Are We Listening?

Are We Listening?
By Gary Kah
http://www.garykah.org/

On August 23, the east coast of the United States was shaken by a sizeable 5.9 earthquake. Although the quake was centered near Richmond, Virginia, it left its most significant mark on our nation’s capitol where two of America’s most treasured landmarks were extensively damaged. The cracks in the Washington Monument are so severe; it has been closed down indefinitely while engineers and architects figure out what to do.

The National Cathedral was also hit hard. This exquisite structure – sometimes referred to as “the Nation’s Church” – had three of its pinnacles broken off by the intense shaking. The quake was immediately followed by Hurricane/TS Irene, which lasted for days and prevented any work on the structure from being done. When contractors finally scrambled to make repairs, the crane they were using was overturned by the ferocious winds of yet another tropical storm (Lee). This occurred only a few days before an “interfaith” service was scheduled to be held at the cathedral to commemorate 9/11. As a result of the earthquake and ensuing storms, the service at this location had to be cancelled. All a mere coincidence? Or, was God sending a not-so-subtle message?

Think about it. America’s tallest symbol, a Masonically-inspired obelisk modeled after the obelisks of ancient Egypt (which represented the phallus and were at the center of Egypt’s occult fertility worship), and our nation’s most famous church which had been the site of numerous “interfaith” gatherings in recent years – both shut down simultaneously. A major earthquake, a devastating hurricane, and a relentless tropical storm, all targeting the same area within two weeks!

I believe God was showing His disdain for America’s pagan practices, including blasphemous worship where so-called “Christian” leaders share the platform with leaders of other religions, making their false gods appear to be on an equal footing with the only true God. Our God does not want to be dishonored by being worshipped alongside demon gods who are His adversaries. No nation whose leaders engage in such practices will be blessed.

I further believe that the Lord was issuing a warning. The United Nations’ vote on the future of Israel – possibly embracing the Palestinian Authority and its claimed territories as a member country in the UN (in effect, calling for the unilateral creation of a Palestinian state, with or without Israel’s approval) – was only a couple of weeks away. Would the Obama Administration heed the warning, or would it support the UN resolution to divide Israel?

As of today, the UN vote has not been held, and the Administration has threatened to veto the resolution if it comes up. However, in a speech to the UN General Assembly on September 21, Barack Obama re-emphasized his commitment to a two-state solution involving the creation of an independent Palestinian nation. Obama stated, “The Palestinian people deserve a state of their own…The question isn’t the goal that we seek — the question is how do we reach that goal?”1

Although he stressed the importance of an agreement that would also ensure Israel’s security, his words are nullified by the fact that Israel would be giving up its biblical covenant lands to the Palestinian Authority, which is committed to its destruction. The truth is, when given an opportunity to have their own self-governing state (in Gaza), 60 percent of Palestinians voted for Hamas leadership; which has as its chief, and openly-stated goal, the complete annihilation of Israel.

Obama made every effort it seemed to placate the concerns of Jews who have grown increasingly suspect over his demands on Israel. But in the end, his speech changed nothing. He is still supportive of the same end result – the creation of a Palestinian state from Israel’s land. The only difference is that his “peace plan” has suddenly been made to appear reasonable due to the more radical proposal recently delivered to the UN by PA President Abbas.


What’s Next: An Occupation?

By the time most of you read this article, America may be facing its next potential crisis. On October 6th, left wing radical groups are planning to converge on Washington D.C. to launch a “Cairo-style” occupation of Freedom Plaza. The man responsible for spearheading this large-scale protest is David Swanson.

Swanson is a very capable organizer with years of political experience. Along with being the Washington Director of Democrats.com and the co-founder of the After Downing Street Coalition, he has worked as Press Secretary for the Dennis Kucinich 2004 campaign, Media Coordinator for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as Communications Coordinator for ACORN.2 Generally speaking, he is allied with the most liberal and pro-socialist elements of the Democratic Party.

In an interview with Press TV Swanson said,

We are going to occupy Freedom Plaza in the middle of Washington D.C., the name of which is very similar of course to Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt, and from there we are going to expand to shut down offices, buildings, streets, hallways, to nonviolently, strictly nonviolently resist what our government is doing.3

In his initial announcement, Swanson wrote:

A coalition of organizations and prominent individuals is announcing at http://october2011.org a plan to begin a people’s occupation of Washington D.C., on October 6th, to build it into something larger on the 7th, 8th, and 9th, and to not leave until we are satisfied…we now have a chance to have a say, in solidarity with others around the world, with success just as likely – if just as shocking to those in power – as with past U.S. people’s movements and the recent advances in Tunisia and Egypt. This will not be another rally and march on a Saturday, make home movies, pat ourselves on the back, and go home. We are coming to Washington to stay.4

The obvious questions are: Will this effort gain enough traction to become a major event, or will only a few thousand people show up and quickly be disillusioned by the lack of interest? Secondly, if hundreds of thousands of protesters indeed show up and wreak havoc in the nation’s capitol, growing in number and power each day, how would the federal government respond? Could this lead to a declaration of a national emergency, followed by martial law?

We certainly hope and pray this doesn’t happen. However, the situation bears close watching. Christians and conservatives need to stay on their toes and be prepared just in case.


The 2012 Presidential Race

Presuming there will be a national election next year, the competition among Republican candidates for US President has stiffened since Texas Governor Rick Perry threw his hat in the ring in August. The timing couldn’t have been worse for Michele Bachmann. She had just pulled off a surprise victory in the Iowa Straw Poll when Perry announced his candidacy. While the timing of his decision may have been a coincidence, it seemed to be calculated to steal Bachmann’s thunder. And, to a large extent it did. Perry’s entrance in the race stole the headlines and took momentum from Bachmann’s campaign.

Interestingly, Rick Perry was formerly a liberal Democrat, even campaigning for Al Gore at one point. While anyone can genuinely change, Perry’s past activities have caused some conservatives to view him with a wary eye. To the dismay of the Tea Party, he has consistently opposed the building of a fence along the US/Mexico border to deter illegal immigration, causing some to wonder if he might support the North American Union once elected President. These concerns become more legitimate when one considers that Perry also attended a meeting of the one-world Bilderberg Group in 2007. While attending a single globalist conference doesn’t mean Perry is supportive of the one-world agenda, it does raise some flags given his liberal past. This is why I am taking a “wait and see” approach with Governor Perry. I do not want to write him off, but I do not totally trust him either. I believe this is how many Christian conservatives feel.

Meanwhile, the other Texas candidate, Ron Paul, has made some excellent points in addressing our nation’s financial dilemma. He understands the history of the Federal Reserve and the agenda behind it and, I believe, would do everything in his power to abolish the Fed and to get us out of unnecessary foreign entanglements if elected. However, he does not strongly address the moral issues that lie at the heart of our nation’s problems. More freedom, although desirable, will not by itself turn America around at this late hour.

Michele Bachmann, on the other hand, holds many of the same positions as Congressman Paul on matters of the economy, taxation, and the Federal Reserve but also sees the importance of standing firm on spiritual matters. Because of this, she poses a unique threat to the Establishment and will continue to be pursued by the left-leaning media. I personally believe she is the real deal and would strongly defend America’s sovereignty while faithfully representing the conservative Christian cause if elected. However, she faces a huge uphill battle.

I also like Herman Cain, who seems to be a godly man with good ideas and business experience; but like Bachmann, he would come under heavy attack from the media if he rises too far in the polls. It is a tragedy that we now live in a country where it is next to impossible to get a true Christian with common sense elected as President!


The Unraveling Economy

While Americans consider their political options, our nation’s economic crisis continues to deepen. During the month of August, for example, home foreclosures soared another 33 percent.5 And, the cost of living, especially in the areas of energy, healthcare, and college education continues to outpace the growth in personal income, steadily lowering our standard of living. (Since the 1980’s, the average cost of a college education has risen more than 600 percent, putting a college degree out of reach for more and more individuals.)6 All of this is putting a greater strain on the American people. The scenario I presented earlier this year seems to be playing out, with oil prices being used to tip the scales.

In an article titled “Watch Oil Prices” I warned that if oil prices remained high through the summer “it could lead to a larger financial crisis – the bursting of the state and municipal debt bubble sometime later this year or in 2012.”

I continued,

…nearly 100 city and state governments are on the brink of bankruptcy as a result of exorbitant and unsustainable debt levels. The coming wave of tax hikes and spending cuts intended to deal with this reality will leave many families and businesses broke, while sending significant numbers of government workers to the unemployment lines. This, in turn, would lead to another round of even more home foreclosures…(March 2011)

This is now beginning to happen. Unless our economy suddenly kicks into overdrive and we witness a near miraculous turn-around, conditions will deteriorate. The fall months have historically been precarious times of crisis. Some economists are holding their breath, hoping we will make it through October and November without a major incident, while keeping a watchful eye on Greece, Italy, and other southern European countries who are on the edge of a financial cliff. The shaky US economy may not be able to withstand a European meltdown if one occurs. One thing that has helped keep the US afloat has been our relatively strong exports; if they suddenly dry up due to imploding foreign markets it will undercut the viability of an economic recovery.

[This just in: The Dow Jones plummeted 391 points today, in part because Lloyd’s – the world’s oldest insurance company – announced it is withdrawing its money from European banks. According to Lloyd’s, the banks are in danger of failing as Europe’s debt crisis worsens. The company’s finance director put it simply: “If you’re worried the government itself might be at risk, then you’re certainly worried the banks could be taken down with them.”7 Not encouraging news to kick off the fall season!]

Sooner or later, I believe a major global crisis will occur. The top movers and shakers who are pushing the one-world agenda will make conditions as bad as necessary to pin the people of America (and the rest of the world) to the wall. Our staggering debt will no doubt be used as blackmail to force us into their desired new world order.

I envision a time of significant financial calamity when global financiers – under the influence of Satan – will support an attractive proposal that would go something like this:

The current system is completely broken and beyond repair. The only solution is a new global financial system which is better suited for today’s increasingly integrated world. If your country joins the new financial order and accepts all of our conditions (which may include a new global currency or unit of exchange), some or all of your nation’s debt will be cancelled. This will enable you to maintain a reasonable standard of living and even prosper over time. The other option: Reject this offer and slide into abject poverty and isolation by the “international community.”

This would be a tempting offer – an apparent way out – for a people who have never experienced truly difficult times but are now faced with potential poverty. How much freedom would Americans be willing to surrender in exchange for the promise of “peace and prosperity”?

It is quite probable that these international elitists – in submission to the Antichrist – would demand possession of our federal lands (including national parks) as collateral against our debt. This would give them virtual control of our natural resources and energy reserves, much of which they already hold through their multinational companies. No matter how attractive this proposal might initially appear on the surface, it would be a trap designed to enslave mankind, with no turning back once it’s accepted. The Antichrist, once in power, would tighten the noose over every area of life.


Listen and Obey

Since the Bible warns that such a time will come (before the Lord returns and brings it to an end), what kind of people should we be? We should live soberly and repentantly, making the most of every opportunity to spread the truth of God – sharing the good news of Jesus Christ far and wide while we can.

Are we as individuals heeding God’s call on our lives? Are we willing to be obedient and fully surrendered to the Lord so He can use us for His purposes in the short time that is left? If you are one who has been holding back, resolve today to pursue the Lord with all your heart! Listen to and obey the words of Jesus: “…Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.” (Mark 12:30) Putting these words of the Savior into practice will enable you to abide in His peace during the turbulent times ahead.

If you have never received Jesus Christ as your Savior, there is no better time to do so than now. You must decide to believe in Him – that He alone can, and will, rescue you from the eternal punishment of your sins. In your own words tell the Lord that you are a sinner and are in need of His forgiveness. Confess your sins to Him; then ask Him to strengthen you in every area of your life – to empower you with the Holy Spirit so you will be able to live obediently and submissively before Him from this day forward. Thank the Lord for loving you enough to die in your place in order that you can have everlasting life. Then, make it your daily heartbeat to love and faithfully serve Him.

http://web.me.com/robblair/GaryKah/Are_We_Listening.html

On Darwinism and Hitlerism

ON DARWINISM AND HITLERISM

(Excerpts from Joshua Youngkin, "Richard Weikart on Darwinism and Hitlerism," Evolution News and Views, September 20, 2011)

In his most recent book, Hitler's Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress, Discovery Institute fellow Richard Weikart lays out a historian's case for the proposition that Adolf Hitler's murderous policies arose from a scientific racism inspired by Charles Darwin's most famous ideas.

According to Weikart, Hitler wasn't an amoral monster, but a frighteningly "moral" one -- "moral" in the sense of principled, of course. Principles can be directed to evil or to good. Hitler was an autocrat who aimed to bring about what seemed to him to be a praiseworthy end, a biological utopia forged in the fiery struggle for life. In Hitler's mind, this world-to-come would be the inevitable result of Natural Selection, a blind and unforgiving process he would merely speed along by expansionist warfare, eugenics, and institutional racism. In Hitler's view, evolutionary progress was so great an end that any means used to achieve it would be moral, even programmatic genocide.

The most ghoulish evils of Nazi foreign and domestic policy were made possible in the first place because Hitler sought to apply Darwinian concepts to the world outside the biology lecture hall. Mere ideas are not to blame for mortal suffering, true, but in light of Hitler's Ethic, the exportation of Darwinian ideas outside the confines of biological study merits close watch.

One academic reviewer, Professor Larry Arnhart, has questioned the causal connection between the thoughts of Charles Darwin and those of Adolf Hitler. By fixing on a trivial truth, Arnhart misses Weikart's main point.

As Arnhart rightly points out, the German-reading Hitler probably did not read the original works of the English-writing Charles Darwin. Hitler no doubt learned Darwinian theory through the mediating influences of fellow German-speakers like Ernst Haeckel. But most people who know about Darwinian theory first become acquainted with it through writers or teachers other than Charles Darwin. I know I did. Even Richard Dawkins became a committed Darwinist well before he read Darwin, as he comments [September 20] in the New York Times.

The point is, however and through whomever Hitler imbibed Darwinian notions he clearly applied them outside their proper place to bring about suffering he sincerely viewed as moral by the "light" of those notions. For this, Weikart puts Hitler on trial, leaving Darwin in the dock awaiting prosecution by another.

(Joshua Youngkin, "Richard Weikart on Darwinism and Hitlerism," Evolution News and Views, September 20, 2011)

Strange Rites: How Secret Societies Serve Satan

Strange Rites: How Secret Societies Serve Satan

William H. Kennedy
September 27, 2011

http://www.williamhkennedy.com/StrangeRites.html


The primary concern of this examination is to demonstrate how elite secret societies are actually fronts for interconnected devil-worshiping cults, which operate to control the spiritual, economic and political destiny of humanity. As a means to prove this extraordinary assertion, a review of the decisive, diabolical rites and ceremonies of these intertwined organizations will be offered, along with photographic evidence to demonstrate cogently their sinister nature.


Freemasonry: Lucifer's Light

Freemasonry has its origins in the medieval craft unions, whose artists and architects designed and constructed the great castles and cathedrals of feudal Europe. By the early 1700s, the Masons had evolved into an occult, secret society composed of upper class intellectuals, who admired the symbolism and ethical teachings of this ancient artisans' fraternity. In 1717, the Freemasonic Grand Lodge of England was formed in London to centralize the affairs of the fellowship. The secret society blossomed -- even several Kings of England were initiated into the brotherhood, which had long abandoned its purely working-class roots. As the British Empire spread, it brought Freemasonry along with it, opening lodges in every corner of the globe. Leading the formation of the United States, Freemasons emerged as revolutionary politicians in colonial America during the late 18th Century. One hundred years later, after the Civil War, Masonry grew in the U.S. with expanded rituals and rankings called "degrees". These and other examples of Masonic ceremonies illustrate the infernal nature of this brotherhood.

The Thirty Three Degrees (or rites) of the Masonic Fraternity posit clear and distinct satanic overtones. Most Masons never advance beyond the third degree, and the truly diabolical aspects of their society emerge in the higher grades.

The actual ceremonies demonstrate the evil nature of Freemasonry itself. For example, the Seventh Degree Ritual requires the Masons to recite what they believe is the secret name of God -- "Jahbulon" -- a combination of the Jewish deity, Jehovah, with the Phoenician demon, Baal, and Egyptian god, Osiris. The difficulty here lays in the fact that Baal required human sacrifice which is something unknown to most lower-level Masons.

The Seventeenth Degree Ritual teaches a secret password -- "Abaddon" -- by which initiates enter the higher stages of spiritual awakening. Abaddon is the Dark Angel of the Bottomless Pit mentioned in Revelation 9:11!

It is also clear that the primary shaper of modern Masonry, General Albert Pike (1809-1891), expressed the fraternity's satanic intent in this chilling account from his opus, Morals and Dogma,

Lucifer, the Son of the Morning! Is it he who bears the Light, and with its splendors Intolerable blinds feeble, sensual, or selfish Souls? Doubt it not! ...

That which we must say to the world is that we worship a god, but it is the god that one adores without superstition. To you, Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this, that you may repeat it to the brethren of the 32nd, 31st and 30th degrees: The Masonic Religion should be, by all of us initiates of the higher degrees, maintained in the Purity of the Luciferian doctrine. If Lucifer were not God, would Adonay and his priests calumniate him?

Yes, Lucifer is God, and unfortunately Adonay is also god...

It should also be noted that Freemasonry was infiltrated by followers of the false Jewish Messiahs Shabbetai Zvi (1626-1676) and his successor Jacob Frank (1726 - 1791). Both of these cult leaders perverted their faith and called for an inversion of Hebrew law wherein orgies, violence and Devil worship would shape the spiritual purview of their devotees. They each also wanted to be crowned as Messiah in Jerusalem after the founding of a Jewish state. Frank realized the futility of such an undertaking and ordered most of his Jewsih followers to convert to Christianity and infiltrate Freemasonry with the eventual goal of forming a Masonic/Frankist nation in Palestine. Members of this sect are called Sabbateans or Frankists.

With the UN declaration of the State of Israel in 1948 part of Frank's sick plan has come into being and the rest may be in the making as you read this. An article entitled British Masons & US Fundies Launch Israeli Apocalypse (Rense: 2000) exposes how the Marquess of Northampton -- one of the richest men in the world and a major leader of London Freemasonry -- is seeking to fulfill a long standing Masonic plan (The Illustrated London News August 28, 1909) to demolish the Dome of the Rock and replace it with a Masonic Lodge. This cabal is a continuation of the Crusades as the primary soldiers of this medieval conflict called the Knights Templar merged with the Freemasons.

Northampton's Italian pal Freemasonic Bro. Giuliano Di Bernardo authored a book whose title says it all despite the back pedaling of Masonic apologists -- Rebuilding the Temple: The Masonic Plan for a New Utopia (1996).

The Marquess is an admitted follower of British Israelism which contends that the English are actually a lost tribe of Israel and the House of Windsor is directly descended from King David and who posses magical powers.

Masonic Grand Pro-Master Spencer "Spenny" Compton has been married and divorced 5 times and is a notorious playboy who is infatuated with the occult -- so much so that he has been dubbed the "Mystic Marquess" by the British press. The peer also has also been linked to Satanist Aleister Crowley's various arcane sects. In a Crowleyesque gesture that would have made Jacob Frank proud, Spenny has engaged in strange public sex acts. As reported in a gossip column in 1976 Lady Annette [wife number 2] while dinning with her Lord had taken off her shirt in a smart restaurant in London and crawled under tables to "liven things up".

Lord Compton is clearly a Sabbatean or at least is living in the spirit of Jacob Frank. In 1995 he founded and heavily funded the Masonic Jerusalem Lodge in Solomon's Groto near the Dome of the Rock with the express purpose of rebuilding the long lost Temple (technically this Lodge is chartered in Italy). It should be noted that the degrees of Masonry include such Hebrew noble titles as "Chief of the Tabernacle", "Master of the Temple", and "Prince of Jerusalem" which clearly demonstrates the Masonic plan to form a neo-Temple based monarchy in the Holy Land.

If Northampton's diabolical agenda reaches fruition it will not be a rebirth of the Holy of Holies destroyed by the Romans but rather the inauguration of a House of Satan operated by perverted Frankist Masons. His ultimate concern could be to rebuild the Temple and crown himself or some member of the British aristocracy as King of Jerusalem. Consider that there are over 6 million Freemasons world wide and if they were to contribute an average of $1000 each that would give them over 1 billion dollars to construct their Temple.

This new monarch will claim to be the Messiah of the Hebrews, Second Coming of Jesus to the Christians and the Imam Madhi (Redeemer) of the Muslims. The Marquess has even hired high ranking Freemason Michael Baigent co-author of Holy Blood, Holy Grail (1982) -- which inspired The DaVinci Code -- as a researcher and Trustee at his Masonic study center. Baigent wrote about this "Saviour-Sovereign" figure who would appeal to all of the Abrahamic Faiths in HBHG on page 428.

Jews of goodwill around the world must recognize this as a sinister Sabbatean plot from the Pit of Hell. Lord Northampton and his esoteric cronies should be banned from ever entering Israel again!




Skull & Bones: The Devils in the Details

When John Quincy Adams became the sixth President of the Untied States, he was so disgusted with the Freemasonic domination of government power that he attempted to ban members of this secret society from holding public office of any kind. In 1832, the elite at Yale University wanted to continue the occult tradition and avoid the outcry stemming from the Masonic Morgan Affair. They petitioned a German university to form a chapter of the Freemasonic Skull and Bones Society. By so doing, they avoided any potential backlash from affiliation with the formal lodge, while retaining the exclusive benefits of mutual aid that comes with secret society membership. Unlike the Freemasons, the Skull and Bones Society did nothing to shroud their satanic worship from acolytes during their initiation rites.

In her exposé of Skull and Bones, entitled Secrets of the Tomb (2006), Yale alumnus Alexandra Robbins illustrates the diabolical nature of this secret society, the membership roles of which include three U.S. Presidents: Howard Taft, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush. Potential members are compelled to lay in a coffin and masturbate in front of the whole sect. Costumed members conduct the various ceremonies. She describes their central rite as follows:

The heart of the initiation ceremony has evolved since the mid-19th Century, when a junior was simply taken before a full member dressed as the Devil, who would strike the initiate in the back with a sword and decree, 'I dub thee Knight of the Skull and Cross Bones.' The ritual was updated sometime in the early 20th century. In the new ceremony the shakers (members dressed as demons) push the initiate to his knees in front of an overturned skull filled with red liquid and force his head toward the pool of 'blood'. To the neophyte's dismay, the crowd implores him, 'Drink it! Drink it! Drink it,' which he must.

The shakers hurry the initiate to someone dressed as the Pope, but not before the Devil whips him in the face with his tail. The initiate bends to kiss the Pope's slippered toe on the skull. When the initiate is brought before a Don Quixote impersonator, who stands just in front of the fireplace with a sword in his right hand, he is pushed once again to his knees, but this time for glory, as the crowd falls silent once again. Quixote taps the junior on the left shoulder, and says, 'By order of our order, I dub thee Knight of Eulogia!'

Robbins also claims that The Skull & Bones Society employs an in house prostitute called the "Bones Whore" and operates a secret island resort where a harem of hookers see to the sexual needs of members during their yearly summer retreat.

In 2001, New York Observer reporter and Yale alumnus, Ron Rossenbaum, secretly filmed other aspects of the Skull and Bones initiation ritual conducted in the club's courtyard. The footage he captured from an abutting rooftop is quite chilling. A member dressed up as the Devil leads the acolytes into the courtyard, where they are instructed to engage in a mock human sacrifice. On another occasion, an anonymous Yale student hopped over the wall to film the interior of the Skull and Bones courtyard, and posted his captured images on the net. They revealed what appears to be a divination device similar to the Wheel of Fortune card in a Tarot deck, and, more shockingly, a ceremonial font with two black-robed skeletons (Grim Reapers) glaring at each other. The unnamed photographer claimed that that there was some sort of dried blood in the basin of the font!





Bohemian Grove: Diablo's High Jinks

In 1872, rich railroad barons and other moneyed tycoons decided to form their own secret society, wherein they could form lasting bonds in the new frontier of California. In this regard, they formed the Bohemian Club of San Francisco. In order to add a mystical element to their new fraternity, they purchased a large tract of secluded land in Northern California they named "the Grove". There, they developed a series of arcane rites that were highly secretive, until journalist Alex Jones snuck in and filmed their primary ritual during 2000. In a bizarre ceremony, members dressed in Ku Klux Klan-like robes and venerated a giant owl statue, while performing a mock human sacrifice referred to as "the Cremation of Care".

This turned out to be only one in a series of occult rites the Grove calls "High Jinks". These theatrical productions include a strange potpourri of esoteric rituals that change every year. Accoring to Wikipedia most of these Grove Plays involve pagan themes venerating such deities as Pan, Apollo and the Gorgon, as well as magical figures and practices, such as Merlin, sorcery and gypsy lore. In 1947, the play included the Pope, a Knight and the Devil, apparently borrowed from the Skull and Bones ritual. (Remember, these groups all have interlocking memberships). In 1957, the High Jinks play was simply entitled "Diablo"!

There has been much speculation about homosexuality at the Bohemian Grove, fueled primarily by member President Richard M. Nixon, from this recording made at the White House:

The Bohemian Grove, that I attend from time to time-the Easterners and the others come there-but it is the most faggy goddamn thing you could ever imagine, that San Francisco crowd that goes in there; it's just terrible! I mean, I won't shake hands with anybody from San Francisco.

For those who doubt Nixon's comments, consider the following information published by the New York Post on July 22, 2004:

The power-moguls and political heavyweights now luxuriating at ultra-exclusive retreat Bohemian Grove are unaware that they're being waited on hand-and-foot by a famous gay porn star.

We're told that Chad Savage, who has appeared in such carnal classics as 'How the West Was Hung,' is supplementing his sex job by working as a valet at Bohemian Grove, the all-male annual gathering inside a 2,700-acre redwood forest in Monte Rio, Calif., that has been attended by every Republican president since Calvin Coolidge, as well as by industrial titans and media magnates.

One can only speculate as to the full extent of the 'valet' services offered by Mr. Savage who makes tens of thousands of dollars per day as a hard core gay porn star. He certainly is not working for minimum wage and he is surely offering more than just serving drinks and running routine errands for the elite power brokers who frequent this sick cult.



Bilderberg Group: The Princes of this World

In 1954, Prince Bernard of the Netherlands hosted a top secret meeting of international political and economic leaders at the Bilderberg Hotel in Holland to address the future ties between global powers, as the world began to emerge from the aftermath of World War Two. This became an annual event, attracting up-and-coming politicians and industrialists seeking the strong ties such an elite organization has to offer. In 1996, a series of events in Belgium was to alter public perception of this group forever and expose its sinister intent.

On May 5, 2002, Observer reporter Olenka Frenkiel published a stunning article entitled, Belgium's Silent Heart of Darkness. An unemployed electrician named Marc Dutroux was arrested for child abduction and molestation. As he sat in his cell, two of his victims died of starvation in the dungeon Dutroux had created under the basement of his house. As the details of Dutroux's criminal activities emerged, it became apparent that he was working for the Bilderberg Group. He would abduct young pre-teen boys and girls for sex rituals conducted by members of this elite club. The judge overseeing the case called for more investigation and for former victims of this cabal to come forward. Ten witnesses emerged and described bizarre sex ceremonies conducted by leading politicians and industrialists -- most of them members of the Bilderberg Group.

Regina Louf, a victim of the Dutroux cult, has given testimony, which has divided Belgium. She told investigators how from the age of twelve her parents gave her to a family friend with a key to their house. He would collect her from school, and take her away for weekends to sex parties, where she was given to other men and secretly filmed having sex with them. "It was highly organized," she says. "There was a lot of money involved."

In 1996, Louf related her experiences to a police team under carefully filmed and supervised conditions. She described certain regular clients, including judges, one of the country's most powerful politicians (now dead), and a prominent banker. The names given were all attendees at Bilderberg meetings. She gave the police the names by which she knew these men, detailed the houses, apartments and districts where she had been taken with other children to entertain the sick guests with strange sex. This entertainment was not just sex, she told the police. It involved sadism, torture and even murder, and again she described the places, the victims, and the ways they were killed.

Louf's testimony was vitally important. Police began to check her story. However, when the presiding judge was removed for no apparent reason, her testimony, and that of the other witnesses, was abandoned. Ironically, the police believed they had verified key elements of her story. What Louf had described was a macabre torture session, which had eventually killed a fifteen-year-old girl she knew as Chrissie. "It was a sort of bondage…so her legs and her hands and her throat were connected with the same rope, and so when she moved she strangled herself." Louf insists Dutroux was there that night. She claims Dutroux watched, as cult members murdered this young girl. The police confirmed that the body of fifteen-year-old Christine Van Hees's body had been found in 1984 -- the very year Louf claimed this happened -- dumped in the grounds of a disused mushroom farm on the outskirts of Brussels. Poor Christine's death remains officially unsolved.

Britain's Telegraph newspaper on March 16, 1997 describes the Bilderberg rituals in an article entitled Belgians shocked by tales of secret policeman's orgy. Reporter Marcus Warren told how Belgian Detective Georges Marnette infiltrated the sex cult. The policeman describes rituals called "Pink Ballets" and "Blue Ballets", in which high-ranking government officials, members of various royal families, and captains of industry engage in various ritual sex orgies with pre-teen boys and girls. Virtually all the people involved were either Freemasons or Bilderbergers, or both. Alexandra Cohen, a member of Belgium's legislature, in an article entitled Some Post Christian Realities (2001), claims that a note with a request for children for a satanic sacrifice was found among the papers of one of Dutroux's accomplices.

Belgium reporters Jean Nicolas and Frédéric Lavachery, in their banned book, The Pedophile Dossier (2001), assert that Bilderbergers hold regular sex rituals at various castles throughout Europe -- the headquarters of the cult seems to be the "Castle of Kings" (Château des Amerois) located in Muno, Belgium. The Castle is said to have a large occult cathedral inside, featuring a huge dome with a thousand shining lights to illuminate the sick ceremonies.

The Bilderbergers are not discouraged by any of this publicity, and continue their vile and satanic activities. Bilderberg member, Freemason and Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi, is currently on trial in Italy for having sex with underage girls. According to an ABC News article, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi Accused by Teen of Hosting 'Bunga Bunga' Orgy (November 10, 2010), after surviving one sex scandal last year, for which his wife called him "shameless" and filed for divorce, Berlusconi now stands accused by a seventeen-year-old prostitute of organizing a ritual Libyan orgy called a "bunga bunga", that included twenty naked women at his villa in Milan. (Perhaps this is a new slant on the "Pink Ballet" rites). According to an MSNBC report filed on March 29, 2011, U.S. actor, George Clooney, attended one of these "bunga bunga" rituals, although he is not connected to any secret society.



The Front Groups: Intertwining 666


These elite clubs have a public face by which they promote their agenda to the world at large. The Trilateral Commission is perhaps the best known of these groups. Their symbol is an intertwined 666, which is clearly a semi-hidden diabolical sign. Other organizations are less forward with their occult agenda. They include the Council for Foreign Relations, The Pilgrim Society, The Club of Rome, Jason Group, Sun Valley Meeting, 1001 Club, Le Cercle, Somerset Club and some other, lesser policy groups and university alumni clubs. None of these organizations can be trusted. They are merely the mouthpieces for infernal cults hiding their sinister intent behind a veil of doing good for humanity.

It should be noted that many wealthy power brokers are members of one or more of these satanic secret societies or front groups. Both Presidents Bush 1 & 2 are members of the Skull & Bones, Bohemian Grove, Bilderbergers, CFR and Trilateral Commission . King Albert of Belgium is both a Freemason and a Bilderberger. It seems that every important leader in both the private and public sector is connected to these groups. President Barak Obama attended a Bilderberg meeting and his chief fiscal advisor, Austin Goolsby, is a Skull and Bones member. This state of affairs must end, and such leaders who belong to these cults should be voted out of office, or stripped of their royal titles. The leadership of any corporation involved with these secret societies should be forced to resign by threat of boycott of the goods and services they offer. Anything less will leave the entire human race in the hands of Devil-worshiping perverts.



Full article and images:

http://www.williamhkennedy.com/StrangeRites.html

A Dangerous Precedent

Tuesday, October 11, 2011 – by Ron Paul


According to the Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution, Americans are never to be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The Constitution is not some aspirational statement of values, allowing exceptions when convenient, but rather, it is the law of the land. It is the basis of our Republic and our principal bulwark against tyranny.

Last week's assassination of two American citizens, Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, is an outrage and a criminal act carried out by the President and his administration. If the law protecting us against government-sanctioned assassination can be voided when there is a "really bad American," is there any meaning left to the rule of law in the United States?

If, as we learned last week, a secret government committee, not subject to congressional oversight or judicial review, can now target certain Americans for assassination, under what moral authority do we presume to lecture the rest of the world about protecting human rights? Didn't we just bomb Libya into oblivion under the auspices of protecting the civilians from being targeted by their government? Timothy McVeigh was certainly a threat, as were Nidal Hassan and Jared Lee Loughner. They killed people in front of many witnesses. They took up arms against their government in a literal way, yet were still afforded trials.

These constitutional protections are in place because our Founders realized it is a very serious matter to deprive any individual of life or liberty. Our outrage against even the obviously guilty is not worth the sacrifice of the rule of law. Al-Awlaki has been outspoken against the United States and we are told he encouraged violence against Americans. We do not know that he actually committed any acts of violence. Ironically, he was once invited to the Pentagon as part of an outreach to moderate Muslims after 9/11. As the US attacks against Muslims in the Middle East and Central Asia expanded, it is said that he became more fervent and radical in his opposition to US foreign policy.

Many cheer this killing because they believe that in a time of war, due process is not necessary - not even for citizens, and especially not for those overseas. However, there has been no formal declaration of war and certainly not one against Yemen. The post-9/11 authorization for force would not have covered these two Americans because no one is claiming they had any connection to that attack. Al-Awlaki was on a kill list compiled by a secret panel within President Obama's National Security Council and Justice Department. How many more Americans citizens are on that list? They won't tell us. What are the criteria? They won't tell us. Where is the evidence? They won't tell us.

Al-Awlaki's father tried desperately to get the administration to at least allow his son to have legal representation to challenge the "kill" order. He was denied. Rather than give him his day in court, the administration, behind closed doors, served as prosecutor, judge, jury and executioner.

The most worrisome aspect of this is that any new powers this administration accrues will serve as precedents for future administrations. Even those who completely trust this administration must understand that if this usurpation of power and denial of due process is allowed to stand, these powers will remain to be expanded upon by the next administration and then the next. Will you trust them?

History shows that once a population gives up its rights, they are not easily won back. Beware.


Full article:
http://www.thedailybell.com/3069/Ron-Paul-A-Dangerous-Precedent

Misspelling 'Muhammad' puts Pakistani schoolgirl in danger

Misspelling 'Muhammad' puts Pakistani schoolgirl in danger
Posted on Oct 5, 2011 | by Staff

LAHORE, Pakistan (BP) -- An eighth-grade student in Pakistan has been expelled from school and her family forced to relocate after the Christian girl misspelled "Muhammad," leading to accusations of blasphemy, sources told Compass Direct News.

In Abbottabad, 13-year-old Faryal Bhatti, a student at the Sir Syed Girls High School in Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF) Colony Havelian, misspelled a word on an Urdu exam Sept. 22 while answering a question on a poem in praise of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, according to area Christians. Urdu is a language.

Faryal wrote laanat, the transliteration of the Urdu word for "curse," instead of naat, which means a poem written in praise of Islam's prophet, they said. The school administration and local Islamists declared that the error was serious enough to violate Pakistan's widely condemned laws against blaspheming Muhammad and Islam.

Conviction under Section 295-C of Pakistan's blasphemy law for derogatory comments about Muhammad is punishable by death, though life imprisonment also is possible.

Faryal's Urdu teacher was collecting the answer sheets from her students when she noticed the word on Faryal's paper. The teacher, identified only as Fareeda, summoned the Christian girl, scolded her and beat her, area sources told Compass by telephone.

Fareeda then notified the principal, who in turn informed school officials as news of the error spread throughout the colony. The next day, male students at the school as well as some Muslim representatives staged a demonstration, demanding registration of a criminal case against the eighth-grader and her eviction from the area, sources said.

Prayer leaders within the Muslim community also condemned the incident in their Friday sermons, asking the colony's administration to take action against Faryal as well as her family, sources said.

POF Colony Havelian Managing Director Asif Siddiki called a meeting of clerics and school teachers to discuss the conflict, according to reports, at which the girl and her mother were ordered to appear; they explained that it was a mere error caused by a resemblance between the two words.

The girl and her mother immediately apologized, contending that Faryal had no malicious intentions, but in a move apparently designed to pacify Muslim cries for punishment, the POF administration expelled her from the school Sept. 24.

School administrator Junaid Sarfraz said Faryal had confessed that she had inadvertently made the mistake and the school administration, after consulting local clerics, decided to expel her. Sarfraz claimed that Faryal's teacher was certain that she had made the mistake intentionally and that the matter was referred to clerics because Faryal had previously aroused similar suspicions of blasphemy.

Maulana Alla Dita, head of the area's prominent mosque, reportedly said the school administration had made the right decision in expelling Faryal from school. Dita claimed that he had met with Faryal, who had apologized for the mistaken use of the word. Dita said he wasn't clear about Faryal's intentions, but that "the word she had used was sacrilegious," according to press reports.

Faryal's mother, Sarafeen Bhatti, a staff nurse at the POF Hospital Havelian for several years, immediately was transferred to POF Wah Cantonment Hospital. Abbottabad District Commissioner Syed Imtiaz Hussain Shah said the 13-year-old had been expelled for using "derogatory words" and her mother had consequently been "moved to another place."

A Christian lawyer in Havelian who was among the community members making efforts to defuse area tensions told Compass by phone that the military had acted swiftly to save the lives of Faryal and her mother.

"The military swung into action soon after protests broke out calling for a blasphemy case against the teenager," the attorney said on condition of anonymity. "They bundled the family in an ambulance and took them away before the situation could turn violent."

A text message campaign also started Sept. 24, calling for action against the family, he said.

"Some Christian families living in the area panicked, but the situation has been under control so far," he said.

An area Christian told Compass there were 13 or 14 Christian families in the colony who now have fears about security. He said Faryal's family had little contact with other Christians living in the area. The resident also praised the army for acting in a timely manner, "or else the mullahs would have punished all of us for the little girl's error."

The incident has instilled fear in Christian parents that an unintentional mistake by their children could cause them personal disaster. Shazia Imran, mother to three schoolchildren, told Compass that Faryal's episode had left her distressed.

"Ever since I came to know about the young girl's story, I have been unable to sleep properly," she said. "We have been continuously telling our children not to discuss their faith with anyone in school and to avoid getting into religious discussions with their Muslim class fellows, but this was beyond my imagination."

She added that she and her husband were now "very disturbed and fearful" about their children's future in Pakistan.

Azra George, a Christian mother to a college student, said the incident had shocked her and the congregation at her Presbyterian church.

"Everyone at church was discussing this sorry incident on Sunday," she said. "Parents of school-going children were particularly perturbed. This blasphemy thing will always remain hanging on our heads like a sword, and there's nothing anyone can do about it."

Compass's repeated attempts to reach the Bhatti family were unsuccessful as they had moved to an undisclosed location because of security concerns.

Asif Aqeel, executive director of the Community Development Initiative, an affiliate of the European Centre for Law and Justice, said the incident showed how Pakistani society was getting sensitized over the issue of blasphemy.

"Only a small number of people are formally accused of blasphemy. We do not know the number of people who, like Faryal and her family, are harassed without a legal charge," he said. "Members of Pakistan's minority communities are afraid of moving around and expressing themselves freely due to the fear of being accused of blasphemy."

Christians make up only 2.45 percent of Pakistan's population, which is more than 95 percent Muslim, according to Operation World. Aqeel said a Christian boy recently was implicated in a criminal case of harassment by the family of a Muslim girl who was in love with him. Aqeel said the boy's family urged the police investigating officer to free the boy, whose name was withheld for security reasons, as the charges were baseless.

"The family was taken aback when the police official told them that their son had mocked the Sunnah [sayings and teachings] of prophet Muhammad by keeping a French beard," Aqeel said. Thus, although the harassment case had nothing to do with the blasphemy law, the mere mention of the law forced the family to keep silent, he said.

Similarly, Christian teachers avoid lessons that mention Islamic history or anything related to the religion out of fear that any misstep could bring criminal charges. Likewise, Urdu language and social studies textbooks include several lessons on Islamic religious thought, so Christian teachers avoid nearly half of these books to avoid being charged with blasphemy, he said.

Napolean Qayyum, a leader of the Minorities Wing of the ruling Pakistan People's Party, condemned the incident, saying it was unfortunate that a 13-year-old had to suffer this ordeal over a miniscule error.

"The army's timely intervention saved the Christians' lives, but most people are not so fortunate," he said, adding that the incident showed how intolerance towards minorities was taking root in Pakistani society.

"Would the teacher have highlighted the same mistake if it was made by a Muslim student?" he said. "I would guess not."



For the full article demonstrating how Islam is the "religion of peace" go here:

http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=36265

A FORT WORTH SCHOOL SCANDAL

By Lee Duigon
September 29, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

Picture this.

You’re a 14-year-old honor student, a Christian, sitting in a German class in a Fort Worth, Texas, high school. On the classroom wall, the “teacher” has hung a poster of two men kissing.

It’s already getting hard to picture this, isn’t it?

The teacher initiates a discussion of “homosexuality and religion in Germany,” and you turn to the kid at the desk behind you and remark that “being a homosexual is wrong.”

Crash! The roof falls in on you. The teacher goes ballistic, yelling at you that men kissing men, etc., is now “the way it is” and “you’d better learn to accept it.” You are a “bully” for believing homosexuality is wrong; but the teacher is allowed to say that Christianity is wrong. Go figure! Next thing you know, you’re in an in-school suspension for the rest of the day, and kicked out of school for the next two days. (Source: “Texas School Punishes Boy for Opposing Homosexuality,” by Todd Starnes, FoxNews.com, Sept. 22)

Officials of the Fort Worth school district have declined to comment on the incident. After the boy’s mother got a lawyer from Liberty Counsel and threatened to sue the district, they rescinded the suspension and erased the “possible bullying” charge—who, exactly, was being bullied here?—from the student’s record. So, all’s well that ends well—right?

Not so fast there, folks.

The Big Media didn’t bother to do this, so I discussed the case with someone at the Texas Education Agency, the state’s board of education. In the course of our chat, a TEA spokeswoman imparted some interesting information.

One, decorating a classroom with posters of same-sex makeout sessions, and demanding that all students learn to “accept” homosexuality, even if it means denying their religion, is to be found “nowhere in the curriculum” of Texas public schools.

Two, the parent of any child subjected to this kind of indoctrination in a classroom has the right to file a formal complaint with the Texas Education Agency.

Three, once a complaint is filed, the TEA will investigate the incident. In this case, Fox News has reported that this particular teacher “has a history” of pushing his pro-sodomy agenda on the captive classroom audience.

Depending on the findings of the investigation, the TEA has the power to punish the teacher with either a formal reprimand or the revocation of his teachers’ license, or something in between.

Organized Sodomy has seized on the “bullying” issue to give cover for its plan to dominate public education—a project which so far has gone off without a hitch. “Gay” activists count on parents being determined to put up with virtually anything as long as their kids can go to school “for free.” (Public education is anything but “free;” but that’s another issue.) All they have to do is murmur platitudes about “safe schools” and “no more bullying,” and the parents will be more than happy to believe their children are in good hands. Oh, how they want to believe!

Is it too much to ask that some parent in Fort Worth file an official complaint against this teacher? In the interests of justice, he should be charged with…“bullying”! Yes—let them get a dose of their own medicine. Besides which, if what the so-called teacher in this case did was not bullying, then what is? Then again, we are always encouraged to believe that bullying in a good, solid, off-the-wall leftist cause is not bullying. It seems “gay” militants are always allowed to bully Christians.

If the school administrators had thought the teacher acted correctly, they would not have dropped the boy’s suspension the moment a lawyer showed up. But Fox News reported that the school principal told the boy’s lawyer that the teacher “won’t be pushing his agenda” anymore.

Hello! Why did this guy have an agenda in the first place? For how long did his bizarre teaching techniques remain a secret from the school principal? If the principal and his staff were completely unaware of this alleged teacher’s activities, what else is going on in their school that they don’t know about? But if they were aware, then why did they allow it? And for how long?

The TEA does not have the power to start an investigation on its own. It must wait until a parent asks for one. The situation in Fort Worth cries out for an investigation. The lid must be torn off this can of worms. Surely there is one Christian father or mother in the Fort Worth school district who will file a complaint.

If not… well, silence means consent.

But don’t be too surprised if no complaint is filed. American parents devoutly desire not to know what goes on in the schools their taxes pay for.

© 2011 Lee Duigon - All Rights Reserved


Full article and additional links:

http://www.newswithviews.com/Duigon/lee116.htm

Must See! 180

Check it out here:

http://www.180movie.com/

US Won't Release Bin Laden Death Photos

Wednesday, September 28, 2011 by Staff Report - www.thedailybell.com

Pentagon fight to keep Osama bin Laden (left) death photos secret ... Photos and videos of Al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden after he was killed in May in a U.S. military/Central Intelligence Agency raid in Pakistan should not be released publicly because they would reveal military and intelligence secrets and could lead to violence against U.S. personnel, the Obama administration argued in papers filed in federal court in Washington late Monday night. – Politico

Dominant Social Theme: We can tell you whatever we need to, but we can't show you the details, or explain it properly because it might compromise national security. So just believe us. Have we ever lied to you?

Free-Market Analysis: The US government is at it again. While the entire world is aware now that Bin Laden was killed by Navy SEALS on May 1, 2011, evidence corroborating the killing has never been released. Everyone should take it on faith, but unfortunately, the US government doesn't have a very good track record these days when it comes to telling the truth. Bin Laden's death has only added to suspicion and confusion. Here are some issues regarding his passing that have surfaced and resurfaced ...

Supposedly, top government officials including Hillary Clinton watched the raid on bin Laden's compound in Pakistan. But later that turned out not to be true, or not entirely. Hillary Clinton had her hand over her mouth in an important photo that was released, but later on she said it wasn't because she was watching bin Laden being shot but because she was stifling a sneeze.

DNA was said to have been extracted from Bin Laden after he was shot, but now it turns out there is some confusion about whether it was or wasn't. A DNA test was supposed to have been performed, but now there is some confusion about that, too.

Bin Laden is said to have fought back when confronted by Navy SEALS. But later it was said that his wife was the confronter, and that she had been shot. Then it turned out that maybe she hadn't been shot. Pakistan never turned her over to the US. Now she may be in Saudi Arabia.

Bin Laden's body was dropped out at sea, which is in accordance with Muslim practices. But now it turns out that dropping a body into the middle of the ocean may not be standard practice, even for Islam. Or at least there are conflicting reports on the 'Net.

There were death photos of bin Laden on the Internet, and they were circulated widely. But after an unusual time lag, US officials admitted they were photo-shopped and warned the government and Pentagon had nothing to do with them.

There are eyewitnesses to the bin Laden raid that contradict almost everything the US has said about the famous raid and bin Laden's death. Strangely, not a single mainstream Western media source has contacted the eyewitnesses for their side of the story. You can see an article about what the eyewitnesses said here: Eye Witness Tells Different Story of Bin Laden Death.

Most puzzlingly, bin Laden is said to have died at least two times prior to May 1. Fox news announced his death in 2001 and you can watch a video from Benazir Bhutto explaining to David Frost that Osama bin Laden was murdered in the early 2000s. (Watch video here.)

Bin Laden was said to suffer from Marfan's disease, which affects the kidneys. He was said to need regular dialysis in the late 1990s and even went to a French hospital for treatment. The idea that he would have been healthy enough to confront Navy SEALS in his pajamas some 10 years later is a puzzling one.

Of course, the US government – and specifically the Obama administration – could put to rest any doubt about the killing simply by releasing photos (confirmed ones) along with DNA evidence, etc. They could even let a Navy SEAL talk, one presumably who had been on the mission.

Which brings us to another point, the downing of a helicopter with the Navy SEAL Team 6 onboard. These were SEALS that had supposedly killed bin Laden and conspiracy theorists are having a field day with this coincidental tragedy.

In fact, the Internet is filled with denunciations of the deaths and accusations that the SEALS were actually done away with by the US government to prevent them from speaking out and to serve as a warning to others to keep quiet. Here's just one sample, a feedback we found on the ATLAH news network:

The 22 special forces / Seals that were involved in the HOAX that was presented to the people of America as "the capture and murder of Osama bin Laden"... were onboard this aircraft that was sent out on a false flag "set-up", and were erased.... shot up so badly that even the body remains could not be separated out and identified.

Those 22 men KNEW what the REAL story relative to the HOAX was. Doesn't anybody find this scenario highly suspicious? Now the United States Congress is trying to lock down, once and for all, any further hint of question about the event with a new bill, HR 2819. The bill prohibits any "officer or employee of the Federal Government from providing information about the mission to kill Osama bin Laden to any person outside the Federal Government..." This essentially silences anyone who might be able to shed ANY light on the event. Doesn't ANYBODY "see" what is being done?

If the Obama administration would just release SOME corroborating evidence about the bin Laden killing, many of the suspicions that people have about it would go away. But instead, the administration is moving in the other direction, attempting to choke off any further information that would confirm the death. Why? Here's some more from the Politico article excerpted at the beginning of this analysis

The new filings from the Justice Department provide scant details about the imagery, but CIA National Clandestine Service Director John Bennett wrote that the CIA has "52 unique... photographs and/or videorecordings" depicting bin Laden during or after the May operation. Bennett did not break down the tally further, but said all the imagery is classified "TOP SECRET," meaning that disclosure of the material could lead to "exceptionally grave damage" to U.S. national security.

"All of the responsive records are the product of a highly sensitive, overseas operation that was conducted under the direction of the CIA," Bennett wrote, arguing that disclosure of the information would reveal "intelligence activities and/or methods." He called the photos "gruesome," and said they depict the gunshot wound to bin Laden's head. It is unclear whether his descriptions referred to all the images and videos, or just some of them.

The motion for summary judgment and supporting declarations ask U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg to rule for the government in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought in May by Judicial Watch. The conservative watchdog group sued the Defense Department after it failed to comply with the group's request for the bin Laden imagery. The suit was broadened in June to name the CIA as a defendant.

President Obama is on record as saying that photos of bin Laden would be released. But now it turns out that the government has no intention of releasing any photos at all. In fact, from what we can tell, the government actually may NOT have ANY photos of the death scene. At least that's what the Politico article seems to imply, as follows:

The government filings claim that the Defense Department found no imagery responsive to the requests. Sources previously told POLITICO that at least some of the images were on a secure, classified interagency network accessible to individuals at various agencies. The new court filings don't make clear who took the photos and video. If they were in possession of military personnel at the time the FOIA requests were made or thereafter, some of the arguments for disclosure could be strengthened. However, it's also possible that the courts may accept that the entire operation is an intelligence CIA, Pentagon fight to keep Osama bin Laden death photos secret ...

The operative sentence here (one Politico seems to gloss over) is that the Defense Department found no imagery "responsive" to the requests. It could be the administration is making a legal fight on general principles even though it does not have the photos that are being sought. But why weren't photos taken then? And if that is the case, why doesn't the government simply admit it?

Conclusion: In the Internet era, governments can't simply hunker down and keep information to themselves. There are too many ways to get at what's been hidden, and even if information stays hidden, speculation can be rampant in blogs and within discussion groups. US government officials are probably doing yet more damage to their credibility by fighting to retain photos of bin Laden's death. President Obama indicated at one point that such photos would be released. Their dissemination would do a good deal to damp suspicions and establish the reality of bin Laden's demise.

Full article:
http://www.thedailybell.com/3005/US-Wont-Release-Bin-Laden-Death-Photos

Judge Not?

How the Most Misquoted Verse in the Bible Is Destroying America
By Brannon S. Howse
www.worldviewweekend.com

Tolerance mongers seem to have found the one absolute truth they are willing to live by. How many times have you heard someone say, "Judge not lest you be judged"? The statement has become the great American open-mindedness mantra when anyone has the courage to declare that someone else's belief, actions or lifestyle is morally amiss.

Another form of the same non-judgmental judgment is "that may be true for you, but it's not true for me." The logic behind the statement goes something like this: "Your truth is your truth and my truth is my truth. We are both right, and I hold to my opinion of truth." The last time I checked, it was impossible for two chairs to occupy the same space around my dining room table, but evidently such rules of time, space and logic don't apply to tolerance philosophy.

Postmodernism's live-and-let-live concept of truth argues that even two opposite and wholly contradictory claims can both be true. This is as stupid as saying that black and white are the same color. Yet, it clarifies the absurdity of the postmodernism we are all supposed to blithely accept as the fundamental principle by which we respond to each other's ideas-the "please and thank-you" of philosophical respect.

So beware. If you dare claim that another person's truth is not, in fact, truth but is, in fact, wrong, you are not only being intolerant but you are also being-Mantra forbid!-judgmental.

In his book, True for You, But Not for Me, Paul Copan describes the fallacy in this all too common thinking:

It has been said that the most frequently quoted Bible verse is no longer John 3:16 but Matthew 7:1: "Do not judge, or you too will be judged." We cannot glibly quote this, though, without understanding what Jesus meant. When Jesus condemned judging, he wasn't at all implying we should never make judgments about anyone. After all, a few verses later, Jesus himself calls certain people "pigs" and "dogs" (Matt 7:6) and "wolves in sheep's clothing" (7:15). … What Jesus condemns is a critical and judgmental spirit, an unholy sense of superiority. Jesus commanded us to examine ourselves first for the problems we so easily see in others. Only then can we help remove the speck in another's eye-which, incidentally, assumes that a problem exists and must be confronted.[1]

Those that tell you not to judge, quoting Matthew 7:1 grossly out of context, are often some of the most mean-spirited, judgmental souls you could ever meet. It's not, of course, that they don't want anyone to judge anything because they want very much to judge and condemn your commitment to lovingly speak and practice your Christian worldview. You see how these tolerance rules work? We must tolerate them, but they don't have to tolerate us. The logic is consistent, anyway.

Today's postmodern culture of adults and students is so consumed by non-judgmentalism that there are some who say we should not even call wrong or evil the terrorists that attacked America on September 11, 2001. In a Time magazine essay entitled "God Is Not on My Side. Or Yours," Roger Rosenblatt offers the philosophical underpinnings of the live-and-let-live rule for global terrorism:

One would like to think that God is on our side against the terrorists, because the terrorists are wrong and we are in the right, and any deity worth his salt would be able to discern that objective truth. But this is simply good-hearted arrogance cloaked in morality-the same kind of thinking that makes people decide that God created humans in his own image. The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self-regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.[2]

At least the "arrogance" of recognizing the difference between right and wrong is "good-hearted," even if the reactions to it aren't. Alison Hornstein, for instance, is a student at Yale University who observed the disconnect between tolerance and reality. Writing on "The Question That We Should Be Asking-Is Terrorism Wrong?" in the December 17, 2001 issue of Newsweek, Alison noted, "My generation may be culturally sensitive, but we hesitate to make moral judgments." While that might be putting it mildly, she goes on to say:

Student reactions expressed in the daily newspaper and in class pointed to the differences between our life circumstances and those of the [9/11] perpetrators, suggesting that these differences had caused the previous day's events. Noticeably absent was a general outcry of indignation at what had been the most successful terrorist attack of our lifetime. These reactions and similar ones on other campuses have made it apparent that my generation is uncomfortable assessing, or even asking whether a moral wrong has taken place.[3]

Hornstein further describes how on September 12th-one day after Islamic extremists murdered more than 3,000 people on American soil-one of her professors:

did not see much difference between Hamas suicide bombers and American soldiers who died fighting in World War II. When I saw one or two students nodding in agreement, I raised my hand. …. American soldiers, in uniform, did not have a policy of specifically targeting civilians; suicide bombers, who wear plainclothes, do. The professor didn't call on me. The people who did get a chance to speak cited various provocations for terrorism; not one of them questioned its morality.[4]

If Americans don't start to judge and punish evil instead of accepting all ideas and beliefs as equal, we will become a nation that welcomes same-sex marriage, polygamy, pedophilia, incest, euthanasia, and likely a host of moral aberrations so bizarre they're still hidden in the darkest reaches of the Internet.

I wish I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say, "you know we are not to judge people; even the Bible says 'judge not lest you be judged'." Americans had better start getting comfortable with politically in-correct, non-humanistic forms of making intelligent judgments on moral issues because even if we don't make them, I'm concerned there is Someone very willing to hold our nation accountable for what we allow. And He doesn't respond well to intimidation, name-calling, flawed logic, or being quoted out of context.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[1] Paul Copan ,True for You, But not for Me, (Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers, 1998) p.32-33. cites D.A. Carson, The Sermon on the Mount (Grand Rapids, Mich: Baker, 1978), 97.

[2] Roger Rosenblat, "Essay: God is not on My side. Or Yours" Time Dec. 17, 2001. p. 92.

[3] Alison Hornstein "The Question That We Should Be Asking" Newsweek, December 17, 2001, p. 14

[4] Ibid; p. 14.

Homosexuality verses God's Holiness

Homosexuality verses God's Holiness
John McTernan
www.defendproclaimthefaith.org


Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Jude 1:7

Today the Church is faced with a crisis it never had to face before in its 2000 year history. The crisis comes from homosexuality being presented as acceptable behavior by factions within the Church. Certain denominations such as the Episcopalian are promoting homosexual pastors and marriage. Bold homosexual ministers, actually living with a partner, stand in the pulpit promoting this lifestyle. On June 15, 2008, two Anglican Church, male priests “married” in an official church wedding ceremony.

On June 26, 2003, homosexuality was defined by the Supreme Court of the United States as a Constitutional right of privacy. This has opened the flood gates to advance the homosexual agenda. Soon after this, starting in San Francisco and then spreading to many other states, homosexuals were "married" in civil ceremonies.

In November 2003, the Supreme Court of Massachusetts demanded that the state legislature enact homosexual marriage legislation. On May 17, 2004, homosexual marriage became legal in this state. On May 15, 2008, the California State Supreme Court ruled that homosexuals were entitled to marry. On June 15, 2008, homosexuals began to legally marry. The floods gates are now wide open throughout America to advance the homosexual agenda.

Pastors within mainline denominations are "marrying" homosexuals. These denominations seem to lack the resolve to stand up against this trend. The Episcopalian Church among others is leading the way in promoting homosexuality. On August 6, 2003, the Episcopalian Church voted to install Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire . Robinson is a man who divorced his wife with whom he had two children and now lives in an open homosexual relationship. He remained a minister and then was voted a bishop. This is only one of many examples of how denominations are either passively or outright promoting homosexuality by not disciplining ministers who are advancing the homosexual agenda. The “church” has become a leader of the homosexual agenda.

There are now movements both within civil government and religious circles to sanction homosexual marriages. This never happened before in our history. This is unchartered waters for America . It is not unchartered waters according to the Bible because it states what happens to a nation that promotes sodomy.

Those who stand against this act are now being branded as narrow minded religious bigots who are against diversity. There is now a social tidal wave going on to promote, encourage and protect the homosexual act. Leading the way in this movement are both politicians and clergy who claim to believe the Bible.

In the very first chapter of the Bible, God ordains the union of a man and woman and the family unit. He ordained the marriage between a man and a woman. This was the plan of God from the very beginning: one man and one woman and a family. This plan of God has not changed and no law of man including the Supreme Court of the United States can alter God’s family unit.

Genesis 1:26-28 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness... So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply..."

Genesis 2:24 “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.”

In the New Testament, the Bible states that marriage is honorable in all things and that those who defile it by adultery and whoremongering will come under the direct judgment of God. The Greek word translated whoremongering is the same word translated fornication. This word is very important in defining what homosexuality is and will be developed shortly. Remember, marriage as defined by the Bible is a union between one man and one woman. You must always keep in mind how God defines marriage: one man and one woman.

Hebrews 13:4 “Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.”

The Ordinances of the Amorites

Genesis 15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again:
for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.

God told Abraham that his descendants were going to leave the land of Canaan for 400 years because the iniquity of the people living in the land was not complete. There is a process for a society to be taken over by iniquity. In the case of the Canaanites, God gave these people 400 years to stop iniquity. God knew that after 400 years the iniquity of the people would reach its peak. The people would not turn from sin, but they would completely embrace it.

When studying Genesis 15:16 there is a key word in this verse. It is the Hebrew word translated full. This word is directly connected with the idea of friendly or friendship. The concept of this word is that when a society is friendly with iniquity at that point it is subject to judgment from God. Iniquity is no longer shameful or a disgraceful. It is not hidden or done in the dark. The people are friendly with it. They are accustomed to it. In Genesis 15:16, the Bible does not define iniquity: it simply states that there is a time for it to mature in a society and become full.

After the 400 years, the Jews left Egypt and came back to the land of Canaan . Today it is called the land of Israel . At this time, the Bible identifies what is iniquity. In Leviticus 18, God warned the Jews not to follow the ordinances of the Canaanites who lived in the land. The Canaanites and Amorites blended into one people; therefore it is also the ordinances of the Amorites that are mentioned in Genesis 15:16.

Leviticus 18:3 After the doings of the land of Egypt , wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan , whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.

In the above verse, the key word is ordinances. The Hebrew word means an enactment and is also translated custom, manner, and statute. By using the word ordinance the Bible is describing a society that is “friendly” with iniquity. Iniquity has become ingrained in the Canaanites by both customs and laws which makes it a way of life. For this reason, God is about to judge the Canaanites and drive them off the land. The judgment comes because iniquity is an ordinance of the society and not because individuals are committing iniquity. When a society makes iniquity an ordinance, this is extremely serious with God.

Later in chapter 18, the Bible defines iniquity. It includes such acts as: adultery, child sacrifice, homosexuality and bestiality. Homosexuality is singled out from this group and described as an abomination. Without any doubt, God strongly condemns the homosexual act as iniquity. There is no section in the Old Testament where God approves or condones homosexuality. The homosexual act is a very serious offense to God. It is linked with child sacrifice and bestiality. The Scriptures to show this follow:

Leviticus 18:20 Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour's wife, to defile thyself with her. (Adultery)

(21) And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD. (Child sacrifice)

(22) Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. (Homosexuality)

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



The Bible warns that when homosexuality becomes an ordinance, social custom or norm, it will bring God's judgment on that nation. When the Bible defines iniquity, the homosexual act would automatically fall under the description of this word. In the strongest language possible, the Bible says because of iniquity the land will vomit out its inhabitants. The Scriptures to show this follows:


Leviticus 18:24 Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

(25) And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

(26) Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:

(27) (For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)


The United States now is enacting, by both custom and law, the Ordinances of the Amorites; therefore the nation is defiled before the holy God of Israel and faces His judgment. By promoting homosexuality, America has become like the ancient pagan Amorites and has now come under the judgment of God.

America promotes homosexuality by custom with events such as Gay Pride Day, Gay Awareness Month (June), Gay day at Disney land, Gay Day at sporting events and events like Southern Decadence in New Orleans . There are gay clubs in high school and colleges. The political parties are pandering to the homosexuals for their votes. By custom, homosexuality has woven into the fabric of America .

America is continually making ordinances to advance the homosexual agenda. Sodomites can legally marry in California and Massachusetts while many states recognize civil unions. Homosexuals are now able to adopt children and gain custody of children during a divorce. There are now numerous hate speech laws which are being used to silence opposition to the homosexual agenda. America is a long way down the road to enacting all the Ordinances of the Amorites.

The Bible warns of God judging a nation that walks in these ordinances. When the corporate attitude of a nation is friendly toward homosexuality then at this point the iniquity is full. It is apparent that “the cup” of America ’s sin is rapidly filling up. Americans hardly blush anymore at fornication and adultery. The nation kills over one million babies a year with up to 50 million killed since 1973. The legalizing of abortion was an additional Ordinance of the Amorites. Homosexuality is fast becoming a constitutional right. The only ordinance left to fulfill Leviticus 18 is bestiality. This is probably next on line to become an ordinance!


The New Testament

The New Testament also uses very strong language when dealing with homosexuality. In the book of Romans, it is described as uncleanness, vile affections and a lust of the heart. Those that practice homosexuality dishonor their body. This act is condemned in the strongest terms. The person with the homosexual drive is described in the Bible to have: "burned in their lust one toward another." Homosexuals do not have the love relationship that a man and woman share for each other. They have what the Bible describes as a “burning lust.”

Romans 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves

Romans 1:26 “For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: (27) And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.”

The Scriptures indicate that when a person engages in homosexuality it is an indication they are under God’s judgment. The judgment is described as, "God gave them up." This happens when a person is in deep rebellion against God. This rebellion manifests itself in homosexuality which would then cause God to give them over to this act. They can be sealed into homosexuality.

A homosexual can repent and trust Jesus Christ as Savior just like any other sinner; however, those that are in deep rebellion against God and not just caught in the power of this sin are given over to it. There is a huge difference between being under the power of sin and being given over to it in judgment by God. A homosexual that is not a reprobate is one that knows the act is wrong and is under condemnation.

There are numbers of homosexuals who are not reprobates as they struggle against this iniquity. There is hope for them in the saving gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. The gospel of Jesus Christ has more power than the lust of homosexuality or any other iniquity!

The reprobate has lost any conviction that the act is sinful. The conscience of a reprobate is dead to God’s conviction of sin. When someone is given over to homosexuality, they have what the Bible calls a reprobate mind. This mind is devoid of God and His word. The Greek word translated reprobate means unapproved rejected, worthless. It is also translated castaway and rejected.

Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient”

It is very serious to be given over by God to a reprobate mind as it has eternal ramifications for that person. The modern definition of the word gives a powerful description of a reprobate:

A depraved, vicious, or unprincipled person: one whose character is utterly bad.

This mind then is at war with God and hates with a deep seething all that is connected to God. God is holy: therefore the reprobate mind is opposed to all that is holy and righteous. God instituted marriage between a man and woman; therefore the reprobate mind wants to destroy it. In a real sense, the reprobate mind is a war with God. A person is given over to this mindset in punishment for not wanting God in their thoughts.

Ephesians 4:17-19 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.


A reprobate mind is not limited to the homosexual act. The Bible goes on to say that the acceptance of homosexuality by a heterosexual is an indication of also having a reprobate mind. It is an overwhelming indication that this person has rejected God in his mind and is now living with a reprobate mind. This means a person who is a heterosexual but supports, defends or encourages homosexuality is also a reprobate before God.

Supporting the homosexual agenda shows a deep rebellion against God and classifies that person as a reprobate. To God there is no difference between an active homosexual and a heterosexual who condones this act. They both are linked to the reprobate mind. This means the American society is loaded with reprobates. They are clergy, politicians, judges and college professors. They are news analysts and Hollywood stars.

Romans 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. (The Greek word translated pleasure means this: think well of in common, i.e. assent to, feel gratified with)


God Gave Them Over To A Reprobate Mind


The Bible devotes an entire chapter to the process of becoming a reprobate. The book of Romans, the first chapter gives the process by which a person develops a reprobate mind. The first step is the failure to acknowledge God and being unthankful:

“Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.” Romans 1:21.

This is followed by denying the truth of God and His Word and believing lies:

“Who changed the truth of God into a lie” Romans 1:25.

Following the living of a lie, the presence of God departs from a person's life leaving a huge void. This void is filled by turning to sexual immorality and ending with homosexuality:

“For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the women, burned in their lust one toward another” Romans 1:26-27.

When a person lives a lie, he drives the knowledge of God out of his mind and becomes a reprobate:

“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient” Romans 1:28.

The explosion in America of pornography, lewd movies, fornication, adultery, divorce, and homosexuality are all clear signs that the nation has become reprobate before God. The acceptance and promotion of homosexuality as being an alternate lifestyle is the key sign and the “end of the road” of becoming a reprobate. To God, those that give consent that sexual immorality is an alternate lifestyle, are as guilty as those who live the lifestyle. They also are reprobates - “Not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.” Romans 1:32.

America as a nation is a long way down the road to developing a reprobate, national consensus. In 1963, America turned from God when the Supreme Court removed Bible reading and prayer from the schools. Since then the knowledge of God has been systematically removed from all areas of our society.

In direct proportion to the removal of the knowledge of God there also has been the acceptance of fornication, adultery and the promotion of homosexuality and child killing. The media and Hollywood glorify these lifestyles. The courts have established them as “rights.” The college campuses are a fertile ground for these lifestyles. Even political parties promote them.

It seems the collective thought of America is now almost very close to being reprobate. As the nation has turned from God, multitudes of people now live lies and America has become nearly a reprobate nation. This has happened in a very short time. Let no one try to fool you. If a person accepts or promotes homosexuality, to God, he is a reprobate. The education, position of power, social standing - including position of religious authority, or wealth, of this person does not matter to God: he is a reprobate. America has many reprobates in very powerful positions of authority.

There appears to be no let-up from those of a reprobate mind to promote this deadly lifestyle. To those who promote this lifestyle, this issue has become as a religion. Homosexuality looks so normal to the reprobate mind. Following God’s Word brings blessings, health, and long life; following the reprobate mind brings disease, death and destruction.

The Lord Jesus’ View of Homosexuality

There is no mistaking that in both the Old and New Testaments the homosexual act is identified as iniquity or a vile affection which is a grievous sin to God. In an attempt to neutralize the Bible, homosexuals and their supporters claim Lord Jesus never mentioned or condemned homosexuality. In their thinking, because He did not use the word homosexuality, then it must not violate God's word. This argument is constantly used by homosexuals and their advocates.

It is true the Bible does not use the word homosexual or homosexuality; while it is not true the Lord Jesus never condemned the act. The word homosexual was not coined as a word until the late 1800s or just a little over 100 years ago. The word was first used in Germany and then picked up later in 1892 in the English dictionary. The King James Version could not use this word because it was translated 300 years before the word was coined in the English!

The Lord Jesus very clearly condemned homosexuality. He used the word for His day which would have identified the homosexual act. The New Testament uses the word fornication to identify homosexuality. Once it is understood the New Testament used this word to identify homosexuality, then it is clear that the Lord Jesus condemned it.

The Book of Jude ties together homosexuality with the word fornication. The homosexuality of Sodom and Gomorrha was identified as fornication. The Bible warns that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha was an example to those who would practice this same fornication.

Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

The Greek word for fornication is ekporneuo, and it means to be utterly unchaste. It is the Greek word from which English derives the word pornography. A person who is utterly unchaste would have continuously unclean thoughts. That is why pornography is so dangerous because it can completely control the mind and make ones thoughts unchaste.

The Bible then defines fornication as any sexual activity outside of marriage. It is an inclusive term. Remember, marriage is between one man and one woman. The definition of fornication would then include: heterosexual relations before marriage, homosexual relations at any time, incest, bestiality, prostitution and pornography. All sex outside of marriage is considered fornication by God.

With this understanding that the New Testament identifies homosexuality as fornication, let's look and see what the Lord Jesus said about it. The Lord said that what comes forth from the spiritual heart of a man defiles him. Sin originates from the heart and then proceeds to action. Fornication is one of the sins that He listed which defiles a man.

Sin first originates in the heart, then is dwelt upon in the mind and then acted upon by the will. The Lord Jesus said that the act of fornication defiles a man. Fornication is lumped with the evils of murder, thefts, lying, etc. Both the books of Matthew and Mark record the Lord Jesus condemning fornication. He clearly addressed homosexuality and how evil it is. These Scriptures follow:

Mark 7:20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. (21) For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, (22) Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: (23) All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

Matthew 15:18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. (19) For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: (20) These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

The New Testament has more to say about fornication than just the Lord Jesus' statements that it comes from the evil of man's heart. In Scripture after Scripture, the Bible warns about the sin of fornication. The Bible in several places lists fornication with many other sins. These sins would include: adultery, idolatry, drunkenness, witchcraft, hatred, heresies and the list goes on and on. The sin of fornication/homosexuality is always listed with these other sins. In fact, fornication is usually one of the first sins listed. These Scriptures follow:



Galatians 5:19-21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness … and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Ephesians 5:3-7 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints … For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

Colossians 3:4-6 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:



All the above Scriptures give a severe warning to those who practice fornication/homosexuality and the other listed sins. Each section of Scripture states the wrath of God will come upon those who practice fornication and they will not inherit the kingdom of God . The Bible leaves no doubt that homosexuality is unacceptable to God. These verses first condemn homosexuality and then gives a stern warning to those that commit this act.

Galatians calls homosexuality the works of the flesh and those who practice it will not inherit the kingdom of God . Ephesians calls those that practice fornication the children of disobedience. And, a person is not to let anyone fool him with vain words about fornication because it will bring the wrath of God. In Colossians, we are told to put to death fornication because it will bring God’s wrath. Look at these statements from the Bible, warning not to commit the sin of homosexuality.



Colossians 3:6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

Ephesians 5:6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.

Galatians 5:21 … and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God .



Those that practice homosexuality are called the children of disobedience, and they will not inherit the kingdom of God . This is all clear and straight forward. A person does not need a doctorate in theology to understand that homosexuality is a sin that will block a person from the kingdom of God . It is so clear that a youngster can clearly understand this.

If it is so clear and easy to understand, why then is homosexuality being presented as wholesome and loving? The answer lies in that the homosexuals and their advocates have rejected the authority of the Bible. Their minds have become blinded. There appears to be no fear of God in them, and the stern warnings of the Bible are ignored if not outright mocked. This is an extremely serious state to be in. The warnings are still there as they were 2,000 years ago. God in His mercy holds back judgment, but His mercy can only last so long until eventual judgment.

Why is homosexuality so special of a sin that it deserves promotion as a constitutional right? Is there a move to say that prostitution is no longer a sin? Or, that adultery now is wonderful and no longer wrong? How about drunkenness; is it now permissible and sanctioned by God? Does God now condone bestiality? The reason homosexuality is so special is because it is the sign of a reprobate mind. Those who have developed this mind or are in the process of developing a reprobate mind flock to defend and promote homosexuality. In a real way, the promotion of homosexuality can be viewed as the end of the line of rebellion against God.

In our day, homosexuality has been plucked from the list of iniquity as being a vile affection. It now has been decreed by many factions of civil government as being a right. In many Christian denominations, it has been declared a loving relationship that is acceptable and blessed by God. God never changed His mind about fornication!

There is a move on within these denominations to even "marry" homosexuals. One of the leading forces in America for advancing homosexuality comes from within these religious denominations. What is the final authority? Is the Bible the final authority or some clergy that states homosexuality is now acceptable to God and then conducts a same sex wedding? The Bible's warnings are the same today as they were thousands of years ago. God's plan for a family unit is one man and one woman with children. Anything outside this plan is either adultery or fornication as there is no middle ground.

The Supreme Court of the United States or some denomination can create an Ordinance of the Amorites, but this in no way alters what the Bible states. Many religious leaders are in rebellion against God and are false teachers. They are now deceiving multitudes of people about the character of God, His word and homosexuality. They have developed a reprobate mind and are trying to indoctrinate others with this mind set. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing. It is startling to think that reprobates stand in pulpits of churches and speak 180 degrees from what the Bible teaches. Seminaries are now producing hundreds if not thousands of reprobates.

We now live in a time of terrible deception when fornication can be promoted as wholesome and accepted by God. The Bible warns of false teachers who will bring in awful heresies. These false teachers will speak evil of those who follow the truth of God's word. The Scriptures warn about false teachers who lie in wait to deceive. The following verses warn about false teachers and their heresies.



2 Peter 2:1,2 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

Ephesians 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.



Why God Never Changes About Homosexuality



Because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy 1Peter 1:16



God never changed His prohibition against fornication and never will. The reason for this is very simple. God's very nature is holy. The very heart of God is holiness. Fornication is against His character, and He could never condone it or He would cease to be holy: just as God could never condone prostitution, pornography, abortion, hatred etc. God is not going to make an exception for homosexuality.

It seems that many people have completely lost the concept of God's holiness. Or, that God maybe be offended by the homosexual act. It seems that God is out of the picture and what replaced Him are the feelings of man. The modern thinking is, if a minister blesses homosexuality then God must accept it.

God will never accept fornication because it is sin that goes against His holiness. People can deny God's word. They can try and deny the truth of His word about fornication. They can lie about the Bible's teachings. They can twist the word to suit their own agenda. They can do all this, but it will never change the nature of God who is holy. God is holy and will always be holy.

Both the Old and New Testaments give us a glimpse of heaven and God on His throne. On both occasions there are angelic beings around Him. These beings are before the very presence of God. In His presence, they praise and acknowledge His holiness. The following Scriptures reveal this:



Isaiah 6:2,3 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

Revelation 4:8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.



Because God is holy, those that believe in the Lord Jesus are called to follow Him in holiness. That is why the Bible says that fornicators, adulterers, drunkards, idolaters, etc. will not inherit the kingdom of God . The Bible leaves no doubt that those who practice fornication/homosexuality will not inherit the kingdom of God . It really comes down to a choice of the will. The choice is God and holiness or fornication and uncleanness.



Romans 6:16 Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?



A person cannot have both God and fornication because God is holy, and He will always remain holy. Whoever thinks he can practice homosexuality, encourage or condone it, and be accepted by God is horribly deceived: "Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am the holy.” These people are living a life in total deception.


God’s Way of Dealing With Homosexuality

1 Corinthians 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Because God is holy, He can never accept homosexuality. Fornication is against both His nature and plan for man. However, God does not leave homosexuals or anyone for that matter condemned to hell. He provided all that was needed to deliver fornicators from the powerful grip of this sin. Through the death of the Lord Jesus to pay the price for sin and the power of His resurrection to overcome the grip of the sin, homosexuality can be broken in a person’s life.

The Bible explicitly states that fornicators can be freed of this sin. They can be washed, cleansed and justified from homosexuality. Justified means that the person can be treated by God just as if they never had sinned. The Bible in Corinthians starts off by stating that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God . Then it lists a series of sins which start with fornication. And, then it goes on to end by showing the believers are no longer in bondage to these sins. This section of Scripture from 1 Corinthians follows:

1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God ? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind …

(11) And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

God is able to break the hold of fornication in a person's life. This is the glory of the gospel of the Lord Jesus. It is powerful enough to break the hold of any sin in a person's life. It is almost criminal that clergy preach that it is acceptable with God to be a homosexual, and yet the saving gospel of the Lord Jesus is there to free homosexuals from this sin and give them eternal life. These religious leaders are truly wolves in sheep’s clothing. The Bible is clear that the homosexual can be free and live a life of holiness in which the end result is eternal life with God. The end result of fornication is spiritual death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ. The verses to show this follow:

Romans 6:22,23 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The Bible states that during the time just prior to the glorious Second Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ the majority of the people in the world will turn to wickedness. Not all the people will turn but the majority will. One of the sins they refuse to repent from is fornication. This sin is going to be in full bloom immediately prior to the Second Coming. It seems the world is heading into this time period with the explosion of homosexual acceptance and promotion in all areas but especially in the Christian denominations. The “church” is in the leadership of promoting the Ordinances of the Amorites.

Revelation 9:21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.

This is an unprecedented time in history. The acceptance of fornication/homosexuality is actually being preached from pulpits. Homosexuals are standing boldly in pulpits pretending to be preachers of righteousness. They are deceiving and being deceived. God never changed His position on fornication.

Those that practice this sin will not inherit the kingdom of God contrary to what false teachers may say from the pulpits. The Bible is the final authority not false teachers. The Lord Jesus said His word is the final authority:

"He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day." John 12:48

Full article:
http://www.defendproclaimthefaith.org/homosexuality_and_god_1.html