus the Christ first dwelt "with us" in the flesh. Jesus' birth and conception IS written in the Bible.<br /><br />The Old Testament foretold of this time that we celebrate.<br /><br /><strong>Isaiah 7:14</strong> (King James Version) <em>Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel.</em><br /><br />And the New Testament recalls this prophecy in Matthew 1<br /><br /><strong>Matthew 1:23</strong> (King James Version) <em>Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.</em><br /><br />The exact date of Jesus' conception and birth is determined with a bit of study in His Word.<br /><br /><strong>Luke 1</strong> (King James Version)<strong>1</strong> Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us, <strong>2</strong> Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word; <strong>3</strong> It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, (<em>translated this name means most beloved of God</em>), <strong>4</strong> <strong>That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.</strong> <br /><br /><strong>5</strong> There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the <strong>course of Abia</strong>: (<em>this course is a set week of duty in the Temple, 1 Chronicles 24:10, it was June 13-June 19</em>) and <em>his wife was of the daughters of Aaron</em>, and her name was Elisabeth. <strong>6</strong> And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. <strong>7</strong> And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.<br /><br /><strong> 8</strong> And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course, <strong>9</strong> According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. <strong>10</strong> And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense. <strong>11</strong> And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. <strong>12</strong> And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him. <strong>13</strong> But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. <strong>14</strong> And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth. <strong>15</strong> For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. <strong>16</strong> And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. <strong>17</strong> And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias(<em>Elias in Greek, Elijah in Hebrew</em>), to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord. <strong>18</strong> And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years . <strong>19</strong> And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, (<em>Gabriel translated means, man of God)</em>, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings. <strong>20</strong> And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season. <strong>21</strong> And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple. <strong>22</strong> And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless. <br /><br /><strong>23</strong> And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house. (<em>June 19th was the weekly sabbath and no traveling allowed, so he would have left for home at the earliest June 20th. He was an old man stricken in years, at least two-four days travel to get back to his home. That would put conception of John at June 24th</em>) <strong>24</strong> And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying , <strong>25</strong> Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men. <br /><br /><strong>26</strong> And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, (<em>John was now in the womb six months and this date is December 25th</em>)<strong>27</strong> To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary. <strong>28</strong> And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. <strong>29</strong> And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. <strong>30</strong> And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. <strong>31</strong> And, behold , thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a Son, and shalt call His name JESUS. <strong>32</strong> He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of his father David: <strong>33</strong> And He shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of His kingdom there shall be no end. (Hebrews 5:5 and Hebrews 5:6) <strong>34</strong> Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? (<em>note that she did not doubt this was to happen, as Zacharias had. She wondered how</em>) <strong>35</strong> And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God. <strong>36</strong> And, behold, thy <strong>cousin Elisabeth</strong>, (<em>note that Gabriel is saying Elisabeth is Mary's cousin. Elisabeth was of the daughters of Aaron as in Luke 1:5. That means that Mary's mother, Elisabeth's sister was Levitical and in Luke 3, Mary's lineage shows her father was of Judah, through David's son, Nathan. The words 'as was supposed' mean 'by law' like we say 'in law' today to describe married into family</em>), she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren. <strong>37</strong> <strong>For with God nothing shall be impossible</strong>. <strong>38</strong> And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her. <br /><br /><strong>39</strong> And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country <strong>with haste</strong>, into a city of Juda; <strong>40</strong> And entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. <strong>41</strong> And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; (<em>the baby John, six months in the womb, recognized Jesus in the womb of Mary</em>) and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost: <strong>42</strong> And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. <strong>43</strong> And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? <strong>44</strong> For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, <strong>the babe leaped in my womb for joy</strong>. <strong>45</strong> And blessed is she that believed: for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord. <strong>46</strong> And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, <strong>47</strong> And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. <strong>48</strong> For He hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. <strong>49</strong> For He that is mighty hath done to me great things; and holy is His name. <strong>50</strong> And His mercy is on them that fear (<em>revere or respect</em>) Him from generation to generation. <strong>51</strong> He hath shewed strength with his arm; He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. <strong>52</strong> He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree. <strong>53</strong> He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away. <strong>54</strong> He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of His mercy; <strong>55</strong> As He spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever. <br /><br /><strong>56</strong> And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house. <strong>57</strong> Now Elisabeth's full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son. <strong>58</strong> And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her. <strong>59</strong> And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father. <strong>60</strong> And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John. <strong>61</strong> And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name. <strong>62</strong> And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called. <strong>63</strong> And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marvelled all. <strong>64</strong> And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake, and praised God.<strong> 65</strong> And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judaea. <strong>66</strong> And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with him. <strong>67</strong> And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying, <strong>68</strong> Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for He hath visited and redeemed His people,<strong> 69</strong> And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David; <strong>70</strong> As He spake by the mouth of His holy prophets, which have been since the world began: <strong>71</strong> That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us; <strong>72</strong> To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember His holy covenant; <strong>73</strong> The oath which he sware to our father Abraham, <strong>74</strong> That He would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve Him without fear, <strong>75</strong> In holiness and righteousness before Him, all the days of our life. <strong>76</strong> And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways; <strong>77</strong> To give knowledge of salvation unto His people by the remission of their sins, <strong>78</strong> Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us, <strong>79</strong> To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace. <strong>80</strong> And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.<br /><br />Six months later, September 29th, JESUS was born at the beginning of the Feast of Tabernacles and circumcised on the 8th day. The shepherds were with their flocks, working in the fields, when our Saviour was born.<br /><br />Christmas is a very special time of year when our Lord and Saviour first dwelt with man, conceived this day in the womb of Mary. <br /><br />A precious gift of great love offered in freedom for each soul to choose from God to the world. <br /><br /><strong>Ezekiel 18:23</strong> (King James Version) <em>Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?</em><br /><br /><strong>2 Peter 3:9</strong> (King James Version) <em>The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish , but that all should come to repentance.</em> <br /><br /><strong>John 3:15</strong> That whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. <strong>16</strong> For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. <strong>17</strong> For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. <strong>18</strong> He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the Name of the only begotten Son of God. <strong>19</strong> And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. <strong>20</strong> For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. <strong>21</strong> But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. <br /><br /><strong>John 15:11</strong> (King James Version) <em>These things have I spoken unto you, that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.</em><br /><br /><br />Merry Christmas!Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-66340822509679326802010-08-28T04:53:00.000-07:002010-08-28T05:02:20.569-07:00What is Judeo-Christian? How does that align with John 14:6?The following is an article written by CR Dickey sometime between 1938 and 1967 - Article from Biblical Treasures (Volume I) – C. R. Dickey. For more information on her from the editors of Biblical Treasures (Volume I), refer to the bottom of this post.<br /><br />The question asked is "what is Judeo-Christian" as so many site America's founding as and how is that so in light of John 14:6?<br /><br /><strong>THE ENTANGLING ALLIANCE OF JEWS AND CHRISTIANS</strong><br /><br /> One of the strangest and most inexplicable movements in approximately two thousand years of Christian history is developing rapidly and almost imperceptibly in our midst at this time. Scan the church notes and news items of lectures in any large daily newspaper for abundant evidence of the reality and growth of an amazing confederacy of Jews and Christians. Jewish Rabbis are frequent speakers in Christian pulpits. The National Conference of Christians and Jews has become a going concern which influences the policy for the major portion of American Protestantism.<br /><br /> Unthinking church laymen accept this situation without even feeling the need of a shock absorber. To them it seems a friendly gesture based upon brotherly love and mutual goodwill. Christian ministers and laymen sit at the feet of Rabbis today rejoicing that they are not as the narrow-minded publicans and sinners. They feel virtuous and proud because of what they term their liberality and tolerance. If an earnest Christian, who cares more for discovering Divine truth than for the tradition of men, ventures to point out the incongruities of such fellowship he is pounced upon with charges of religious bigotry and racial prejudice.<br /><br /> It is not necessary to beat a retreat in the face of such charges if one can be sure that his position is supported by the teachings of the Scriptures. Truth may be “crushed to earth” for a time, but it is sure to “rise again” as inevitably as the handwriting on the wall by the finger of God. In any discussion of this subject there is only one important thing to consider and that is the message of the Bible. What does the Christ of Christianity have to say about this problem? What counsel regarding this matter did the Lord’s chief ambassadors leave for our edification?<br /><br /> Before attempting to answer these questions, let it be understood throughout this discussion that the writer is voicing no personal prejudice nor dislike of the Jewish people. Neither is it stated or implied that all Jews approve of the motives and methods of certain leaders among Jewry whose activities, if not curbed, will bring both Judaism and Christianity into further disrepute among men and into a greater measure of Divine judgment. Let us keep in mind also that leaders of Protestantism who disregard the counsel and warnings of our Lord are equally guilty in making alliances detrimental to His church. As these Protestant officials do not truly represent the main body of Christian believers, so do we recognize that officials of Jewry may fail to represent the majority of their people. While our Lord denounced the crafty and designing officials, He had compassion on the multitude. His example inspires the intent of this discussion.<br /><br /> The Apostle Paul, master interpreter of the Gospel, writing to the Galatian Christians, sounded a warning that could not have been more timely for the day in which it was written than it is for our generation:<br /><br /> <strong>”Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”</strong> (Gal. 5:1.)<br /><br /> Now what was this “yoke of bondage?” It was the saddling of Judaism to the Christian church. Everywhere Paul carried the Gospel of Christ he was followed by Jewish enemies who attempted to control and confuse the Christians. His entire Galatian letter is a powerful dissertation and warning against the entangling alliances of Jews and Christians.<br /><br /> That Jewish leaders are making friendly overtures to Christian churches is evident throughout the country. They are subtly identifying themselves with Christians from the pulpit, on the lecture platform and in the press. A prominent Jewish writer and lecturer is quoted by a reporter as saying in a lecture recently, “Between Christians who are Christians and Jews who are Jews, there can be no differences; we want the same things.”<br /><br /> A Rabbi, claiming to be a pastor of the first American Hebrew-Christian Synagogue, speaking in a church, made the following statements which are quoted at random from notes made at the time: “We have combined Judaism and Christianity….The Jews have their sects, Pharisees, Sadducees, Ashkenazim, Sephardim, etc., today the same as in Jesus’ day….The Rabbis have changed the Old Testament….I lived my whole life without the Bible….The Rabbis consider the Talmudic law more important than the Bible. They use the Torah and Talmud instead of the Bible. The background of the New Testament is Talmudic teaching.”<br /><br /> It was a strange sight to behold in a staid old church, but the Rabbi made a brotherly love plea, then took up a collection and guileless Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists gave contributions to carry on the spurious work of combining Judaism and Christianity.<br /><br /> Let us now compare a few statements from the Lord Jesus on this subject: “Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Saducees. Beware of the scribes.” Luke, in Chapter 20, tells of the chief priests, scribes and elders coming to Jesus questioning His authority. Jesus told the parable of the wicked husbandman and concluded with these words:<br /><br /> <strong>"He shall come and destroy these husbandmen, and shall give the vineyard to others.”</strong> (Luke 20:16a.)<br /><br /> Now study the result which followed:<br /><br /> <strong>"And when they heard it, they said, God forbid. And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected. The same is become the head of the corner? Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken; but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on Him; and they feared the people for they perceived that He had spoken this parable against them. And they watched Him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of His words, that so they might deliver Him unto the power and authority of the governor.”</strong> (Luke 20:16b-20.)<br /><br /> Matthew 15 records another controversy between Jesus and the leaders of Jewry:<br /><br /> <strong>"Ye hypocrites, well did Esais [Isaiah] prophesy unto you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto Me with their mouth, and honoureth Me with their lips; but their heart is far from Me. But in vain they do worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men….Then came His disciples, and said unto Him, Knowest Thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? But He answered and said, Every plant which My heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”</strong> (Matt. 15:7-9; 12-14.)<br /><br /> From a most casual reading of the Gospels, it is evident that Jesus never identified His work with the program of organized Jewry. If in doubt about this, read carefully John 8. Among many significant statements on that occasion ponder these two statements:<br /><br /> <strong>"Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love Me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of Myself, but He sent Me….He that is of God heareth God’s words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.”</strong> (John 8:42 & 47.)<br /><br /> Paul did not identify himself and his work with Judaism after his conversion. He makes this clear in the first chapter of his letter to the Galatians:<br /><br /> <strong>“Ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it: and profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who…called me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: neither went I up to Jerusalem.”</strong> (Gal. 1:13-17.)<br /><br /> In 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16, Paul adds further evidence on this point:<br /><br /><strong> ”For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own country men, even as they have of the Jews: who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men: forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.”</strong><br /><br /> Peter almost became entangled at one time but was set on the straight and narrow path by Paul who tells us:<br /><br /> <strong>”I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.”</strong> (Gal. 2:11.)<br /><br /> Some readers may resent the placing of twentieth century Jews in the same category with first century Jews. Have they not changed in 2,000 years? And does not this classification pronounce harsh judgment upon our fellowmen? There have been changes, to be sure --- but not in unregenerate human nature. And it ought to be possible to face facts without passing judgment, harsh or otherwise. Perhaps we can get a clearer perspective by asking some other questions. Have the radiance, power and fruitfulness of those first century Christians been improved during 2,000 years of experience? On the contrary, we find ourselves struggling in the midst of our modern civilization to duplicate the courage and spiritual power of those first Christians. Then again, has sin changed or disappeared in the course of twenty centuries? Is unbelief any different now from what it was when Jesus walked among men? Have the results of rejecting Christ undergone any perceptible changes?<br /><br /> If Christ only has power on earth to forgive sins and regenerate human lives, will someone explain by what process the Jews of today, who still reject Him as Redeemer, have become essentially different from what they were in 30 A. D.?<br /><br /> One need not hesitate to affirm that the leaders of Jewry are not carrying on God’s work, regardless of how pious they may seem, because Jesus says if they were doing God’s work they would recognize Him as the promised Son of God. Do not be deceived by the complimentary things which certain Rabbis and writers are saying about Christianity. Notice that, while they are getting quite “chummy” with Jesus, the man, they are as far away as ever from the Christ who is to take the throne of David and reign over the house of Jacob forever. Matthew tells us:<br /><br /><strong> "While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, saying, What think ye of Christ?”</strong> (Matt. 22:41-42.)<br /><br /> The Jews are still silent on that question.<br /><br /> In the record of events leading up to Peter’s denial of Christ, we read:<br /><br /> <strong>”Peter followed Him afar off, even into the palace of the high priests: and he sat with the servants, and warmed himself at the fire.”</strong> (Mark 14:54.)<br /><br /> This suggests to one’s mind that the palace of the high priest was the farthest point of departure from the Lord. Evidently Peter went in at the back door to sit with the servants. The times do change men’s methods. Today the chief Rabbis are invited to take the seats of honor in the Lord’s sanctuary; though still unbelievers, they sit among the counselors and take part in directing the program of His blood-bought church.<br /><br /> In former days the controversies between Jews and Christians centered in circumcision and in the Talmudic interpretation of laws and ordinances. Modern Jews are not concerned so much about these ancient problems. The emphasis has changed. Now their interest is centered in persuading the Christians to set aside the authority of the Scriptures, substituting therefore “liberalism” --- meaning what? --- atheism and paganism camouflaged.<br /><br /> This is the snare which has most intrigued the leaders of Protestantism. Several volumes could be written about the results that have been accomplished already along this line; for example, the sowing of false doctrines through universities and seminaries into every American hamlet; the control of publicity channels; the propagation of such movements as the Fellowship of Faiths where the Son of God is reduced to the position of understudy of Buddha, Confucius, Mohammed, Indian fakirs, and Persian Bahaists.<br /><br /> A chief Rabbi, speaking recently at a Business and Professional Women’s Club dinner, stated as one of her objectives the “elimination of unfair and untrue statements about Jews in Sunday school literature” --- obviously meaning by this that certain teachings of Jesus must be barred from publication in Christian literature. The work of deleting the Scriptures is under way on a big scale; one such abbreviated Bible, published by a Jewish firm, is being widely advertised by Christian publications and its circulation further enhanced by the Book-of-The-Month-Club offering it as a gift. Attend a meeting in a Christian church which is to be addressed by a Rabbi and observe how the ministers select the hymns, the Scripture readings and the prayers to fit the tender sensitivities of the Jewish brother. All mention of Christ is painstakingly avoided in deference to the visitor. Does God laugh or weep at such strange reversion on the part of men who claim to be redeemed by the sacrifice of His Son on Calvary?<br /><br /> Strange to say the present objectives of Jewry are not new. They bear a striking resemblance to those met by Paul. Writing to Titus, Paul advised:<br /><br /> <strong>”For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.”</strong> (Titus 1:10-11.)<br /><br /> Then he cautioned Titus to warn the Cretians:<br /><br /> <strong>”Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. They profess that they know God; but in works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.”</strong> (Titus 1:13-16.)<br /><br /> The Scriptures abound in warnings against Christians forming entangling alliances with unbelievers of all kinds --- Jews and non-Jews:<br /><br /> <strong>”Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”</strong> (Col. 2:8.)<br /><br /> <strong>“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?...Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord.”</strong> (II Cor. 6:14-17.)<br /><br /> Christian leaders must either separate themselves from the evil influences of the enemies of Christ or be overcome by them. The promotion of Jewish-Christian relations on the basis of present-day trends is unfair to the Jews themselves, who will never be brought to a saving knowledge of Christ by such unscriptural methods.<br /><br /> The answer to a vital question is hanging in the balance --- Will Protestantism continue to stand fast in the liberty of Christ, or, will it become increasingly entangled in the bondage of modern Judaism?<br />===========================<br />INTRODUCTION<br /><br /> The Staff at Destiny Publishers, having read all the articles written by the late C. R. Dickey (Christina R. Dickey) found in DESTINY Magazines from July 1938 to October 1967, received such a blessing from her writings that we wanted to share the information with all who are seeking God’s wonderful truths. We are hereby publishing all her articles in two volumes, which we believe you will find most inspiring and of genuine interest and value.<br /><br /> Her knowledge of the Scriptures was unbelievable so she must have had a very close association with her Lord, as she certainly became a champion for His cause.<br /><br /> Our late beloved editor, Howard B. Rand, realized her talent as he published many of articles in booklet form.<br /><br /> The reader should take into account the time element when each article was written, which was from the late thirties to the middle sixties. We found her articles to be up to the minute as though she had written them yesterday. Her writings on various subjects are backed up with Scripture verses, as well as with quotes from reliable sources, when making a point. From her writings, the Lord surely made use of her God-given talents.<br /><br /> Although we do not have any knowledge of her background, we do know that she was a Congregational minister. Her sermons given must have been of interest and value to her congregation. We are sure her articles contained in this book will do the same.Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-62975205977861584612010-04-03T11:54:00.001-07:002013-03-27T23:28:47.536-07:00Happy PassoverToday at sundown, we celebrate Passover. This is why we celebrate. <br />
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<em>I Corinthians 5:7-8 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. </em> <br />
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Leaven is yeast which when it is mixed in the dough affects the whole lump of dough and it represents sin that Jesus came to forgive us for not being perfect so we can be a new lump. <br />
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<em>Matthew 27:50-53 Jesus, when He had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. And, behold, the veil of the Temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after His resurrection, and went into the Holy City and appeared unto many. <br /><br />John 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that My joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. <br /><br />John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.</em><br />
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<em>Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign; Behold a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.</em><br />
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Immanuel=God with us, Strong's Concordance Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary, page 89 #6005<strong>'Immanuw'el</strong>, <em>im-maw-noo-ale'</em>; with us (is) God)<br />
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Because of Jesus being the perfect sacrifice that covers our sins (that we repent for), He gave us power in His Name over all evil.<br />
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<em>Luke 10:19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.</em><br />
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And evil/the destroyer must pass over us like it did in Egypt for those who had the blood of the lamb on their door posts (Exodus 11 and 12), like we now have the blood of the Lamb of Christ on the door posts of our mind through studying and understanding His Word now. <br />
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<em>Exodus 12:23-25 For the Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He seeth the blood upon the lintel and the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you according as He hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.</em><br />
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Jesus Christ IS the Living Word. <br />
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<em>Psalms 40:7-8 Then said I, Lo, I come : in the volume of the book it is written of me,I delight to do Thy will, O my God.<br /><br />Hebrews 10:7 Then said I , Lo , I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.</em> <br />
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Another thing to check out . . . <br />
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<a href="http://www.biblestudytools.com/search/?q=Passover&rc=CON&rc2=&ps=10&s=References">http://www.biblestudytools.com/search/?q=Passover&rc=CON&rc2=&ps=10&s=References</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/translationResults.cfm?Criteria=easter&t=KJV">http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/translationResults.cfm?Criteria=easter&t=KJV</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G3957&t=KJV">http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G3957&t=KJV</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/translationResults.cfm?Criteria=passover&t=KJV">http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/translationResults.cfm?Criteria=passover&t=KJV</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G3957&t=KJV">http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=G3957&t=KJV</a><br />
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<a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/easter">http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/easter</a> <br />
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bef. 900; ME ester, OE ēastre; c. G Ostern; orig. name of a goddess and her festival; akin to east<br />
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OR go to your Strong's Exhaustive Concordance and look up the original word that the translators translated to 'easter'. You will find 'easter' on page 293 in the right hand column. Only one time is it found in the English translation/version of the Bible. The word it was translated from is #3957 in the Greek Dictionary portion, (you will find it on page 56 in the Greek portion of the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance)<strong>pascha</strong>; [comp. #6453 in Hebrew] the <strong><em>Passover</em></strong> (the meal, the day, the festival, or the special sacrifices connected with it). <br />
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Now look up the word "Passover" on pages 774-775. There are 48 times in the Hebrew that #6453 <strong>pecach</strong> in the Hebrew Dictionary was translated "Passover" and there are 28 times in the Greek that #3957 <strong>pascha</strong> was translated "Passover". Only one time in Acts 12:4 was that exact same word #3957 suddenly translated to 'easter'. Why? If an error in translating was made, which word is most likely the error? Which is the truth?<br />
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God bless you and all you love. Happy Passover.<br />
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God bless you and all you love. Happy Passover.<br />
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Love in Jesus Christ,<br />
GinaGina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-62152085763593251392010-03-05T06:55:00.000-08:002010-03-05T07:14:33.632-08:00The Waters of Shiloah - CR DickeyI am always amazed at how timely Christina's articles from 1937-1968 are. The ages old war from Genesis 3:15 continues today and the Truth still pertains. Do you think God cares about elections among free people?<br /><br /><strong>THE WATERS OF SHILOAH</strong><br /><br /> Sometimes one’s imagination is captivated by the beauty of a phrase in the Scriptures which, for the moment, appears to be out of harmony with its context. Such an appealing phrase is found in Isaiah’s eighth chapter where the prophet mentions “the waters of Shiloah that go softly.”<br /><br /> The words “Shiloah” and “Siloam” mean “a sending of waters,” as through an aqueduct. Concerning these words, Dr. John D. Davis writes in his Bible Dictionary:<br /><br /> “Siloam --- a pool at Jerusalem (John 9:7), probably identical with Shiloah, the waters of which go softly (Isa. 8:6), and the pool of Shelah, which was by the King’s garden (Neh. 3:15). Josephus says that it was situated…near a bend of the old wall beneath Ophel….The fountain is a small upper basin excavated in the rock. From the lower reservoir, the water flows in a small rill across the road and irrigates gardens in the Kidron valley.”<br /><br /> Now that we have located Shiloah, where the waters go softly, let us read the strange setting of these words in Isaiah’s prophecy, verses 5-8, Smith and Goodspeed Translation:<br /><br /><strong>“Once more the Lord spoke to me, saying,<br />‘Because this people have spurned<br />The waters of Shiloah, that flow gently,<br />And melt in fear before Rezin and the son<br />Of Remaliah,<br />Behold, the Lord is bringing up against<br />Them<br />The waters of the River, mighty and many,<br />Even the king of Assyria and all his glory;<br />And it shall rise over all its channels,<br />And shall pass over all its banks,<br />And shall sweep on through Judah, in an<br />Overwhelming flood,<br />And shall reach as high as the neck.’”</strong><br /><br /> When Isaiah’s prophecy was spoken, the forces of Syria and Israel were being swept into captivity by the triumphant Assyrian host. As one writer aptly comments on the situation:<br /><br /> “No doubt Ahaz and his court felt they could afford to laugh at Isaiah, who had steadily opposed the alliance which appeared to have been so advantageous. But the triumph of the wicked is short. The unholy success in which bad men rejoice contains within itself the seeds of peril and pain, of retribution and ruin. The ally in whom Ahaz had trusted presently became his oppressor; it was a verification in actual life of the fable of the horse that took a man for its ally. So it is today with all who prosper without God and against God. Their prosperity is, strictly speaking, unnatural, and everything that is unnatural speedily brings on disorder.”<br /><br /> The fulfillment of Isaiah’s prophecy is recorded in II Chronicles 28: 6, as follows:<br /><br /> <strong>“For Pekah the son of Remaliah slew in Judah an hundred and twenty thousand in one day, which were all valiant men; because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers.”</strong><br /><br /> When prophecy and facts are brought together the meaning of Isaiah’s symbolism becomes clear. “The waters of Shiloah that go softly” symbolize the tender solicitude of God for His people, and the help of His strong arm which is available at all times when they seek Him in faith. The waters of the overflowing River symbolize the might of Assyria’s king and the devastation which would sweep over Judah. In comparison with the mighty Euprates, the little stream of Shiloah seemed wholly inadequate and unworthy of consideration; so the people spurned the one course that could have saved them. Both Israel and Judah were swept by overwhelming floods again and again because they refused the gentle stream of heavenly love and protection. In the Song of Solomon, the potent waters of Shiloah are described as:<br /><br /> <strong>“A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.” </strong> (Song of Solomon 4:15.)<br /><br /> Mingled with rebukes and warnings to both the houses of Israel, Isaiah inserts this paragraph of finality and hope:<br /><br /> <strong>“I will bind up my testimony, and seal my teaching in the heart of my disciples. Then I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Israel; I will set my hope on him, while I and the children whom the Lord has given me remain as signs and symbols in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.”</strong> (Isa. 8:16-18, Smith & Goodspeed Trans.)<br /><br /> These words are of special significance and must have been in Isaiah’s mind when he wrote the next chapter, which contains his great prophecy concerning Christ’s birth and His future reign upon the throne of David. The familiar lines cannot be quoted too often as the day approaches for their complete fulfillment:<br /><br /> <strong>“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever.”</strong> (Isa. 9:6-7.)<br /><br /> Looking forward to the coming of Israel’s Redeemer, Zechariah wrote:<br /><br /> <strong>“In that day there shall be a fountain opened in the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.”</strong> (Zech. 13:1.)<br /><br /> That fountain was opened freely for all the world when Jesus the Christ came and walked among His people to teach them, heal them, and give His own precious blood to save them from sin and death. In conversation with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well, Jesus said to her:<br /><br /> <strong>“Anyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but anyone who drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty, but the water that I will give him will become a spring of water within him, bubbling up for eternal life.”</strong> (John 4:13-14, Smith & Goodspeed Trans.)<br /><br /> The seventh chapter of John’s Gospel reports the controversy which raged over the identity of Jesus at the feast of the tabernacles. John says that on the last day of the festival, which was the greatest, Jesus stood up and cried out:<br /><br /> <strong>“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. If anyone believes in me, streams of living water, as the Scripture says, shall flow forth from his heart.”</strong> (John 7:38, Smith & Goodspeed Trans.)<br /><br /> Waters that flow gently from this spiritual fountain are the source of cleansing and healing. Jesus said to the man who was born blind. “Go wash in the pool of Siloam” (John 9:7). We are told that the man went his way, washed as he was told to do, “and came seeing.”<br /><br /> In Isaiah 9:16, it is written, “For the <em>leaders</em> of this people cause them to err.” It has ever been so. The nations of Christendom are in their present woeful plight because our leaders, too, have refused “the waters that go softly.” Consequently, the Lord has brought upon them an overflowing tide of Communism and general subversion, as the evil fruits of rebellion against His expressed will for them. The Heavenly Father laments:<br /><br /> <strong>“O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.”</strong> (Isa. 48:18.)<br /><br /> Again He said:<br /><br /> <strong>“I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.” </strong>(Isa. 48:17.)<br /><br /> But, as Israel nations in the world today, we are refusing to drink at the fountain of living waters. Like Judah and Israel of old, we are now floundering in an overwhelming flood tide of evil, “as high as the neck,” almost submerged, but not quite. God is sovereign over all the earth. “All governments are but instruments which He uses when and as He pleases” --- a thought of comfort for the obedient, of terror for the disobedient.<br /><br /> Leaders of nations predominantly Christian in belief should beware of trifling with the basic principles of Divine law and mercy. There is a tendency among political leaders to think that, because God has especially blessed our nation in the past, we may now sin with less risk than other peoples. Such is not the case, for those who attempt to use the grace of God for their own selfish ends will meet the sorer punishment than infidels. Jeremiah says of such leaders and their followers:<br /><br /> <strong>“Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit….For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”</strong> (Jer. 2:11, 13.)<br /><br /> Many churchgoing people consider it a mark of sanctity to refrain from active participation in the affairs of local, state and national government. Yet it is a fact that the Bible bears witness against this foolish idea. <em>The Preacher’s Homiletic Commentary</em>, in <em>Isaiah</em>, Volume I, contains some statements which are timeless in their application, and certainly of vital importance to all Western nations today. We quote at some length from pages 173-174:<br /><br /> “God’s people are to be ‘a peculiar people.’ Their whole life is to be governed by Divine principles. By these principles they will be saved from the grievous practical heresy of abstention from public life. Civilized life, especially in a free community, is a partnership, and no man has a right to take all the advantages of a partnership and evade all its labors and obligations. We are bound to labor as well as pray, that God’s will may be done on earth as it is in heaven. The result of abstention on the part of Christian men from public life is the domination of bad men, and the employment of the resources of the community for evil purposes. ‘The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted’ (Psalm 12:8).<br /><br /> “If we need example in this matter, we have the example of the prophets, who were much more than preachers of a monastic piety: they were active politicians, and yet politicians of an utterly unworldly type. By these principles they will be guided and kept amid all the duties and difficulties of public life. They will be uplifted above party spirit in all its narrow and debasing forms. Theirs will be that true patriotism which consists in a steady loyalty to truth, and righteousness, and mercy. If we are to be Biblical politicians, and this is the duty of every man among us, we shall not necessarily be found on the side of the majority. How often God’s people have been called to stand in what is called a ‘miserable minority’!<br /><br /> “We shall not necessarily share in the prevalent feelings of our time, whether they be those of fear or hope. We shall know that no permanent hurt can be done to our nation while it is in pursuit of righteousness, and that no real advantage can be gained by methods that will not bear the Divine scrutiny. Our supreme desire will be, not to conciliate men, but to please God. We shall consider all public questions, and vote for, or withhold our vote from, all public men, as in His sight (Heb. 11:27). This may cause us often to cut ourselves off from our ‘party,’ but this will not trouble us. Hostility may thus be excited against us --- will be excited against us, for such ‘impracticable men’ are the abhorrence of mere politicians; but then God Himself will be to us ‘for a sanctuary.’ We shall never lose sight of the fact that the penalty of ungodliness in public life is ruin.”<br /><br /> Speaking to redeemed Israel, the covenant peoples who have confessed the lordship of Jesus Christ in the latter days, Isaiah said:<br /><br /> <strong>“They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.”</strong> (Isa. 49:10.)<br /><br /> The waters of Shiloah that go softly rise from mysterious depths, unknown to man. They issue from “that land which human eye has not seen, of which the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple.” The prophet Ezekiel saw the stream coming from under the right side of the temple (47:1); and John, in his apocalyptic vision, saw it proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb (Rev. 22:1). Hence he could say with absolute assurance:<br /><br /> <strong>“The Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.”</strong> (Rev. 7:17.)<br />--------------------<br /><br />Article from Biblical Treasures (Volume I) – C. R. Dickey<br /><br /><strong>INTRODUCTION</strong><br /><br /> The Staff at Destiny Publishers, having read all the articles written by the late C. R. Dickey (Christina R. Dickey) found in DESTINY Magazines from July 1938 to October 1967, received such a blessing from her writings that we wanted to share the information with all who are seeking God’s wonderful truths. We are hereby publishing all her articles in two volumes, which we believe you will find most inspiring and of genuine interest and value.<br /><br /> Her knowledge of the Scriptures was unbelievable so she must have had a very close association with her Lord, as she certainly became a champion for His cause.<br /><br /> Our late beloved editor, Howard B. Rand, realized her talent as he published many of articles in booklet form.<br /><br /> The reader should take into account the time element when each article was written, which was from the late thirties to the middle sixties. We found her articles to be up to the minute as though she had written them yesterday. Her writings on various subjects are backed up with Scripture verses, as well as with quotes from reliable sources, when making a point. From her writings, the Lord surely made use of her God-given talents.<br /><br /> Although we do not have any knowledge of her background, we do know that she was a Congregational minister. Her sermons given must have been of interest and value to her congregation. We are sure her articles contained in this book will do the same.<br />==============================Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-88307020389942343252010-02-06T10:37:00.000-08:002010-02-06T10:45:52.996-08:00PerceptionPERCEPTION <br /><br /><br />. . . Something To Think About. . . <br /><br /><br />Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes.. During that time approx. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule. <br /><br />4 minutes later: <br /><br /><br />The violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk. <br /><br /> 6 minutes: <br /><br /> A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again. <br /> <br />10 minutes:<br /><br />A 3-year old boy stopped but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children. Every parent, without exception, forced their children to move on quickly.<br /><br />45 minutes:<br /><br />The musician played continuously. Only 6 people stopped and listened for a short while. About 20 gave money but continued to walk at their normal pace. The man collected a total of $32.<br /><br />1 hour:<br /><br />He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.<br /><br /> No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before Joshua Bell sold out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100.<br /><br /> This is a true story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about perception, taste and people's priorities. <br /><br />The questions raised: <br /><br /> *In a common place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? <br /><br /> *Do we stop to appreciate it? <br /><br /> *Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context?<br /><br />One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this: <br /><br /><br />If we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most beautiful instruments ever made. <br /><br /><br />How many other things are we missing?<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6VnsIAKzTcQ/S223WjdeigI/AAAAAAAAAE8/Bjwy80kYrco/s1600-h/909fcd.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 290px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6VnsIAKzTcQ/S223WjdeigI/AAAAAAAAAE8/Bjwy80kYrco/s320/909fcd.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435201923409938946" /></a><br /><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hnOPu0_YWhw&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hnOPu0_YWhw&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-61060478415488258862010-02-04T00:17:00.000-08:002010-02-06T10:12:42.252-08:00Trying out a new widget<iframe style="width:170px; height:610px; border:none;overflow:hidden;" src="http://Cr8tivity.com/index.php/widget_service/get_widget/66352/3product"></iframe><br /><br />IF you would like to add this helpful etsy widget to your blog site, or find other helpful etsy tools, check out http://cr8tivity.comGina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-17059769449298770892010-01-12T11:28:00.000-08:002010-01-12T11:30:52.015-08:00GOD IS BUSYlol I received this in an email this morning. God bless America and God bless all who serve in all the branches of the armed forces of this One Nation Under God.<br /><br />GOD IS BUSY<br /><br />If you don't know GOD, don't make stupid remarks!!!!!!<br />A United States Marine was taking some college courses between assignments.<br />He had completed 20 missions in Iraq and Afghanistan . One of the courses<br />had a professor who was an avowed atheist, and a member of the ACLU.<br /><br />One day the professor shocked the class when he came in. He looked to the<br />ceiling and flatly stated, GOD if you are real then I want you to knock me<br />off this platform. I'll give you exactly 15 min.'<br />The lecture room fell silent. You could hear a pin drop. Ten minutes went<br />by and the professor proclaimed, 'Here I am GOD, I'm still waiting.'<br /><br />It got down to the last couple of minutes when the Marine got out of his<br />chair, went up to the professor, and cold-cocked him; knocking him off the<br />platform. The professor was out cold..<br /><br />The Marine went back to his se at and sat there, silently.<br /><br />The other students were shocked and stunned, and sat there looking on in<br />silence. The professor eventually came to, noticeably shaken, looked at the<br />Marine and asked, 'What in the world is the matter with you? 'Why did you<br />do that?'<br />The Marine calmly replied, 'GOD was too busy today protecting America 's<br />soldiers who are protecting your right to say stupid stuff and act like an<br />idiot. So He sent me..'<br /><br />The classroom erupted in cheers!Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-13565185262791450482010-01-09T13:34:00.000-08:002012-01-10T04:26:20.087-08:00A Prayer For Today - CR Dickey article from DESTINY Magazine 1937-1968<strong>A PRAYER FOR TODAY</strong><br /><br /> Two statements from the Psalms of David sound the keynote of prayer for today. The first is in Psalm 25:5, “Lead me in Thy truth, and teach me”; and the second is in Psalm 43:3, “O send out Thy light and Thy truth: let them lead me.” Stated more succinctly, they read: “Lead me into Thy truth; let Thy truth lead me.”<br /><br /> The special need of this prayer for our time is due to the fact that we are living in an era of unprecedented lying and deception. Lying propaganda has always been the chief causal agent in the breakdown of orderly society. It was used prior to the expulsion from Eden, where the tempter said to the woman, “Ye shall not surely die.” It deluded the people of Noah’s time and buried a civilization in a watery grave. Lies played their part in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and in the downfall of every nation and civilization from that distant time to the present century.<br /><br /> Speaking to the drunkards of Ephraim and to all the “scornful men” of his own generation, the Prophet Isaiah said:<br /><br /> <strong>“Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it. From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning it shall pass over, by day and by night and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.” (Isa. 28:15-19.)</strong><br /><br /> Such leaders as Isaiah portrays in this chapter are never concerned about truth. They feel secure in the refuge of lies concocted for them by false prophets, faithless priests and political hacks. Always bent on their own evil schemes, they never inquire, “What saith the Lord?” They do not want to know truth, nor do they want to be led by it. It was available to them, as it is to us. So much Divine truth is set forth in the writings of Moses that men who had access to them were without excuse if they failed to heed his teachings; however, access to both Old and New Testaments ignore the wealth of revelation at hand.<br /><br /> Later, as Isaiah looked down the centuries and saw the Israel peoples regathered under the covenant of their Redeemer, he was saddened by the vision that confronted him. In chapter 59, the prophet gives a remarkable description of conditions as they exist today in the United States, in Britain, and in all the other nominally Christian lands of the Western world. We quote in part as follows:<br /><br /> <strong>“Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity….The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.</strong><br /><br /> <strong>“Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men. We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us. For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us:…in transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter. Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased Him that there was no judgment.”</strong><br /><br /> What could better describe the tumult, the conflicting opinions, emotions, uncertainties and confusion of the present time? <em>Truth is fallen in the street</em>. Consequently, equity cannot enter and there is no righteous judgment. When this condition exists, those who depart from evil become a prey, the victims of liars themselves are responsible. Truth must be rescued and reinstated in Christian society if our nations and churches and freedom are to survive.<br /><br /> What is one to believe? How can he know what is true and what is false in the midst of bedlam? There is only one way to know --- and that is the way of prayer --- earnest, prevailing prayer. When Israel’s beloved King and Psalmist faced problems similar to our own, he prayed:<br /><br /> <strong>"Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day….O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.” (Ps. 25:4-5; 43:3.)</strong><br /><br /> Now, in this crucial election year, Christians of the United States should keep this in prayer in their hearts and lips. Already the political campaigns are heading toward an all-time low in demagoguery. The former Democratic and Republican parties, in which each served as a balance wheel to the other, no longer exist; they are now merely two arms of the same international body, which General Douglas MacArthur referred to in one of his speeches as “the invisible government.” Unless a powerful new movement arises from the grass roots <em>soon</em>, voters will have no choice at the polls in November. Both parties have been captured by anti-Christian international conspirators. A vote for either party promises to be a vote for more Socialism to speed Zionism’s dream of World Government.<br /><br /> The editor of <em>Christian Economics </em>writes as follows under the headline, “Are We Disfranchised?”:<br /><br /> “In his new book, <em>Affairs of State – The Eisenhower Years</em>, Richard H. Rovere points out that the Eisenhower administration resembles the Truman administration. Harry and Dwight are more alike than either would suspect or admit….<br /><br /> “Both believe in increasing socialization not only in fiscal affairs, but in schools, ‘social security,’ conscription, universal military training, enormous payments to farmers in return for producing goods that are not needed or wanted at the prices demanded, and special privileges for unions that amount, in some cases, to subsidizing Socialist governments abroad, thus increasing their grip upon the people and so postponing, if not preventing, the achievement of more freedom which would result in greater production and increased well-being.<br /><br /> Both pay lip service to free enterprise, while following a program that leads more and more toward statism. We said before the last election that, if one wanted more Socialism, he could vote either ticket and be sure of winning. How true that prophecy has proved to be! The country is urgently in need of a new political alignment that will permit those who wish to vote against Socialism to register their convictions at the polls.” (May 15, 1956.)<br /><br /> Unless Christian patriots with influence and wealth launch <em>immediately</em> a new political ticket dedicated to the preservation of the Constitution and the sovereignty of the United States, the means with which to do this, both monetary and legal, may be wiped out overnight by judicial or executive order.<br /><br /> It is time to emphasize the fact that a Christian has not done his full duty when he supports a church program and maintains his respectability. As a citizen in the “Commonwealth of (Christian) Israel” (Eph. 2:12), he is responsible for righteous government under God’s direction and laws. If one doubts his responsibility toward the maintenance of good government, let him note what happens to churches when nations lose their freedom. We need to pray for an awakened sense of obligation, not only in national affairs, but in the separate affairs of our forty-eight state governments. Many of us have known the truth about the Divine source of good government, and our duty to uphold it, yet we have failed to let that truth lead us into active participation in the processes of free government.<br /><br /> Nonparticipation on the part of good men and women has left the cultivation of political fields in the hands of the wrong kind of people. No wonder the tares “sprung up” and brought forth evil fruit “while men slept.”<br /><br /> In <em>American Mercury</em>, June 1956, Board Chairman Russell Maguire wrote:<br /><br /> “World Government is the Beast who will lead us to destruction….Never forget there are two strings on the Devil’s violin:<br /><br /> “1) You can get something for nothing.<br /><br /> “2) It’s too late; you can’t do anything about it.<br /><br /> “Both are phony promises. <em>You definitely </em>can do something about it! <em>Will you?”</em><br /><br /> We would like to add a third string to the Devil’s violin:<br /><br /> “The Supreme Court has spoken. It is the law of the land. Nothing can be done about it.”<br /><br /> What fools people are to accept such palpable untruths! Any schoolboy with a smattering of civics ought to know better than that. The Supreme Court is not a legislative body; furthermore, its members, being liable to the elected representatives of the people, are subject to impeachment by Congress for improper acts and decisions.<br /><br /> Editorial writer and columnist for <em>The Dallas Morning News</em>, Lynn Landrum, who is versed also in legal matters, made some pertinent observations recently in his column: “Thinking Out Loud.” We quote a characteristic bit of wisdom which heads the column and follow with excerpts from the article:<br /><br /> “When judges write the laws<br /> To make us bond or free,<br /> The throne is then the bench<br /> And bondsmen all are we.<br /><br /> “In the opinion of the column, our present Supreme Court of the United States is dangerously subversive in that it tends mightily to destroy and set at naught the system of restraints on power which the Constitution of the United States established. Indeed, we are drifting rapidly toward a situation where what the Constitution says will make no difference to the court and little to the country….<br /><br /> “The present court, packed by the New Deal --- Queer Deal --- Re-deal (Roosevelt, Truman & Eisenhower), has lost respect with the country and has just about lost with it the practicing bar. Numerically, gravest accountability is on Roosevelt and Truman. But Eisenhower’s Chief Justice Warren is a toothy sample of as an unqualified judge as ever sat in such company. Mr. Warren was a Governor and his teeth are good. And he is on the bench. Therefore, he is Chief Justice of the United States….Not being real judges when appointed --- with such exceptions as, by their nature, add no prestige to the court --- our nine gentlemen on the bench cannot agree with themselves. Indeed they cannot stay of one mind on one case for as long as 24 months in succession, with the inglorious result that a litigant who wins a judgment confirmed by the Supreme Court is not safe in taking the money, lest, after he has spent it, the Supreme Court turn upon him and demand it back again.<br /><br /> “Mr. James F. Byrnes, himself a former Chief Justice on the Supreme Court, thinks Congress can do something about all this. Article III, Section 1, of the Constitution is what he is talking about. And Mr. Byrnes is not a man to talk through his hat. The jurisdiction of the Supreme Court is subject to exceptions and regulations ‘as Congress may by law direct.’ It is time to direct.<br /><br /> The chief aim of deceivers is to make us think that we are helpless, that there is nothing we can do to counteract their ruinous policies. Truth falls in the street when citizens believe their lies and submit to their outrageous depredations. The Lord sees it, Isaiah reminds us, and it displeases Him when His people exercise no judgment in dealing with traitors.<br /><br /> All Western nations are being shoved toward destruction by widespread deception in high places. We have touched briefly on deception in the realm of government. But its poisonous tentacles reach into every phase of our personal and corporate lives. It would require volumes to record the ramifications of lying propaganda in the vast areas of education, both secular and religious, and in the various channels of public information --- the press, radio, television, cinema, <em>et cetera.</em><br /><br /> Among the people who regard themselves as exemplary Christians, there are many who do not realize what a serious thing it is to tamper with truth. It may surprise some to find that the Bible puts liars in the same bracket with the lowest of criminals. Consider the following thought-provoking statements:<br /><br /> <strong>“A sword is upon the liars.” (Jer. 50:36.)<br /><br /> “Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers [kidnappers], for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine.” (I Tim. 1:9-10.)<br /><br /> “He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son. But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolators, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.” (Rev. 21:7-8.)</strong><br /><br /> Surely it is time to pray to be heard throughout all Christian lands. Someone has said that Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees. James says in his Epistle, “Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (4:7).<br /><br /> The Scriptures contain many helpful prayers to guide our thinking. He who seeks them out and makes them his own will grow in grace and truth and wisdom. Suppose all who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ would pray in sincerity every day: “Lead me in Thy truth; let Thy truth lead me.” Who can measure the power for truth one such prayer could generate in the world today?<br />Articles from Biblical Treasures (Volume II) – C. R. Dickey<br /><br /><strong>INTRODUCTION</strong><br /><br /> The Staff at Destiny Publishers, having read all the articles written by the late C. R. Dickey (Christina R. Dickey) found in DESTINY Magazines from July 1938 to October 1967, received such a blessing from her writings that we wanted to share the information with all who are seeking God’s wonderful truths. We are hereby publishing all her articles in two volumes, which we believe you will find most inspiring and of genuine interest and value.<br /><br /> Her knowledge of the Scriptures was unbelievable so she must have had a very close association with her Lord, as she certainly became a champion for His cause.<br /><br /> Our late beloved editor, Howard B. Rand, realized her talent as he published many of articles in booklet form.<br /><br /> The reader should take into account the time element when each article was written, which was from the late thirties to the middle sixties. We found her articles to be up to the minute as though she had written them yesterday. Her writings on various subjects are backed up with Scripture verses, as well as with quotes from reliable sources, when making a point. From her writings, the Lord surely made use of her God-given talents.<br /><br /> Although we do not have any knowledge of her background, we do know that she was a Congregational minister. Her sermons given must have been of interest and value to her congregation. We are sure her articles contained in this book will do the same.<br /><br /><strong>OTHER BOOKS AND BOOKLETS BY THE AUTHOR</strong><br /><br />One Man’s Destiny<br />An Emerging Civilization – out of print<br />The Basic Principles in Bible Study – out of print<br />The Bible and Modernism<br />The Bible and Segregation<br />Facing the Sunrise<br />Origin and Transmission of the BibleGina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-78672526393207414562010-01-07T13:03:00.000-08:002010-01-24T21:55:02.497-08:00HEALTH AND COMMON SENSE<strong>HEALTH AND COMMON SENSE</strong> <em>This is an article from DESTINY Magazine 1937-1968 by CR Dickey</em><br /><br />An American Bible Society pamphlet by Daniel A. Poling is titled “<em>What is the Bible?”. </em>Dr. Poling begins an answer to the question by saying:<br /><br /> “What is the Bible? It is inspired common sense. The humblest man reads it because it meets his various needs; it appeals to his sound judgment; it is reasonable.<br /><br /> “What is the Bible? It is common sense adapted to every walk of life….And in all particulars its effectiveness has not diminished since its first edition came from the press. Human publications have their days and become obsolete; but God’s Word is like Himself, ‘the same yesterday, today and forever.’”<br /><br /> Does the Bible – this potent, unchanging volume of “inspired common sense” – have anything to say on the subject of health, which sooner or later becomes a matter of deep concern to every family? Indeed it has much to say, in fact, and says it with finality.<br /><br /> From the Bible we learn the incontrovertible source of health. It is announced clearly and emphatically in Exodus 15:26:<br /><br /> <strong>“If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in His sight, and wilt give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: <em>for I am the Lord that healeth thee.”</em></strong><br /><br /> David, Israel’s beloved psalmist and king, states the source of healing and vitality in Psalm 103: 2-5:<br /><br /> <strong>“Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”</strong><br /><br /> There are scores of such informative statements on the subject of health from the writings of Moses and the prophets and the apostles. God’s concern for the physical welfare of His people may well be measured by the amount of time His Son, Christ Jesus, spent in healing diseases during the short span of His ministry. His healing activities, as recorded in the Four Gospels, absorbed Him so completely at times as to overshadow temporarily other phases of His great work. By His never-failing compassion for the infirmities and sufferings of humanity, Jesus demonstrated the divine source of man’s health and general well-being.<br /><br /> While most Christians agree that God is the ultimate source of health, there is much honest disagreement as to His methods of healing. Some devout believers hold that all healing must come through the direct intervention of God in the manner which was used by Jesus and His disciples, and they feel that it dishonors God to seek help from any other source, even when it is used as a supplement to one’s faith. Others, equally sincere, feel justified in using the professional services of men and women who have developed their natural gifts of healing.<br /><br /> How can we know who is right? How may we determine the method, or methods, God uses to restore health?<br /><br /> From the way different Christian sects have wrangled, often bitterly, over this question it may seem that authoritative information on the subject has never been available. On the contrary, such information is not only at hand now, but it has been silently awaiting recognition since long before the Christian era began. The answer is found in the Old Testament Apocrypha, literature which was familiar reading to Jesus, His disciples and the early Christians. It was formerly included in all our English Bibles. Since its removal from our Old Testament, numerous cults have arisen to plague Christians throughout the world with strife, schisms and an abundance of false teaching regarding the matter of health. The book is Ecclesiasticus, from which we quote the first 14 verses of chapter 38:<br /><br /> <strong>“Honour a physician with the honour due unto him for the uses which ye may have of him: for the Lord hath created him. For of the most High cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the king. The skill of the physician shall lift up his head: and in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration. The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known? And He hath given men skill, that He might be honoured in His marvelous works. With such doth He heal [men], and taketh away their pains. Of such doth the apothecary make a confection; and of His works there is no end; and from Him is peace over all the earth.<br /><br /> “My son, in thy sickness be not negligent: but pray unto the Lord, and He will make thee whole. Leave off from sin, and order thine hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all wickedness. Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour; and make a fat offering, as not being. Then give place to the physician, for the Lord hath created him: let him not go from thee, for thou hast need of him. There is a time when in their hands there is good success. For they [the physicians] shall also pray unto the Lord, that He would prosper that, which they give for ease and remedy to prolong life.”</strong><br /><br /> How can the question of God’s method of healing be answered more completely? Where else can one find “inspired common sense” expressed with more clarity and simplicity? All the necessary elements are there – not implied but explicitly declared. There is no room for misunderstanding and argument. Wayfaring men, though fools, can read and comprehend the simple instructions which promise freedom from pain and the prolongation of life.<br /><br /> Only the Lord Himself knows how much suffering and how many untimely deaths might have been averted if these fourteen sentences had remained in our Bibles and had been frequently called to the attention of the people by consecrated ministers. Most clergymen and a few laymen now have copies of the Apocrypha. Some Protestant councils have advised ministers in their fellowship to use the Apocryphal books in their preaching. But this has been done rarely, if at all; thus only a comparatively few Christians ever hear of Ecclesiasticus 38:1-14.<br /><br /> <em>Study the foregoing formula and note these eight factors involved in the process of healing: 1) the power of God from Whom all healing comes; 2) the skill of the physician; 3) medicines out of the earth; 4) the skill of the apothecary; 5) prayer on the part of the patient; 6) prayer on the part of the physician; 7) leave off sin and practice clean living; and 8) express gratitude in a memorial offering.</em><br /><br /> While recognizing the Most High as the Great Physician, we must also consider the fact that He utilizes physicians and medicines as cooperative agents in the process of healing. Many adherents of faith healing sects will not agree with this statement. They remind us that Jesus and His disciples went about curing all manner of diseases without physicians and medicines. In all sincerity they feel that we dishonor God by our lack of faith when we use any material means or human agencies. They ask, are we not promised that the prayer of faith shall save the sick?<br /><br /> On the other hand, it is well to remember that the work Jesus did in curing diseases and raising the dead formed a major part of the signs and wonders which necessarily accompanied His ministry in order to prove His Messiahship and to inaugurate the great Christian movement. In so doing Jesus used invisible forces still unknown to men. When some emergency arises prayer can bring these same forces into operation again, as it has done on many occasions in the past and is still doing today. Missionaries in our generations have reported thrilling instances of healing and protection when they were overtaken by disease in some lonely spot far from medical aid. Our servicemen in the present war have already sent back many stories of divine intervention when they were injured and stranded at sea or on barren islands – and the half of such remarkable testimonies have not yet been reported.<br /><br /> It is acknowledged by all reasonable thinkers that God can heal diseases fully and instantaneously with no visible means; it is further acknowledged that He has done so in the past and continues to do so now when necessity demands it, or when such demonstration serves His holy purpose. The question is, should Christian believers dispense with all the natural means of health at their disposal and expect the Lord to perform some special miracle of healing on their behalf? There is a principle expressed in the temptation of Jesus which seems to answer this question:<br /><br /> <strong>“Then the devil taketh Him up into the Holy City, and setteth Him on a pinnacle of the temple, and saith unto Him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give His angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.” (Matt. 4:5-7.)</strong> <br /><br /> Note in this example how Satan misapplied a Scriptural promise of protection in his effort to goad Jesus into committing a rash act. According to Jesus’ answer, one should not challenge God to uphold his willful disregard and violation of natural laws. Therefore, it seems that the man who demands instant and miraculous healing may be guilty of tempting God. Jesus knew that if He cast Himself down from the pinnacle of the Temple in defiance of the law of gravity, merely to please the devil, He would suffer the consequences. And so it is with a sick man who spurns all divinely appointed aids for his recovery, meanwhile dictating to God the manner of his healing. God seldom works by the spectacular method of signs and wonders; more often He uses the slower processes of revealed laws and their operations in familiar, normal channels.<br /><br /> The one great hindrance to good health on a national scale is the personal equation, consisting of the indeterminate foibles, idiosyncrasies and pet aversions of each and every one of us, doctors of all kinds included. First, we ignore the fundamental principles of health for the nation as a whole; second, we pay no attention to the dietary regulations prescribed in the Bible; and third, we neglect contacting God, through Christ, in daily devotion and prayer.<br /><br /> Read Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 to learn the basic principles of health. Speaking to the newly formed Israel nation – not Jews, mind you, but the whole House of Jacob-Israel – the Lord God said:<br /><br /> <strong>“Ye shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence My Sanctuary: I am the Lord. If ye walk in My statutes, and keep My commandments, and do them; then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit. And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. And I will give peace in the land, and ye shall lie down, and none shall make you afraid: and I will rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go through your land.<br /><br /> “I will set My tabernacle among you: and My soul shall not abhor you. And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be My people.<br /><br /> “But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; and if ye shall despise My statutes, or if your soul abhor My judgments, so that ye will not do all My commandments, but that ye break My covenant: I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.”</strong><br /><br /> Specific rules regarding diet are recorded in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. Other suggestions will be found in various passages from the Pentateuch. For instance, Aaron was instructed to burn animal fats. We soak fried foods in lard and suet, leave fats in the gravy and actually eat the fat portions along with the lean meat. Surely we have no right to expect God to perform miracles of healing for us when we violate His rules of health, either willfully or ignorantly. Yet people as a whole are stubborn beyond all reason when it comes to changing life-long eating habits.<br /><br /> Modern physicians also have much to learn about these fundamental principles of health. They too are required to seek counsel of God in prayer. Because of their failure to do this, many secrets of healing have not yet been revealed to them. Furthermore, they are not giving due consideration to the Bible as a source of health knowledge; consequently, they often prescribe for their patients food that is forbidden in the Bible regimen. Doctors, like preachers, are slow to investigate anything that is not endorsed by the school in which they received their training. The heavenly Father does not confine all wisdom within the narrow limits of any particular school. Men should ever be on the alert for new revelation wherever it may be found.<br /><br /> Nutritionists have pioneered ahead of the medical profession in the science of foods in relation to health. They have rendered notable service in the matter of better balanced menus. Some among them, however, are obsessed with the idea that their method is the infallible cure-all for every known disease. Without discrimination and knowledge of conditions, each one unhesitatingly recommends his theory as the answer to Ponce de Leon’s desire for eternal youth and vigor. Sometimes it is an exclusive diet of fruit juices for days at a time – between fasts; or it may be raw vegetables that will turn the tide in the battle for health. While all these things are good in moderation when balanced with other essential foods, they may be positively harmful if used alone or to excess. Many people are allergic to raw foods and to certain fruits. But these extremists have one formula for all, without reckoning with the old adage, “One man’s meat is another man’s poison.”<br /><br /> There is another important question the sick man must consider if he wants the Lord’s help; namely, what use does he intend to make of his strength? Will he use the gift of health for selfish ends only, or will he dedicate his renewed strength to whatever work will best serve the Lord and his fellowmen? Any honest man’s labor becomes hallowed when his purpose is to honor God and do His will. But he will miss if his motives are self centered:<br /><br /> <strong>“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts [pleasures].” (James 4:3.)</strong><br /><br /> An essential question faces the physician also. He must ask himself, why do I want power over disease? Do I want it in order that I may cooperate with God in alleviating human suffering and prolonging life? Or do I want it primarily to accumulate great fortune for myself, as many of my colleagues have done? A physician’s calling is too sacred to be guided by mercenary motives.<br /><br /> Medical science was practically undeveloped in Jesus’ day and what little was known at that time was inaccessible to the poor. So Jesus and His disciples graciously healed all who sought their help. Masses of people then were afflicted with diseases which modern surgery and medicines now eliminate readily. Yet unfortunately, at the present time, there is an increasing tendency to set a prohibitive price on all branches of medical service. It is felt most keenly by average middle-class people, who are not eligible for the free service in county hospitals and would not accept charity in any case. Physicians must see that proper care is within reach of all classes of citizens. It is a responsibility they cannot escape.<br /><br /> There remains one last fact to be taken into account: “It is appointed unto man once to die.” That verdict must be considered at some time in every life. Again, there are times when one may serve God’s purpose better in affliction than in health. We do not know to this day why Paul’s “thorn in the flesh” was not removed. But we do know why he had to be imprisoned. It was for the purpose of writing his imperishable Epistles to the churches. His freedom to travel and preach had to be removed before he would take time to record his teachings for posterity. So in praying for restored health, remember always that even our Lord Jesus added these submissive words to His prayer in Gethsemane:<br /><br /> <strong>“Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.” (Luke 22:42.)</strong><br /><br /> In Ecclesiasticus are many statements worth remembering. The following are little commentaries on life, health and death, expressed in the philosophy of common sense:<br /><br /> <strong>“Let the counsel of thine own heart stand: for there is no man more faithful unto thee than it. For a man’s mind is sometime wont to tell him more than seven watchmen, that sit above in an high tower. And above all this pray to the most High, that He will direct thy way in truth. Let reason go before every enterprise, and counsel before every action.<br /><br /> “My son, prove thy soul in thy life, and see what is evil for it, and give not that unto it. For all things are not profitable for all men, neither hath every soul pleasure in every thing. Be not unsatiable in any dainty thing, nor too greedy upon meats: for excess of meats bringeth sickness, and surfeiting will turn into choler. By surfeiting [immoderate indulgence] have many perished; but he that taketh heed prolongeth his life.<br /><br /> “O death, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, unto the man that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things: yes, unto him that is yet able to receive meat! O death, acceptable is thy sentence unto the needy, and unto him whose strength faileth, that is now in the last age, and is vexed with all things, and to him that despaireth, and hath lost patience! Fear not the sentence of death, remember them that have been before thee, and that come after; for this is the sentence of the Lord over all flesh.” (Ecclesiasticus 37:13-16, 27-31, 41:13.)</strong><br /><br /> Thus death was the sentence over all flesh when man renounced his allegiance to his Creator. Even so, there is a reason why the inspired writer could say, “Fear not the sentence of death.” Long after His work was done, a Man came from God and gave Himself a ransom to break the bond of death. The prophet Hosea foretold His coming in these dramatic words:<br /><br /> <strong>“I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction.” (Hosea 13:14.)</strong><br /><br /> Paul, in his first letter to Timothy, registered the fulfillment of Hosea’s prophecy:<br /><br /> <strong>“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.” (I Tim. 2:5-6.)</strong><br /><br /> The Christian hope will not acquiesce in a sentence of death, because Christ brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel. We look for the day He promised, when <strong>“there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain” (Rev. 21:4).</strong><br /><br /> In that day we shall see “<strong>the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations” (Rev. 22:2).</strong><br />===============================<br />Articles from Biblical Treasures (Volume II) – C. R. Dickey<br /><br /><strong>INTRODUCTION</strong><br /><br /> The Staff at Destiny Publishers, having read all the articles written by the late C. R. Dickey (Christina R. Dickey) found in DESTINY Magazines from July 1938 to October 1967, received such a blessing from her writings that we wanted to share the information with all who are seeking God’s wonderful truths. We are hereby publishing all her articles in two volumes, which we believe you will find most inspiring and of genuine interest and value.<br /><br /> Her knowledge of the Scriptures was unbelievable so she must have had a very close association with her Lord, as she certainly became a champion for His cause.<br /><br /> Our late beloved editor, Howard B. Rand, realized her talent as he published many of articles in booklet form.<br /><br /> The reader should take into account the time element when each article was written, which was from the late thirties to the middle sixties. We found her articles to be up to the minute as though she had written them yesterday. Her writings on various subjects are backed up with Scripture verses, as well as with quotes from reliable sources, when making a point. From her writings, the Lord surely made use of her God-given talents.<br /><br /> Although we do not have any knowledge of her background, we do know that she was a Congregational minister. Her sermons given must have been of interest and value to her congregation. We are sure her articles contained in this book will do the same.Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-60853666268592698572009-12-30T05:53:00.001-08:002009-12-30T05:53:46.044-08:00Colorado Winter Sunset 122909<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosethistleartworks/4228441634/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2678/4228441634_58ebd3e068_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosethistleartworks/4228441634/">Colorado Winter Sunset 122909</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/rosethistleartworks/">rosethistleartworks</a></span><br clear="all" /><p>Beautiful winter sunset as we finally got to just above freezing yesterday! Where's our global warming? lol</p>Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-58777609003426901732009-12-19T12:54:00.000-08:002009-12-19T20:34:29.173-08:00Ronald Reagan - We Must Fight!!!<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_3MiBI9ZRBo&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_3MiBI9ZRBo&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br />"Political Correctness" died on a plane with heroes that said, "Let's roll".<br /><br />Ronald Reagan – We Must Fight<br />Now let’s set the record straight. There is no argument over the choice between peace and war. But, there’s only one guaranteed way you can have peace. And you can have it in the next second. Surrender. Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement. And this is the specter our well-meaning, liberal friends refuse to face; that their policy of accommodation IS appeasement and it gives no choice between peace and war; only between fight or surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand, the ultimatum. And what then? Well, Nikita Kruschev has told his people, he knows what our answer will be. He has told them that we’re retreating under the pressure of the Cold War. And someday when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary, because by that time, we will have been weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he’s heard voices pleading for peace at any price, or better red than dead, or as one commentator put it, he’d rather live on his knees than die on his feet. And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don’t speak for the rest of us. You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin? Just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refuse to fire the shot heard ‘round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools and our honored dead, who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis, didn’t die in vain. Where then is the road to peace? <br />Well, it’s a simple answer, after all. You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, there is a price we will not pay. There is a point beyond which they must not advance. Winston Churchill said the destiny of man is not measured by material compensations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits, not animals. He said there’s something going on in time and space and beyond time and space which whether we like it or not, spells DUTY. You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We’ll preserve for our children, this the last best hope of man on earth or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-22486839508752296702009-12-02T14:13:00.000-08:002009-12-02T14:16:04.530-08:00AMERICA HAS BEEN TOO BUSYAMERICA HAS BEEN TOO BUSY - article from Destiny Magazine 1938-1967 by CR Dickey<br /><br /> George Washington, in his Farewell Address to the people of the United States said:<br /><br /> “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morals are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props to the duties of men and citizens.<br /><br /> “And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, both reason and experience forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle….<br /><br /> “It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and, too, novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.”<br /><br /> That the revered Father of our Country referred to Christianity in particular, rather than to religion in general, we know from his record as a Protestant churchman and from such statements as the following which he made when appointing the hour for worship in the brigades:<br /><br /> “The Commander-in-chief directs that divine services be performed every Sunday at eleven o’clock. While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.”<br /><br /> It is a well-known fact that Washington and his compatriots built our national structure upon the principles of Jesus Christ and the Common Law, both of which are rooted in the writings of Moses and the prophets. These notable statesmen were the instruments of Providence to lay the foundation of a unique nation in a new land. It has been said that “Washington was as divinely selected, endowed and blessed as any man in the world’s history.” One cannot find outside the Bible narrative a record of men so devoted to “exalted justice” as were these moral and intellectual giants who charted the course of our Republic and framed its Constitution. They trusted not wholly in their own wisdom, nor in the force of arms, nor in commercial genius; they knew, as did the Psalmist, that “Except the Lord built the house, they labour in vain that build it; except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.” (PS. 127:1).<br /><br /> We Americans in a world at war must think on our ways. We must re-examine our beginning if we would maintain those elements which guarantee life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.<br /><br /> In I Kings, Chapter 20, there is a strange little parable. It was directed to ancient Israel and yet, oddly enough, it is even more strikingly applicable to modern Anglo-Saxon Israel. Let us review it briefly.<br /><br /> One fateful day Ahab, king of Israel, traveled along the highway toward Samaria. A prophet in disguise met the king by the way and related to him this story:<br /><br /> “Thy servant went out into the midst of the battle: and, behold, a man turned aside, and brought a man unto me, and said, Keep this man: if by any means he be missing, then shall thy life be for his life, or else thou shalt pay a talent of silver. And as they servant was busy here and there, he was gone.” (I Kings 20:39-40.)<br /><br /> Quickly the stranger removed his disguise and the king discerned that he was of the prophets. Facing Ahab boldly the prophet gave an explanation that was also a stern accusation:<br /><br /> “Thus saith the Lord, Because thou hast let go out of thy hand a man whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.” (I Kings 20:42.)<br /><br /> Then Ahab understood the parable. Israel’s king was the servant; Benhadad, the Syrian king and Israel’s deadliest foe, was the man whom God had delivered into Ahab’s hand for utter destruction. While Ahab dawdled --- busy here and there with peace negotiations and covenants --- Benhadad slipped through the noose and was gone.<br /><br /> “Thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.” In anger and heaviness of heart Ahab continued on his way to Samaria.<br /><br /> Alas! America too has been busy --- here and there --- extending hospitality and undue consideration to the nation’s enemies. It would be most interesting to know how many malignant foes have slipped through the hands of our national administrators during the generation of which we are a part. Danger lurks in the fact that we can never get our foes deported, nor keep them in prison long enough to serve a sentence. They ought to be put to death; that is the Scriptural method and the only one ever known to work effectively. How much longer will the present laxity be tolerated? How many more of the nation’s youth will be sacrificed on the altar of criminal negligence? Their blood will be on the heads of those who protect the traitors among us; but that will not bring back the dead, nor mitigate the sorrow of wives, mothers and children. It is to our shame that, instead of punishing the betrayers in our midst, we persecute the men who point them out.<br /><br /> Again let George Washington speak these words of warning; “Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens), the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government. But that jealousy, to be useful, must be impartial.”<br /><br /> This same warning is stated innumerable times in the Bible as a safeguard to the Lord’s people. Israel was never known to win when in league with the enemies of God. We are not profiting as we should by our knowledge of Israel’s experiences. Unfortunately, many of the nation’s leaders are heeding neither Bible, nor the counsel of George Washington. Using the war emergency as an excuse, they are injecting totalitarian methods into our national life with increasing frequency. Yet is it logical to suppose that America’s treasured freedom can be preserved by adopting the methods of dictators?<br /><br /> Bishop James E. Freeman spoke wisely when he said: “Nothing alien to our traditions may assume to govern or control us in our course or determine for us our relation to problems at home or abroad….The recognition of the immutable laws of God, unfailing allegiance to those fundamental principles of life given to mankind by Jesus Christ, these we may not ignore or neglect, except to our peril.”<br /><br /> We have been too busy worshipping Mammon and chasing empty pleasures to see the totalitarian secret agents at work within our borders. While crafty masterminds were forging ahead in Europe and Asia with well-laid plans for world conquest, they kept us talking about disarmament, peace, reconciliation, brotherly love and international good will. And now our hearts stop a beat and a sickening horror fills our souls as we read that American boys --- precious boys like yours and mine --- are being captured and dragged into enemy camps to suffer a fate that we dare not contemplate. Like Ahab we are facing the results of our stupendous folly. Having disregarded God’s decrees for our national safety, we are now under the sentence of His irrevocable verdict: “Thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his people.”<br /><br /> Many of America’s enemies have come from foreign shores; others were born in this country but maintain alien connections and loyalties; and still another group --- the most contemptible of all --- is composed of native stooges who serve as a smoke screen for the first two groups. World revolution, as a means to world dominion, is the program of certain internationalists who own allegiance to no nation and are traitors to the welfare of all. We are forgetting to watch them at the present moment. When the watchman sleeps, or is busy elsewhere, the betrayer has his opportunity. If we become too absorbed battling rats at the back door, we may not see the bear and the wolf when they enter the front door to take possession of the house.<br /><br /> Subversive workers find ridicule a most efficacious tool. They use it in season and out of season on everything that gets in their path. For some years they have directed ridicule toward the good old American virtue of patriotism. They know that the easiest way to produce disintegration in any country is to break down the affection and loyalty of its citizens; to convince them that there is really nothing worth fighting and dying for. Ridicule is a subtle and poisonous barb; many grew lethargic under its influence. That is why it took the Pearl Harbor stab in the back to wake us up.<br /><br /> A true patriot’s attitude is summed up in this terse sentence: “My country, right or wrong, when right to keep her right; when wrong to put her right.” Valiant men are going out now to die for our country. Do we, who remain on the home front, have the stamina to live for it and make it right? Have we the courage to overthrow every civil system that thrives by exploiting our citizenry and undermining our republic? If not, then we, like millions in occupied Europe, will pay dearly in blood for our cowardice.<br /><br /> Out of a glorious past comes this thrilling challenge from Daniel Webster: “I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American; and I intend to perform the duties incumbent upon me in that character to the end of my career. I mean to do this with absolute disregard of personal consequences. What are the personal consequences? What is the individual man, with all the good or evil that may betide him, in comparison with the good or evil which may befall a great country, and in the midst of great transactions which concern that country’s fate? Let the consequences be what they will, I am careless. No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffers, or if he fall, in the defense of the liberties and constitution of his country.”<br /><br /> What now constitutes the direst threat to our freedom and to what we like to call our American way of life? It lies in the fact that so many honest, true-hearted citizens do not realize what is happening to our republican form of government. Again we have been busy --- here and there --- too busy to notice what enemies within have been doing to our cherished liberties.<br /><br /> How naïve we are! What simple means serve to confuse us and blind us to elementary truths! A carefully designed misuse of a single word on the part of clever propagandists has led approximately 130 million people to accept a fundamental error: and that word is “democracy.” Perhaps no other word was ever used so much and understood so little. It adorns the pages of every newspaper, magazine, and book; it resounds in oratorical splendor across the continent from the little red school-house to the congressional and senatorial chambers of the national Capitol. “Our Democracy!”<br /><br /> Does no one remember that our Founding Fathers almost never used the word democracy? In their public addresses they talked about “our Republic” and “our republican form of government.” Democracy? The following paragraphs from Lawful Money Explained by Gertrude M. Coogan, answer the question briefly but adequately.<br /><br /> “The stock-in-trade of a demagogue in all controversy and confusion is the skillful bandying about of words. He artfully uses words in a way intended to convey different meanings to different listeners.<br /><br /> “A word now artfully and deceptively used in this country is DEMOCRACY . Democracy means rule by direct action of the people. Our Constitution did not provide for a democracy, and real democracies have ever produced nothing but chaos and slavery. They have always turned into mobocracies.<br /><br /> “The Founders of America established a Republic. Under a republic the power of government is vested in the citizens, but is delegated and exercised by the representatives of the people. The specific powers our representatives received from us (citizens) were granted to them in our Constitution and its amendments.<br /><br /> “In our particular type of Republic three branches were set up; the legislative could pass laws in accord with the power granted by the citizens and the States, the executive was to see that the laws were carried out, and the judicial was to interpret the laws in accord with the Constitution.<br /><br /> “In speaking of a Republic or Democracy, we are not referring to the Republican or Democratic political parties. The Republican party of today was born sixty-five years after the Constitution was adopted. Partisanship has nothing whatever to do with the fundamental principles underlying our government. All elected officials, whether Democratic or Republican, take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States. The immediate job is to get rid of all, regardless of party, who have not kept oath!<br /><br /> “The Constitution would not have guaranteed one form of government if those intelligent men who drafted it had another form in mind. According to Webster, a Republic is ‘A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them.’ A Democracy is ‘A form of government in which the supreme power is retained and directly exercised by the people.’<br /><br /> “The word ‘democracy’ or any of its derivatives is not to be found in our Constitution but we do read in Article IV, Section 4: ‘The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government and shall protect each of them against invasion.’ The public utterances and writings of those who drafted the Constitution of the United States should be considered authentic evidence of their intent.”<br /><br /> George Washington, in his reply to the Senate, said that he was happy in the conviction “that the Senate will at all times cooperate in every measure which may tend to promote the welfare of this confederated Republic.”<br /><br /> Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, said in his first inaugural address: “If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error or opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”<br /><br /> James Madison, who is honored more today for the part he took in drafting and ratifying the Constitution of the United States than for his career as President, stated why he and his illustrious coworkers decided upon a Republic instead of a Democracy. Ponder these relevant words from the “Father of the Constitution”:<br /><br /> “Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. A Republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking.”<br /><br /> Despite this irrefutable evidence that the United States of America is a Republic with a republican form of government, men and women, claiming the intelligence to lead their fellowmen, speak and write incessantly about the glories of our Democracy. That shows how dutifully they are following the path prescribed by our enemies!<br /><br /> Professor Harold J. Laski, who numbers among his faithful disciples most of the pseudo “liberals” of Britain and America, tells us that “Soviet Russia is the world’s hope of democracy, alongside of the United States.” There you have the key to the situation! Professor Laski does us a real service by pointing out the ultimate aim of the democracy now being foisted upon unsuspecting American citizens. This spurious democracy is exactly the same thing as Communism in Russia, Nazism in Germany, Fascism in Italy and military dictatorship in Japan. It is designed to undermine the form of our government and to negate the principles and rights guaranteed under our great Constitution. If allowed to complete its deadly course, it will turn our Republic into a totalitarian state and destroy the last vestige of freedom in America, just as it has scourged and desecrated the lands and people of Europe and Asia.<br /><br /> Doubtless unwary citizens in those conquered lands were busy --- here and there --- before the day of desolation and did not see what was happening to them until it was too late. Can it happen here? Will it happen here? It can and it will --- unless --- the populace rises in mighty indignation and rids the land of ALL traitors, regardless of nationality, race or sex.<br /><br /> Will the destroyers of freedom escape justice at our hands as Benhadad eluded Ahab? If so, we need no longer sing, “God bless America”, nor pray “God help America”, for God blesses and helps only those who help themselves.<br /><br /> Theorists who have spent a lifetime advocating various “isms” and the overthrow of representative constitutional government have nothing to offer in its place as a satisfactory way of life. Note the wistfulness in this confession of defeat by England’s veteran socialist, George Bernard Shaw: “I am ready to admit that, after contemplating human nature for nearly sixty years, I see no way out of the world’s misery but the way which would have been found by Christ’s will if he had undertaken the work of a modern practical statesman.”<br /><br /> Joseph Chamberlain was once asked why, in his opinion, so many fall short of the goal. He answered, “They come to the place where they turn back. They may have killed the dragon at the first bridge, and at the second, perhaps even at the third, but the dragons are always more formidable the further we go. Many turn back disheartened, and very few will meet the monsters to the end. Almost none is willing to have a try with the demon at the last bridge; but if he does, he has won forever.”<br /><br /> In conflict with satan, Jesus Christ won at the last bridge. His weapon was the Sword of the Spirit --- “It is written.” Today the United States needs more men who are acquainted with that Sword and not afraid to use it; more men who realize that the independence of our nation was established by statesmen unashamed to acknowledge their dependence on God; and more men who know our beginnings as recorded in the Holy Bible and in the annals of this American Republic.Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-82590539392055365142009-11-30T13:56:00.000-08:002010-03-27T06:53:59.243-07:00FRUITS OF THE SOCIAL GOSPEL by CR Dickey<strong>FRUITS OF THE SOCIAL GOSPEL</strong> article from Destiny magazine 1938-1967 by CR Dickey<br /><br /> During the momentous years between 1920 and 1940 that strange phenomenon known as the Social Gospel reached the apex of its popularity. Many church conferences of that era were built largely around the Social Gospel as the main triumphant theme. Church dignitaries vied with one another in extolling its glories, all of them confident that its application would bring harmony and peace to the whole world within a few short years. The old Gospel of salvation by repentance, by faith in the efficacy of Christ’s death and resurrection, was laid aside like a worn-out garment. At last society had found a way to save itself.<br /><br /> A few of us detected sour notes in the theme. At that time we knew nothing about the background of the Social Gospel, or its ultimate intent, but instinctively we didn’t like its overtones and undertones. It just didn’t seem to ring true; consequently, it made us vaguely uneasy and left us cold. Soon we were seared by the withering scorn of seminary professors and leading pulpiteers for refusing to accept the teachings and aims of the Social Gospel as the highest expression of the will of Christ. So completely did our colleagues go all out for the newfangled salvation, that we sometimes wondered if novices like ourselves could possibly be right.<br /><br /> So, as pariahs, we sat apart and watched our church and other leading denominations organize various councils and committees to promote the Social Gospel. Queer revolutionary doctrines, alien alike to the spirit of the churches and to the spirit of America, were openly presented in ecclesiastical assemblies. A steady stream of mail began to flow from these councils and committees to the churches across the nation. Bulletins, newsletters, plebiscites, program suggestions, et cetera, deluged the churches; they were designed for the church school, and for every department including men, women and children. No group was neglected in this program of indoctrination. Speakers were sent out from the headquarters of these various Social Action councils, and churches were urged to use them when available.<br /><br /> Before considering the results of the Social Gospel, let us examine briefly its beginning and how it was handed down to us. In an excellent summary of this development under the title, “<em>The Origins of the Social Gospel</em>,” Irving E. Howard, minister of the Hope Congregational Church, Worcester, Massachusetts, writes:<br /><br /> “The Social Gospel was born in the optimistic atmosphere of the nineteenth century conquest of the vast American continent and its abundant natural resources. Man was rapidly becoming the master of nature, aided by the new mechanical inventions which were creating both an industrial and an intellectual revolution. Men everywhere were embracing two new congenial dogmas, that progress was inevitable and that man was essentially good.<br /><br /> “These two doctrines became the fundamentals of the Social Gospel and the impetus to a shift in faith from God to man, from eternity to time, from the individual to the group, individual conversions to social coercion, and from the church to the state. The main inspiration of the new movement was non-Christian, and from the beginning it drifted readily into doctrines increasingly removed from biblical faith.<br /><br /> “Both Unitarianism and Transcendentalism were a part of the blooming of this spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson became a patron saint of the liberal Protestant, and Emerson’s dogma of an immanent God inherent in nature, and of man who partakes of God to the extent that he himself is divine, became an important dogma to the new movement.<br /><br /> “The pagan origin of the Social Gospel was from the beginning apparent in its readiness to sacrifice Christian faith to the new order. As early as 1873, for example, the Unitarian, Octavius Brooks Frothingham, published <em>The Religion of Humanity</em>, dismissing altogether any faith in God in favor of the new god, man. His challenge, although premature, revealed clearly that the drift was from God to man, and that the new dogma would be preserved through sacrifices in theological faith. Collective man and his society were the new god and the new Jerusalem.” (Faith and Freedom, May 1852.)<br /><br /> From these facts one can readily see how the pagan rationalistic philosophy, which flourished in European universities and theological schools in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, paved the way for the so-called Social Gospel. German historical criticism undermined belief in the authority of the Bible and opened the door to humanistic interpretations of religion and life. Prominent clergymen lost the biblical concept of individual responsibility and began to apply the collectivist idea to the interpretation of Christian teachings. Horace Bushnell, in 1847, published his book Christian Nurture, in which he applied John Locke’s theory of environmentalism to religious experience.<br /><br /> Concerning his work, Irving E. Howard says:<br /><br /> “Instead of converting the individual by evangelism, Bushnell argued, children should be molded by a religious environment. Apart from the obvious fact that children should be taught religion, this was the beginning of an idea that formed the core of the Social Gospel. Instead of the converted individual changing his environment, a changed environment was supposed to convert the individual. It is not difficult to conclude from this, the Social Gospel viewpoint, that the environment, not the individual, is responsible for human behavior.”<br /><br /> Twelve years later Darwin’s <em>Origin of Species</em> appeared and, it was thought by some theologians, put a prop under man’s revolt against the authority of the Scriptures. “The Puritan tradition leaned toward science,” comments the Reverend Howard on this point, “and by the 1880’s the majority of the clergy in this tradition had adjusted their thinking to Darwinism. They drew from the Darwinian theory the optimistic conclusion that an immanent God was at work in history evolving by slow process the Kingdom of God on earth. This furnished the Social Gospel with its philosophy of history.”<br /><br /> Next in the development of the Social Gospel was the idea of using the force of the state to bring about social righteousness. This idea was introduced at a conference at Saratoga, New York, in 1885, attended by such notables as Washington Gladden, Simon Patten, Edwin F. A. Seligman, Edmund J. James, John Bates Clark, Richard T. Ely, Andrew D. White and Woodrow Wilson. Some of these men “were fresh from graduate studies in Germany where they had become enamored with Bismarck’s use of the state in the area of human welfare.”<br /><br /> In 1889, Gladden spoke on “Christian Socialism” at the National Council of Congregational Churches. At that time he said:<br /><br /> “It begins to be clear that Christianity is not individualism. The Christian has encountered no deadlier foe during the last century than that individualistic philosophy which underlies the competitive system.”<br /><br /> Josiah Strong was another exponent of this “nameless drift away from individualism”, yet he said in Our Country, published in 1885, “Socialism attempts to solve the problem of suffering without eliminating the factor of sin.”<br /><br /> Thus we see how Socialism occupied the minds of men almost an hundred years ago. In 1889, an Episcopal minister, William Dwight Porter Bliss, was so influenced by Henry George’s <em>Progress and Poverty</em> and Edward Bellamy’s <em>Looking Backward</em> that he organized the Society of Christian Socialists consisting of about twenty ministers representing the Episcopalian, Congregational, Unitarian, Universalist, Baptist, Methodist and other denominations. A monthly journal published by the Reverend Bliss declared its purpose in the first issue as follows:<br /><br /> “Business itself today is wrong…it is based on competitive strife for profits….But this is the exact opposite of Christianity….We must change the system.”<br /><br /> Under the influence of the Baptist, Walter Rauschenbusch, and other intellectual lights at the dawn of the twentieth century, the Social Gospel began to take firm root in most of the large Protestant denominations. Official organizations were set up in the churches to advance the Social Gospel. One of the first was the Presbyterian Department of Church and Labor of the Board of Home Missions. In 1901, the National Council of the Congregational Church founded a Labor Committee. The Federation for Social Service was organized by the Methodist Episcopal Church (North) in 1907. The next year thirty-three denominations organized The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America and adopted a Social Creed much like that of the Methodists. 1912 saw the beginning of the interdenominational “Men and Religion Forward Movement,” which advocated government ownership of land, mines, water and other resources.<br /><br /> During the early 1920’s, there was a temporary reaction against socialism which led the “social gospelers ” to shift their emphasis from class conflict to international and interracial affairs. This was a period marked by countless peace organizations and spurious racial propaganda. The ineffective League of Nations was hailed by the Federal Council of Churches as “an international manifestation of the Kingdom of God.”<br /><br /> Then came the economic crash of 1929. It provided a most favorable opportunity for the spread of socialism. As Irving E. Howard aptly says, “During the depression, a reawakened Social Gospel found the time ripe for its message of sanctified covetousness.”<br /><br /> In 1934, delegates to the National Council of Congregational-Christian Churches established a Council for Social Action to carry out the program set forth in the following resolutions:<br /><br /> Therefore be it resolved: That we set ourselves to work toward:<br /><br />1) The abolition of the profit system, the elimination of its incentives and habits, the legal forms by which it supports, and the moral ideas by which it justifies itself.<br />2) The inauguration of a thoroughly planned and organized social economy, which apply all our natural and human resources directly to the meeting of human needs, in pursuit of values, democratically chosen: which will,<br />a) Adjust production to measured consumption requirements, and maintain and extend social services --- health, education, recreation and insurance for all.<br />b) Eliminate private ownership in the means of production and distribution wherever such private ownership interferes with the success of a planned social economy, making profit unnecessary and impossible.<br />c) End unemployment, abolish poverty, enable maximum prevention of disease and crime, and stimulate the fullest development of the arts and sciences. Be it further resolved: That this Council urge that the members of our Fellowship increasingly seek to understand and cooperate with the forces and groups making for the above changes in our society.<br /> The Council for Social Action was an extension of the functions of the Social Relations Commission. In “A Proposal for the General Council,” published in the Advance for May 10, 1934, Dr. Arthur E. Holt said:<br /><br /> “With these considerations in mind, it would seem appropriate that the Department of Social Relations be lifted to the rank of a major society in the denominational structure, taking rank alongside the societies which represent church establishment extension at home and abroad; that it be equipped with resources and personnel comparable to the magnitude of the demands upon it.”<br /><br /> Immediately the new Council for Social Action went into high gear, with the same personnel, organization and program as the old Social Relations Commission. Hubert C. Herring became director of the Council for Social Action; two of his assistants, Miss Helen G. Murray and Miss Katherine Terrill, were formerly coworkers in the Department of Social Relations.<br /><br /> It is important to know how these directors of the Council for Social Action propose to accomplish the ends outlined in the resolutions adopted by the General Council. Therefore, we shall let them speak for themselves on the subject. In a News Letter for April 1, 1934, put out by the Department of Social Relations, Miss Murray refers to a speech made by Mary Van Kleeck and discusses it in part as follows:<br /><br /> “In conclusion Miss Van Kleeck drew a picture of a classless society where there will be production for use instead of for profit, the only way out of our difficulties, using the Soviet Union as an example not only of how things must be managed, but also of how power is to be taken from the exploiting class. It is primarily a struggle of the workers against their exploiters, she maintained, and in this struggle Christian people should be on the side of the exploited --- not to give leadership which must be in the hands of the workers themselves, but to serve quite humbly under their direction.”<br /><br /> On June 23, 1934, Mr. Herring delivered an address to some nineteen hundred delegates to the General Council in Oberlin, Ohio, on this subject, “A Crusading Church in Days of Revolution.” His address was printed in full in the Advance for July 5th and 12th, 1934. It is so amazing, so revealing, that we quote at some length:<br /><br /> “It is revolution. The old patterns are torn up. Rugged individualism, the sacred right of capitalism, the vaunted right of a man to run his business as he sees fit without regard to the rights of society, are dead….<br /><br /> “I am not speaking as a protagonist of the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt. The New Deal represents a gallant and chivalrous effort to meet the challenge, and to save in orderly and peaceful fashion something out of the wreckage of our capitalistic order….<br /><br /> “I marvel at the logic of those who damn the New Deal….<br /><br /> “We cannot turn back. Roosevelt’s New Deal, halting and shifting as it may be, is a halfway house along the road which leads to a new ideal of the democratic state.<br /><br /> “Toward what are we to work? Is it the state in which a revived and controlled capitalism shall be enthroned? Is it the socialist state? I dislike labels, especially labels redolent of European conflict and experience. I am not afraid of the word socialism, nor are you. The ideas comprised by the word are the ideas which steadily push toward the fore….<br /><br /> “Assembled amid the ruins of a bankrupt society, we can be sure that the future holds a very different kind of state than any we have known. We may not like the idea of change. We may hanker for the old fireside and the old slippers, but the fireplace no longer draws, and the slippers are lost. Mr. Insull took them away from us.<br /><br /> “We can but conjecture as to the blueprint of the new society. It is dangerous to prophesy, but what, after all, are speeches for if not for conjecture and prophecy? Let me, then, suggest some of the directions in which we may be embarked.<br /><br /> “First, we are definitely headed toward the totalitarian state….The state will increasingly become supreme, and the rights of the individual will correspondingly decrease. In such a state, individual freedom will be disciplined and regimented. This may be distasteful, but it is inevitable….Social control of the means of production is a clear postulate of democracy….<br /> <br /> “Second, we hope to move toward an increasingly democratic state….<br /><br /> “Third, we will move toward new motives. The profit motive rules supreme in the industrial era. The profit motive stands bankrupt, shivering and shaking as the chill winds of economic revolution bear down upon it. The day of profit is done, in any such sense as the word has been used during the past one hundred years. The assumption by the state of the principle of responsibility for the welfare of all its citizens carries the corollary of increased taxation. The makers of profit, on the one hand, create a national economic situation in which from ten to fifty million do not share in the profits. The state turns upon the profit-makers and cuts ten percent, twenty percent, seventy-five percent from their profits in order to equalize the load. This happens today. The next step is already apparent. That state says to the steel master, You must use more men, each man will work less hours, each man will receive more pay. The state goes on to say, You must cut your executive salaries, you must limit dividends, you must coordinate your production with your competitors. If this does not work --- this controlled and regimented capitalism --- the time will soon come when the state will say to the steel master, Your business is no longer yours; you will move out and the state will move in. You do not like the picture? It does not matter. The logic of events will transcend our likings.”<br /><br /> It must have been in the autumn of that same fateful year that the Mid-West Regional Meeting of Congregational Churches convened in Grinnell, Iowa. Mr. Herring arrived from the meeting somewhat travel-stained, having come directly from Mexico City, and was received with the acclaim of a warrior returning from a victorious and decisive battle. Shortly before this, newspapers had carried reports of Leon Trotsky’s flight to Mexico. We learned later that Hubert Herring, along with Nathan Straus of New York and a few more radical Protestants and Jews, whose names do not come to mind at this time, had been on a pilgrimage to the Mexican retreat of the late Jewish Communist Trotsky (real name Bronstein).<br /><br /> The enigmatic Dr. Edward A. Steiner then held a professorship in Grinnell College and was one of the principal speakers at the conference. Just what common purpose created a bond of fellowship between Straus, Herring, Steiner, Trotsky and company may very well be known by scrutinizing the points quoted from Herring’s speech. The air at Grinnell was charged with something indefinable and evil; with whisperings and sly meetings of small groups; with strange sayings from the lecture platform which had no place in the thinking of loyal Christian citizens of the United States.<br /><br /> It is significant that one of the main plebiscites sent out by the Council for Social Action for the signature of all pastors and church members was a pledge that they would never take up arms in defense of the United States, even in the case of attack by foreign country. So, the Council for Social Action “was lifted to the rank of a major society” for the purpose of selling a program of revolution to the churches. It is almost unbelievable that American Christians would give their approval to such treasonable acts against God and country.<br /><br /> Let no one think, however, that the Congregational-Christian Church is alone in permitting such treachery. We merely use it as an example of what has happened in many denominations, both large and small. At the recent Quadrennial Conference of Methodist Churches, the delegates demanded that the Methodist Federation for Social Action (or Service) drop the word “Methodist” and move out of the Methodist headquarters building. If memory serves us rightly, a similar move was attempted years ago, yet apparently no change was made to the organization’s policy. Many Methodist pastors and laymen are rising up against the Federation but, unless certain Marxist bishops are removed from seats of authority, there will probably be little change in the status of the offending organization.<br /><br /> As a matter of fact, the Federal Council of Churches --- now the National Council of the Churches of Christ --- has been dominated from its beginning by a strong, aggressive left-wing group that advocates the complete program of radical socialism. This minority presumes to speak for 320,000 Protestants, who have never authorized it to speak for them on any subject whatever. Nevertheless, this element always manages to take over the educational work of the churches and the publicity for everything concerning them. Consequently, a whole generation of Christian youth has been brought up under the baneful influence of socialism, internationalism, and poppycock racialism, disguised as social aspects of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. By such means the secret plotters provide a religious background to conceal their real goal of world government or, more accurately, international dictatorship.<br /><br /> Congregationalists too are now rising up to protest the trends and coercion of the Social Gospel, but, like Rip Van Winkle, they are twenty years behind the march of events. Twenty years for the sowing of tares; twenty years for them to blossom and bear their evil fruit --- and what will the harvest be?<br /><br /> In a recent brochure, “<em>Congregationalism and the Social Gospel</em>,” Howard Conn, Minister of Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota, writes:<br /><br /> “There is moral objection to the use of denominational funds for propaganda purposes. Such monies are raised from the membership-at-large, and ought not to be appropriated by any group to be used as propaganda in opposition to the convictions of many of the donors….<br /><br /> “The Council for Social Action should be prohibited from all lobbying activity, from testifying before Congressional subcommittees, and from attempting to speak in behalf of the Congregational Churches. Any such activities as these are a violation of our principle of the autonomy and independence of the local parishes. No person or group can speak responsibly or authoritatively for us….<br /><br /> “Therefore it is organically wrong for the CSA to speak in behalf of the Congregational Churches. It is wrong even when the Council tries to make clear that it speaks only for itself because the impression given is that this agency is in some way spokesman for a great body of one million Congregationalists. The distinctive genius of Congregationalists is that they will have such spokesman.”<br /><br /> In Matthew it states:<br /><br /> ”Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” (Matt. 7:15-16.)<br /><br /> At last the fruits of the Social Gospel are revealing the nature of its promoters. They stand exposed as wolves in sheep’s clothing. Their evil deeds are finally catching up with them. Irving E. Howard puts it this way: “The Social Gospel has been challenged to produce its intellectual and ethical credentials --- and it has none.”<br /><br /> Socialism never could have taken root in Christian society if it had not been propagated by the clergy. If church leaders had stood firmly on biblical principles and denounced the Social Gospel for the false teaching that it is, no other influence within or without could have induced Christian citizens to accept the doctrines and policies that threaten our nation today.<br /><br /> Some people, for instance, have been led to believe that the social aspect of Christ’s Gospel require the elimination of nationalism. But nothing could be farther from the truth. What, indeed, would be the consequences to the Gospel itself if national entity should be destroyed? One can find the answer to that question by noting what is happening to the churches in countries which have already lost their national character. A whole nation pays the price when its church leaders are sold a false bill of goods.<br /><br /> Walter R. Courtenay, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Nashville, Tennessee, said in one of his sermons:<br /><br /> “I have a feeling that, if Jackson and Jefferson should visit the Democrats in Washington today, they would challenge about 85 percent of them to duels in the cherry orchards within the next twenty –four hours. I cannot imagine these true Americans feeling at home with the present administration or feeling that the wise men who are leading us to Statism and a ‘planned’ (Socialist) economy are Americans save by birth.”<br /><br /> We heartily agree with this statement. However, the picture is incomplete. If preachers like John Wesley, Whitefield, and Charles G. Finney should visit our churches today, they would challenge them to unfrock all socialistic clerics and boot them out of Christian pulpits. This would give our elected representatives in Washington the moral support they need to deal with the nation’s enemies. Too often they have felt the pressure of the church against them in their battle to hold the line for constitutional government and national sovereignty.<br /><br /> It is interesting to observe that the social gospelers --- those who graft the branch of rational theology on the vine of Marxism and loudly decry the evils of the profit motive --- are most eager to hold positions which make them the recipients of other people’s tainted profits. What will they do when the tithers and taxpayers no longer have any profits with which to support the parasite?<br />=============================<br />Articles from Biblical Treasures (Volume I) – C. R. Dickey<br /><br />INTRODUCTION<br /><br /> The Staff at Destiny Publishers, having read all the articles written by the late C. R. Dickey (Christina R. Dickey) found in DESTINY Magazines from July 1938 to October 1967, received such a blessing from her writings that we wanted to share the information with all who are seeking God’s wonderful truths. We are hereby publishing all her articles in two volumes, which we believe you will find most inspiring and of genuine interest and value.<br /><br /> Her knowledge of the Scriptures was unbelievable so she must have had a very close association with her Lord, as she certainly became a champion for His cause.<br /><br /> Our late beloved editor, Howard B. Rand, realized her talent as he published many of articles in booklet form.<br /><br /> The reader should take into account the time element when each article was written, which was from the late thirties to the middle sixties. We found her articles to be up to the minute as though she had written them yesterday. Her writings on various subjects are backed up with Scripture verses, as well as with quotes from reliable sources, when making a point. From her writings, the Lord surely made use of her God-given talents.<br /><br /> Although we do not have any knowledge of her background, we do know that she was a Congregational minister. Her sermons given must have been of interest and value to her congregation. We are sure her articles contained in this book will do the same.Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-35555493951274737472009-11-28T21:11:00.001-08:002009-11-28T21:11:26.218-08:00DOUBLE Dog Dare Ya!<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosethistleartworks/4142961784/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2611/4142961784_9e36903f5c_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosethistleartworks/4142961784/">DOUBLE Dog Dare Ya!</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/rosethistleartworks/">rosethistleartworks</a></span><br clear="all" /><p>Xoie on a freezing day, goes for the double dog dare!<br /><br />*amazingly . . . her tongue did not stick.</p>Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-10054997928487816132009-11-26T17:26:00.000-08:002010-01-24T22:14:41.453-08:00LIMITING GOD article by CR DickeyLIMITING GOD<br /><br /> Among the magnificent peaks of the Absaroka Mountains in Montana there are many beautiful lakes. Some of them are nestled in the very top of the peaks. Shimmering there in the shadows of clouds and trees, they create the illusion of having wafted out of the heavens through rainbow mist to crown the gleaming, snow-capped mountains with halos.<br /><br /> One of the most interesting of these pools in the sky is Mystic Lake. It is thousands of feet above sea level and men have not yet been able to plumb its depth. But men did become aware of the dormant energy hidden beneath the surface of its deep placid waters. In order to use that energy, hardy engineers hauled machinery up the mountain and built a power plant to harness and distribute the vast resources. Then they released water from the lake and sent it tumbling down the steep, rugged slope. Energy thus created now supplies electricity and irrigation for many square miles of fertile valleys below. The process continues year to year, but the lake itself remains calm, and its resources apparently undiminished, after meeting the requirements of numerous homes and fields.<br /><br /> One of the things about this great power plant which particularly fascinates an observer is the ease with which the unleashed forces of nature can be controlled by man’s mechanical skill. A foreman delights to show the visitor how quickly he can manipulate the mighty forces at his command; by touching an electric button, he sets levers in motion that shut off the power entirely, or release it in any quantity desired.<br /><br /> Mystic Lake is a miniature illustration of the unknown, limitless resources of God. Certainly man has not measured the power of God, nor has he ever used it except in a very limited way, although it is not God who does the limiting. Man will not apply himself to learning the secrets of tapping spiritual energy with the same determination and assurance of success that lead him to the mastery of dynamos and other methods of producing physical energy.<br /><br /> A few years ago Charles P. Steinmetz went to Wellesley Hills to visit Roger W. Babson. In the course of conversation, according to a report in Utica Observer-Dispatch, Babson asked his guest, “What line of research will see the greatest development during the next fifty years?”<br /><br /> The scientist was quiet for several minutes. “The great discoveries,” he answered finally, “will be made along spiritual lines. We scientific men have spent our lives studying physical forces. And now --- having made the most sensational discoveries in the history of the world --- we learn that our knowledge has not brought people happiness. Material things will never bring happiness. Scientists must now turn their laboratories over to the study of God, and prayer, and the spiritual forces. Here is the field where miracles are going to occur. Spiritual power is the greatest of the undeveloped powers, and has the greatest future.”<br /><br /> Coming from a man of science, that is a remarkable statement. Spiritual power is the greatest of the undeveloped powers, said Steinmetz. What an unconscious rebuke to all of us who confess to be followers of Christ! Why is spiritual power still undeveloped after nineteen hundred years of Christianity? The answer is couched in Psalm 78, verse 41:<br /><br /> ”Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.”<br /><br /> They --- the people --- God’s covenant people --- limited Him. The entire Psalm reviews Israel’s mountain peak experiences for the very purpose of showing the many times and ways they limited the operation of God’s power and thwarted the consummation of His great plans for their future. The Psalmist reminds us:<br /><br /> ”He [the Lord] established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children: that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments: And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not steadfast with God.” (Ps. 78:5-8.)<br /><br /> Furthermore, the writer declared that the children of Ephraim had been defeated in the day of battle because:<br /><br /> ”They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in His law; and forgat His works, and His wonders that He had shewed them.” (Ps. 78:10-11.)<br /><br /> When the covenant was confirmed at Mount Sinai, the people vowed, “All that the Lord hath spoken we will do.” The Psalmist testifies that even though God, being full of compassion, had marvelously kept His part of the contract, Israel was notoriously faithless except for brief periods of repentance after severe chastisement:<br /><br /> ”When He slew them, then they sought Him and they returned and inquired early after God. And they remembered that God was their Rock, and the high God their Redeemer. Nevertheless they did flatter Him with their mouth, and they lied unto Him with their tongues. For their heart was not right with Him, neither were they stedfast in His covenant….Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.” (Ps. 78:34-41.)<br /><br /> It is obvious from a study of Psalm 78, and many other chapters, that obedience to God unlocks floodgates and releases His power through men; conversely, disobedience limits the power of God to energize, enlighten and bless mankind according to His expressed desire and purpose. We can find little to condone the failures of Israel in the distant past; and, if that be true, surely there is even less excuse for limiting God in these latter days when He has revealed Himself in Jesus Christ and manifested His power through the Holy Spirit.<br /><br /> Human limitation of Divine power began in the early morning hours of recorded history. Limiting God was a cardinal sin in the earth long before the Israelites provoked and grieved Yahoveh in the Wilderness. It began in Eden, when our first parents dared to oppose the Divine Will, thereby frustrating the advancement of the original perfect order which its Creator had pronounced good. In so doing they shut off the glory of God’s illimitable power and consigned their posterity to “shallows and miseries.” We suffer the consequences to this day. On the other hand, the bow in the cloud has illumined the sky with prismatic beauty since the time of Noah, as a reminder of one man’s complete obedience to the holy purpose of God.<br /><br /> As individuals we continue to limit God. Notwithstanding all the compassionate efforts of Father, Son and Holy Spirit to show us the way, we have not recaptured the knowledge of utilizing the Father’s boundless resources. We accept the idea that “with God all things are possible,” forgetting that He permits us to limit Him by the exercise of our free wills. Each of us can shut out the Spirit of power from his own life, much as the engineer can control the volume of energy which flows from the mountain lake.<br /><br /> Doubtless, unbelief and disobedience are the most common obstacles to the development of spiritual power today, as in the time when the poet wrote Psalm 78 --- so little has the heart of man changed during the intervening centuries. Disobedience is usually the result of unbelief, since one rarely disobeys with willful intent until he first comes to doubt God’s Word. “All things are possible,” said Jesus, “to him that believeth” (Mark 9:23). What man has sounded the depth of that statement? Who is strong enough in faith and courage to test it fully? Jesus Himself is the only one who never limited God, yet He said to His disciples:<br /><br /> ”He that believeth on Me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father.” (John 14:12.)<br /><br /> There is one truth in the New Testament which is emphasized by all its inspired writers, and that is no man can appropriate spiritual life and power save through his acceptance of Jesus Christ as the resurrected Son of God. Again Jesus declared:<br /><br /> ”Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you.” (Acts 1:8.)<br /><br /> Now upon whom does the Holy Spirit come? We know that He comes only upon disciples who have first confessed their faith in Christ as the Son of God. When Christ becomes the author and finisher of a man’s faith, he is then ready to receive power from on High --- power to become --- and power to overcome:<br /><br /> ”As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name.” (John 1:12.)<br /><br /> “This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?” (I John 5:4-5.)<br /><br /> What amazing forces any humble man, woman or child can release from the throne of God by simply believing and doing all that the Bible teaches!<br /><br /> We are prone to reject spiritual forces because we cannot see and understand them. How inconsistent! One does not refuse to turn on his radio, although he can neither see nor explain the power which makes it work; one does not turn a deaf ear to the music of a great organ, even though he cannot see the wind and understand the electric energy which drives it so harmoniously through the pipes.<br /><br /> Someone has related a little story that illustrates the point. A tourist in Arizona accidentally backed his car off a bank into a deep hole. As there was nothing else to be done, he walked to the nearest garage for help. The place was close to a railroad track and, while the traveler was away, a work train came along with a big lifting crane. The train stopped and the crew let down the crane, picked up the automobile, lifted it out of the hole and set it in the road. Then the train went on its way. What was utterly impossible for one man was just a little amusement for the trainmen with their mighty steel lifter and giant locomotive. Soon the tourist returned and to his astonishment found his car in the road, ready to be driven off. He looked all around but could not imagine how it got there. He could see no signs of human hands, nor tracks of human feet anywhere; it looked miraculous, very mysterious to say the least. However, he accepted the miracle, got in his car and drove away rejoicing.<br /><br /> If we could fathom the tremendous forces which the Almighty commands, we would see that what we call miracles are but the operation of natural laws unrevealed to the mind of man. When we refuse to appropriate spiritual power because we cannot comprehend its laws, we are as foolish as the tourist would have been had he refused to ride in his car until he understood just how it got out of the ditch.<br /><br /> A God of love desires to bear the burdens of His people. He invites us to cast our cares upon Him. But we can’t turn them loose. We trudge through life weighted with all the imaginary woes of the past, present and future. We trust God to about the same extent as a well-meaning woman in the Texas Panhandle who, when asked if all varieties of crops had ever failed in the same year replied: “No --- but we are always expecting them to.”<br /><br /> As individuals we limit the desire of God to answer our prayers and bless us according to His gracious promises. Jesus taught:<br /><br /> I am the door: by Me if any man enter in he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.” (John 10:9.)<br /><br /> That is, he shall have access to the Lord’s abundant store house:<br /><br /> ”Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened….What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them….Whatsoever ye shall ask in My Name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in My Name, I will do it.” (Matt. 7:7-8; Mark 11:24; John 14:13-14.)<br /><br /> Who can measure the scope of those munificent words? Who really dares to try them?<br /><br /> Blind Bartimaeus sat begging on the highway between Jericho and Jerusalem. Jesus passed that way and said to him:<br /><br /> ”What wilt thou that I should do unto thee?” (Mark 10:51a.)<br /><br /> Prompted by faith, newly born but undaunted, the blind man replied:<br /><br /> ”Lord, that I might receive my sight.” (Mark 10:51b.)]/b]<br /><br /> If the average Christian of today stood before Jesus with the same affliction and opportunity as Bartimaeus, it is highly probable that the nearest he could come to the blind beggar’s faith would be to ask the Lord for a Seeing Eye dog. However, we honor God most by asking for the seemingly impossible things, especially if the motive is to exalt Him rather than to gratify our own selfish ends. James explains in his letter why we do not have the things we desire:<br /><br /> ”Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume upon your lusts [spend it in your pleasures].” (James 4:2-3.)<br /><br /> Jesus could well say to us, as He said to the people of ancient Judea:<br /><br /> ”O faithless and perverse generation.” (Matt. 17:17.)<br /><br /> As a nation we are limiting God. Even now we are shutting off the only power that can bring us the national blessings for which we sigh. After all, the nation is merely the individual multiplied, or “writ large,” as someone has said. What we are individually determines what our nation is to be. Just as God has promised to bear the burdens of the individual, so He has pledged to strengthen and uphold the nation that trusts in Him. Through the prophet God is speaking now to the nations of modern Israel:<br /><br /> ”Hearken unto Me, O Jacob and Israel, My called; I am He; I am the first, I also am the last. Mine hand also hath laid the foundations of the earth, and My right hand hath spanned the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together. All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear….Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. O that thou hadst hearkened to My commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea.” (Isa. 48:12-18.)<br /><br /> In these perilous days of war, countless hearts are in anguish because peace has fled from the earth. Is there no balm in Gilead? no remedy for our besetting sin? no way to enlist the power of God in behalf of Christian people? Yes, there is a remedy --- a way out. It was given to one of Israel’s great kings.<br /><br /> ”The Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to Myself for an house of sacrifice. If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people; if My people, which are called by My Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” (II Chron. 7:12-14.)<br /><br /> Are the people of America ready and willing to meet these conditions? or will some future poet lament our departed glory in the words of the Psalmist --- “They limited the Holy One of Israel” (Ps. 78:41).<br /><br /> When the French went to the Isthmus of Panama to dig a canal, they took doctors, nurses and medicines, but fever took the doctors and nurses along with the workmen, so the French soon gave up the task. When Americans went to Panama, under the leadership of General Goethals, they too took doctors, nurses, and medicines; but they took also dredges for draining the swamps. By stopping the breeding of germ-carrying insects, the enemies of man were overcome and the canal was dug. In appreciation of his great achievement, someone has paid this tribute to General Goethals:<br /><br /> “A man went down to Panama<br /> Where many a man had died,<br /> To slit the sliding mountains<br /> And lift the eternal tide;<br /> A man stood up in Panama<br /> And the mountains stood aside.”<br /><br /> When the redeemed of the Lord stand up in Israel and tap the secret springs of power from on High, then the fullness of God will flow into the nations with more happiness, beauty and progress than this old earth has ever known. Here, indeed is the field where miracles are going to occur, as the scientist predicted.<br />Articles from Biblical Treasures (Volume I) – C. R. Dickey<br /><br />INTRODUCTION<br /><br /> The Staff at Destiny Publishers, having read all the articles written by the late C. R. Dickey (Christina R. Dickey) found in DESTINY Magazines from July 1938 to October 1967, received such a blessing from her writings that we wanted to share the information with all who are seeking God’s wonderful truths. We are hereby publishing all her articles in two volumes, which we believe you will find most inspiring and of genuine interest and value.<br /><br /> Her knowledge of the Scriptures was unbelievable so she must have had a very close association with her Lord, as she certainly became a champion for His cause.<br /><br /> Our late beloved editor, Howard B. Rand, realized her talent as he published many of articles in booklet form.<br /><br /> The reader should take into account the time element when each article was written, which was from the late thirties to the middle sixties. We found her articles to be up to the minute as though she had written them yesterday. Her writings on various subjects are backed up with Scripture verses, as well as with quotes from reliable sources, when making a point. From her writings, the Lord surely made use of her God-given talents.<br /><br /> Although we do not have any knowledge of her background, we do know that she was a Congregational minister. Her sermons given must have been of interest and value to her congregation. We are sure her articles contained in this book will do the same.Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-56890467606860743312009-11-24T12:05:00.000-08:002009-11-24T12:09:51.008-08:00America Won't Back Down<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/B87DowcADxs&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/B87DowcADxs&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x006699&color2=0x54abd6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-967220627873557057.post-72149899329868221442009-11-16T08:53:00.001-08:002009-11-16T08:53:10.221-08:00Rainbow Sparkle Snow in Colorado<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosethistleartworks/4109013145/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2662/4109013145_2f6ae2ddff_m.jpg" alt="" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosethistleartworks/4109013145/">Rainbow Sparkle Snow in Colorado</a> <br />Originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/rosethistleartworks/">rosethistleartworks</a></span><br clear="all" /><p>November snow on the high prairie pasture</p>Gina - RoseThistleArtworkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12843227064479574334noreply@blogger.com0