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Question: Is ‘political correctness’ and ‘multiculturalism’
supported by God’s Word? This question has
been reworded to omit the glandular ferocity of the original one by people
who are cascading into social madness in defence of it. It’s become a
prime-time absurdity in a world gone mad. |
Answer: Political correctness is a modern invention of a
society gone mad. Humanity has survived for thousands of years without it, and
they have done it quite successfully. For all those millennia, no-one was
inflicted with guilt because others raped, robbed and
murdered, nor were they besotted with feelings that the fault lay with them and
the rest of society. They never experienced the mind-draining numbness of
trying to rehabilitate evil-doers. Retribution was the prevailing legal concept
that solved the problems relating to the activities of the lawless. If someone
murdered someone else then he was denied the opportunity to do it again. Such
people were considered unworthy of life. In a well-ordered society these
precepts seemed to work well – until now!
Before the advent of
political correctness, when one went to a wedding one could be assured that the
bride and groom were of opposite genders and capable of producing children. In
this atmosphere they were joyful and happy occasions. To everyone it was
obvious that God created man and woman for this very purpose. And then about 20
or 30 years ago cracks began to appear in this philosophy. Closeted faggots
began to appear en masse claiming the right to ‘love’ others of their own gender.
In time the rights of
evil-doers became greater than that of the ordinary, law-abiding citizen. When
monstrous acts of murder were committed, the killer was afforded more rights
than the victim, and the surviving loved-ones had to continue their lives
grieving, knowing that justice would pass them by. They would observe the
killer standing in court, well-dressed, well-fed, and treated with the utmost
respect and consideration. Mothers had a right to wonder whose side society was
on. Deterrence became a dirty word as the focus became rehabilitation,
and quixotically, the ‘right to life’ for the most vicious, evil
creatures one could imagine. I hasten to add that those most glandular in the
defence of the rights of these monsters are the same people who don’t
believe that innocent babies have a right to life. They happily
subscribe to third semester ‘partial birth abortion’. Suddenly
murderers are more worthy of life than the unfortunate victim. In the
hurly-burly of the moment, a person could be verbally or even physically
assaulted by people crazed with emotional lunacy at the mere mention of the
concept of ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’.
The ‘age of enlightenment’
began to usher in new concepts as the affluent were blamed for the misfortunes
of the poor. Inequality became the catch-word, and the misdirected and
erroneous philosophy that ‘all men were created equal and endowed with
certain unalienable rights’ began to be used as a social tool for
reform. All that remained was to find out what those unalienable rights were
and vigorously apply them. In the first place, The Declaration of Independence
was wrong in assuming that all men were created equal – they are not! And in
the second place, no one is endowed with unalienable rights as the world is
about to find out. And this is the subject matter of this article. It’s called
Bible prophecy.
Minority groups milked the
public purse for all it was worth, while demanding more and more rights. But it
wasn’t enough to ostracize the working-class and force them to pay tribute to
the undeserving, the concept became global, and the rich nations were responsible
for the plight of poor nations. People were drenched with pictorial evidence of
the plight of other nations, and guilt set in. Western governments assured us
all that alleviating the suffering of people ruled by corrupt governments was
an aspiring virtue to ‘win hearts and minds’ in third world
countries. And so the public purse was milked even more. After decades of
this madness the only fruit borne is the venomous hatred of the beneficiaries.
So let’s divest ourselves of
emotional concepts for a moment and examine what the Creator God has to say on
this matter. First of all, though it may shock some people, God has no interest
in over 90% of humanity. In fact their plight demonstrates the thrust of all
that God has to say. They live like pigs because they are not
God’s people. Of all the families of the earth, God chose only one group of
people. And He was perfectly fair in doing so. Does anyone imagine that other’s
children are more deserving of love and sustenance than their own children? No?
And neither does God! So let’s nail down God’s feelings here and now: Amos 3:1-2 "Hear
this word the LORD has spoken against you, O people
of Israel – against the whole family I
brought up out of Egypt: 2 "YOU ONLY HAVE I
CHOSEN OF ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH; therefore I will punish
you for all your sins." And for emphasis, these things are
repeated in Deut 7:6, Deut 14:2, and in a
slightly different way in 2Sam 7:2-3. And
so as long as God’s promise to the Patriarchs still stands this will be so
forever. God gives life and He can take it away, and no apologies are
necessary. He is the Creator God and He decides how things will be. If God
decrees that any city has no further right to life, then He will destroy it, as
He did with
As a matter of fact, the
Book of Amos speaks against the House of Israel because of their sins and warns
of punishment. In the next verse of this Book, V3,
God begins to explain a few home truths: V3-4
"Do two walk together unless they have
agreed to do so? 4 Does a lion roar in the thicket
when he has no prey? Does he growl in his den when he has caught
nothing?" Political correctness would have gained no traction
unless people caved in and agreed to walk in unison in support of fanciful
ideas. With enough propaganda anything can sound feasible, and God holds the
whole nation collectively responsible. Does a lion roar in the thicket
when he has no prey? This would alert the prey to his presence and
would serve as a warning – so lion’s don’t do that. Lions roar when they have
caught their prey. God’s purpose in mentioning this was not
to give a zoology lesson but to reveal something of great importance. In
the next couple of verse He speaks of snares being set and traps being sprung
(we’ll put a marker on this and come back to it). Then in V6 He speaks of the trumpet sounding disaster for
a city, and He takes credit for bringing this disaster. And this
is where the punishment aspect comes in. In keeping with God’s established
practice, He warns His people
So how come so many have
published their own renditions of the meaning of these Seven Seals with no
Bible support for their theories? They came up with famines and fantasy to
explain the meaning, but could provide no conclusive proof from the Bible. Some
spewed out their ‘prophecies’ claiming guidance by the Spirit of Prophecy, but
were quick to assure everyone they were not prophets (just
in case their prophecies failed – which they always did!) In spite of all the
lies they told in God’s Name, they had no conscience because they never
claimed to be prophets. So there! Adopting the name of a prophet was okay as
long as they didn’t actually claim to be a prophet, because they didn’t want to
provoke the specter of Isa 8:20.
You could hardly describe such people as servants of God!
So the Seven Seals relate
to the only people God ever chose out of all the families of the earth, and
they relate to God’s punishment of them. At the time of
their fulfillment, God says, "Who can but
prophecy?" In time of war, both sides of the conflict
traditionally prophesy good outcomes for their side. But God is not talking
about these ‘prophets’! He is speaking of His servants the prophets.
Only these can prophesy according to God’s instructions. That’s why the Seven
Seals were sealed – as Daniel indicated, for
the time of the end (Dan 12:13),
which has suddenly come upon us.
Just to offset any
suggestion that I might support the madness of the Democrats,
And just a caveat or two!
The American soldiers went into battle knowing it could cost their lives,
but they went willingly. They went in honour of their
country and with the sure knowledge they were engaging a known enemy. But in
the heat of the battle alarming restrictions were placed on them, preventing
them from fighting a real war and executing their duties as they had been
trained. ‘Winning hearts and minds’ became more important than
winning the war. Sacrificing a few soldiers seemed a small price to pay to
enhance the pomposity of the ‘political correctness’ brigade. The Democrats
began to invent their own rules of war and enforce them through calculated
attacks on the President. Dredging the cesspools of reason, they came up with
all sorts of impediments to victory. Collateral damage and the killing of
‘innocent’ civilians became a hanging offence even in the fog of war. They
pontificated from their armchairs in
My opinions are not
important, but God’s are! There are right ways and wrong ways to conduct a war,
and God gave many examples in the Bible. As Daniel said, wars will
continue to the end and desolations have been decreed (Dan 9:26). Desolations are the unpleasant side of
war, when cities and people are destroyed and destitution sets in. Under such circumstances
this is make or break time. In reference to the prophecy of all these things,
Isaiah wrote this: Isa 8:20-21 "To
the Law and to the Testimony! If they do not speak according to
this Word, they have no light of dawn. 21 Distressed
and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished,
they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their
God. 22 Then they will look toward the earth and see only
distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter
darkness." That would be right, wouldn’t it! It’s all
God’s fault because they refused to listen.
But right at the end of the description of their ranting behaviour are four
words: ‘thrust into utter darkness’, and the Bible student will understand
that this means death – the ultimate darkness.
And just to put Isaiah’s
writing in context, we get a picture of the timeframe in the next few verses: Isa 9:1 "Nevertheless,
there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he
humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali,
but in the future he will honor Galilee
of the Gentiles, by the way of the sea, along the Jordan – 2 The
people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those
living in the land of the shadow of Death a light has dawned. 3
You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before you
as people rejoice at the harvest, as men rejoice when dividing the
plunder." Was this fulfilled in the time of Isaiah? Well
Jesus was still quoting it hundreds of years later as a future event. These
people are living in the northern part of
Now back to the words of
Amos about the prophecies concerning the House of Israel. Amos 3:5 "Does a
bird fall into a trap on the ground where no snare has been set? Does a
trap spring up from the earth when there is nothing to
catch?" God obviously has something in mind in mentioning this. The
reference to a bird is an interesting one. One of
God has made it all clear
from days of old, but no-one understood it. But now God is strengthening His
warning of impending desolations.
Isa 31:1-9 "Woe to those who go down to
Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in the multitude of their
chariots and in the great strength of their horsemen, but do not
look to the Holy One of Israel, or seek help from the LORD. 2
Yet He too is wise and can bring disaster; He does not
take back his words. He will rise up against the house of
the wicked, AGAINST THOSE WHO HELP EVILDOERS."
Wow! This is what we have been saying all along, and at a time when no-one else
could tell the difference between good and evil (see Heb 5:14). This is largely due to the social
disease called ‘political correctness’ that has afflicted the
whole House of Israel. So the House of Israel should not get their hopes up
that
Continuing in Isaiah 31: V3 "But the
Egyptians are men and not God; their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the
LORD stretches out his hand, he who helps will stumble, he
who is helped will fall; both will perish together."
But now God gets right to the point, speaking first about the Lion,
and concluding with the King of Righteousness and the Kingdom
of God: V4 "This is what the LORD says to me: "As a LION
growls, a GREAT LION over his prey – and though a whole
band of shepherds is called together against him, He is not frightened
by their shouts or disturbed by their clamor – so
the LORD Almighty will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and on its heights."
Don’t say we didn’t warn you! A whole band of shepherds – it
seems everyone thinks he’s a shepherd. But these shepherds make the mistake of
gathering against Him. Probably streets rallies or something similar, but God
will be blamed for everything. But God is not listening to them, and their
cries are to no avail. V5 "Like birds hovering
overhead, the LORD Almighty will shield
V6 "Return
to Him you have so greatly revolted against, O
Israelites. 7 For in that day every one of you will reject
the idols of silver and gold your sinful hands have made."
Notice how God links ‘returning to Him’ with the expensive ‘idols
of gold and silver their sinful hands have made’? Now God demands a tenth of
everything they earn before they can return to Him (Mal 3:7-10). This applies not only to the whole
House of Israel, but also the ‘whole band of shepherds’ who’ve
been lying in His Name and collecting His tithe when they had no right to do
so.
The Assyrian Empire is
virtually the same territory as the Babylonian Empire, and the Medo-Persian Empire after that. It so happens that this
same territory destroyed and captured the northern Ten Tribes of Israel
following their rebellion against the God and His Holy City. And they also
rejected the
I hope you understand what
justice means (see Rev 2:26-27) and just
remember who wrote these words in the Book of Revelation! Forget all about
‘political correctness’, this is reality! So it should be obvious to all that
these verses are speaking of the here and now! There is a danger of course, if
you have been listening to the ‘whole band of shepherds’ who have
been ganging up on God, then there is the likelihood that you won’t believe
anything that God has said. It now emerges that this ‘whole
band of shepherds’ are the very worst of the
examples of political correctness. They’ve been at the forefront
of promoting it. So if anyone numbers themselves among them, expect
the worst!
Jesus spoke some cryptic
words when He said to those who have will more be given, but those who have
not, what they have will be taken away. We’d be left to ponder the meaning of
this if it were not explained in other verses. First and foremost, Jesus came only
to the ‘lost sheep of
So the ‘holier than thou’
brigade is off and running, ignoring their own faults and castigating others. Invariably,
these attacks are either about sex or money, and the obsession is with
celebrities. They hunt them down ruthlessly – always seeking a scalp! A word
out of place, an innocent faux pas, can destroy their lives. As God indicates
in the passage above, He hates the lying and the cursing,
and it’s now breaking all bounds of decency. Now God is about to
strip away all the assets of Ephraim and give them what they deserve and they
will waste away in the sure knowledge that they have been deceived and senseless
– like a silly dove! (Hos 7:11).
Now the West has gone
beyond any form of rational behaviour, and have set
themselves up for destruction and desolation. What is more, political
correctness has been a tool to weaken the nations of
People have some funny
ideas about the God they purport to serve. Don’t they understand the Scriptures
that Christ used? When God sent the House of Israel into a campaign against His
enemies, recall the instructions they were given. The overall instructions were
that all the people living in the Promised Land had to be driven out or killed
without mercy and without exception. And for all those who believe this to be
just ancient history and that everything has now changed, let me illuminate a
future event that will verify God’s feelings in this matter: Rev 2:26-27 "To
him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the
nations – 27 ‘he will rule them with an iron scepter; he will dash them to pieces like pottery’ just
as I have received authority from my Father. 28 I will also give
him the Morning Star (Sun of Righteousness –
Mal 4:2). 29
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit
says to the Churches (plural)."
Just like Christ they will be given authority over the Gentile nations, and
those who don’t respond to that authority will be dashed to pieces like
pottery! And you will note that this is speaking to the Churches.
The Churches must overcome to the bitter end to earn this authority, and the bitter end means death
at the hands of the Gentiles. It’s not a pleasant prospect, but just remember the appalling nonsense you believed all your life,
and how you preferred to believe men rather than God. Do you believe God’s
servants the prophets now? Or do you prefer to wait a little longer to see if
what they teach comes true? This is not the type of faith
that gives you a place in this Brotherhood, but rather relegates you to the
fortunes of the Churches and what they must face. God gives the example of the
type of faith He requires: Heb 11:1 "Now faith is being SURE of what
we hope for and CERTAIN of what we do not see. 2
This is what the ancients were commended for." I
hasten to add that being in this Brotherhood will not be easy, because we have
a very important function, but at least you will know in advance the beginning to
the end, and the end will be glorious. But most importantly, you will be in the
service of God. It’s your choice! But remember that this is a ministry of
repentance just as was that of John the Baptist. In other words, you come cap in hand and repentant for your appalling former
treatment of God’s Word or you’ll be rejected. And leave your old heresy behind
you! Many are called but few are chosen. We in this Brotherhood are not
reeds shaken in the wind; we don’t flip-flop all over the place.
We know what we believe, because we believe God and were
taught by Him. Surely you know that all God’s sons are taught by
Him (John 6:45, Isa
54:13). The average parishioner knows very well that the nonsense
they have believed all their lives was not taught by God!
It was taught by men who never really knew the Mighty Christ and who never
really acknowledged obedience to God.
The Tribes of Israel are
now facing hostility from all the Gentile nations around the world, and daily
the hostility grows stronger. Does anyone imagine that the Gentiles are
suddenly going to reform and start behaving themselves? It’s only the fear of
attrition that has held them in check for so long now, but this is rapidly
changing. They’ve become emboldened by the weak, cowardly behaviour of those
who send young men into war with the instructions that they must only fire when
fired upon. The enemy is the enemy is the enemy! It’s so ludicrous that
soldiers almost have to interview the enemy to determine whether they’re
terrorists before engaging them. If anyone believes this is the way to wage
war, then they’ve got to be crazy!
So why aren’t the Muslims
living in
So now these buffoons have
left themselves wide open to God’s retribution, and justice will prevail.
Here’s my prediction to
the reader: In the day when the
But we are getting ahead
of ourselves.
Almighty God gives us the
option of believing Him or not. For those who believe Him a whole new world of
understanding opens up. God provides the evidence to show that their belief is
vindicated. There was a time when nations went to war with extreme brutality,
killing, raping, pillaging and enslaving. These were the fortunes of war. To
the victor went the spoils. And while we can look back at history with extreme
dismay at the horror of it all, there was no alternative, and defeat meant
certain death or slavery.
So it’s hardly surprising
that in the twilight of humanity’s rule on earth, someone should come to the
conclusion that there are more humane ways of waging war. The question was
always going to be ‘Would it work?’ Well, we are seeing the effects of it
today, and it certainly doesn’t work! But the reasons why are still not clear
to the Western world. The West has been unable to defeat a few ragtag armies,
and these Muslim swine continue to wage a war of attrition. Why are the
Coalition Forces going house to house rounding up insurgents? The right
approach is to tell the towns or cities to deliver up the insurgents or face
certain death. If they don’t comply, then the whole town or city should be
bombed back to the stone-age and everyone in it killed. I tell you that after a
few cities were totally destroyed these evil swine would be delivering up their
own mothers.
Today, the mightiest power
is in the hands of a beneficial nation that has never
colonized any nation through war. The world should be grateful to live in an
era of such human compassion and tolerance. But are the nations grateful to
have justice and mercy dispensed by the mightiest power on earth, and the
magnificent benevolence of the American nation? Like dogs their enemies have
turned on the hand that feeds them, the very nation that dispenses freedom to all
who choose to behave like decent human beings. Instead of appreciation they
have despised
This present global
situation is the lesson of the ages, and one which God foreshadowed because He
alone understands humanity. The majority of human beings living on this earth
are evil creatures that must be contained and even suppressed or their actions
become boundless and unrestrained. It’s no secret that kindness and generosity are
not appreciated by the heathen, and some bitter lessons
must be learned now to forestall the inevitable. Unfortunately, political
correctness has inhibited this type of reasoning, and led the formerly
rational-minded to the path of destruction.
And what a time to embark
of this type of madness! The great experiment has already failed countless
times, because the true nature of humanity has been ignored. Some people may
find fault with God from the accounts of the Bible, and many have expressed
this, but the world is about to learn what justice is, and against whom God
will exact it. Clearly, showing kindness to evil creatures and trying to ‘win
their hearts and minds’ has not worked, nor could it ever! But it
seemed right at the time to those devoid of God’s Holy Spirit.
In the final curtain call
to restrain the nations, God has appointed the son of Joseph, the mighty
Ephraim, the mightiest power on earth to demonstrate
the folly of appeasement of God’s enemies. To this end, they are trying their
own methods to weave their spell over the heathen, and to bring them to
prosperity and peace. But
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This is the article about
the evacuation of Americans from Abu Graib prison in
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=S0NFQ4OVPSVHJQFIQMFSFFOAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2006/09/10/wirq10.xml
Tortured screams ring out as Iraqis take over Abu Ghraib.
It’s a real eye-opener! It
makes one wonder if
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God holds every Muslim on
earth accountable for the atrocities committed by their nations or leaders in
the name of their religion, and every last one of them will suffer the
consequences of extinction. Similarly, God holds the whole House of Israel
guilty for the actions of their leaders. The innocent blood shed because of the
madness of ‘political correctness’ and the unhealthy attitude
towards the enemy will result in severe retribution, and God makes it very
clear what this retribution will be. It’s called Bible prophecy and it gives
specific details of all that is now rapidly unfolding and the final outcome. If
you value your lives, stop listening to the hypocritical teachings of your
local preacher; he will lead you to destruction. Of course, you may not believe
this until the bleak winds of war enter your neighbourhood, but then it will be
too late.
God is preparing to teach
the lesson of the ages, and this time the nations of
I would remind the reader
that Jesus came only to the House of Israel – the ‘lost sheep of
God asks the dwellers
of
As for the vineyard,
God also says that briers and thorns will grow there. You’ll
learn the identity of these further in this article. They are presently growing
in
But there is hope for
God’s vineyard after He has dealt with them and also the ruler of
the heavenly realms that engineered their demise: Isa 27:1-6
"In that day, the LORD will punish with His sword,
His fierce, great and powerful sword, Leviathan the gliding
serpent, Leviathan the coiling serpent; He will slay the monster of the sea. 2
In that day – "Sing about a fruitful vineyard:
3 I, the LORD, watch over it; I water it continually. I guard it day
and night so that no one may harm it. 4 I am not angry. If
only there were BRIERS AND THORNS confronting me! I WOULD MARCH
AGAINST THEM IN
Just a further bit of
confirmation about briers and thorns and who they are: Eze 28:24
"No longer will the people of
If it wasn’t bad enough
that God identifies these treacherous briers and thorns, God also likens
We warned at the very
outset of this war that failure would result unless
So the spin-off of all
this is that they like to add pharisaic reasoning to promote ‘political
correctness’ where consideration is given to those least worthy of it.
Today it has taken lunacy right off the scale. Those who should appreciate that
they are the beneficiaries of ‘multiculturalism’, which is the
major offshoot of ‘political correctness’, have turned against
their benefactors for entitlements of which they are undeserving. In truth, all
this ‘political correctness’ has done nothing to enhance the
benefits of any sector of the community. All it has done is to make them
greedier and more demanding and actual appreciation is non-existent. No amount
of compromise is ever enough!
Of all the nations on the
face of the earth, the nation most susceptible to the the
crazy reasoning of political correctness is the
It’s interesting that the Ephraimite rebel Jeroboam was so persuasive at the time of
the rebellion, and managed to weave a web of deceit so convincingly, that Ten of the Tribes followed him. What is so surprising about
this Jeroboam is that God Himself appointed him. Jeroboam was a wise man and
had previously been elevated to a position of authority by Solomon. He was
obviously a wise and practical man. God had in mind to alienate ten of the
Tribes of Israel from the House of David, and to send them far away at a future
time. To begin this process, God chose Jeroboam and gave him rule over these
ten Tribes.
This is the account: 1Kings 11:26-40 "Also,
Jeroboam son of Nebat rebelled against the king. He
was one of Solomon’s officials, an Ephraimite
from Zeredah, and his mother was a widow named Zeruah. 27 Here is the account of how he
rebelled against the king: Solomon had built the supporting terraces and had filled
in the gap in the wall of the city of
As a point of interest,
Jeroboam was to get ten Tribes, but Rehoboam the son of Solomon
was to get just one Tribe. What about the other Tribe that makes
up the 12 Tribes of Israel? This was the Tribe of Levi, and God didn’t give
this Tribe to anyone! The Tribe of Levi is God’s very own Tribe (Num 8:13-14), and this Tribe has been set aside
for a divine purpose.
V34 "But
I will not take the whole kingdom out of Solomon's hand; I have made him ruler
all the days of his life for the sake of David my servant, whom I
chose and who observed my Commands and Statutes. 35
I will take the kingdom from his son’s hands and give you ten tribes.
36 I will give one tribe to his son so that David my
servant may always have a lamp before me in
Did God know that Jeroboam
would turn against Him? Well, God certainly gave him the option to obey Him and
to lead the people in righteousness. And as a reward, he was told that God
would make his dynasty as enduring as David’s. Nevertheless,
Jeroboam had no desire to trust God for the outcome, and set about to make his
own destiny. When people set their hearts on power and influence, they don’t
care who they trample on to achieve their aims. Jeroboam had been the recipient
of a promise from God delivered by His servant the prophet, and Jeroboam saw it
fulfilled perfectly. But it wasn’t enough, and soon Jeroboam was going the way
so typical of people who don’t have God’s Holy Spirit. In his mad power
struggle, he began to plot against God and His Holy City Jerusalem, and in so doing,
earned God’s eternal contempt!
This man was an advisor to
Solomon until the latter part of Solomon’s life. He became alienated after
Solomon heard that a prophet of God confirmed that Jeroboam had been chosen by
God to rule over ten Tribes of Israel. Then Solomon sought to kill him.
Jeroboam fled to
So Jeroboam decided that
to further consolidate his position, he would proclaim freedom of religion,
where everyone had the right to worship as they saw fit. But there was a
problem! If Jeroboam encouraged the worship of God in
Naturally enough, God was
angered at their conduct, and stated that He would never forget what Jeroboam
had done. One of Jeroboam’s first acts was to cast two golden calves and
state that these were the gods that led them out of Egypt. The people
must surely have realized that this was the sin that nearly destroyed them
after the House of Israel had left
Not one of them could have
honestly believed that a golden calf idol had led them out of
It’s no coincidence that
God describes Ephraim as a heifer – a female calf (Hos 10:11). This is a subtle reminder that the Ephraimites are reluctant to believe that God led them out
of captivity in
It’s fitting that since
power was thrust into the hands of the Tribe of Ephraim through Jeroboam, the
most influential one of his time, that God should again
choose Ephraim to be a formidable power in this end of the age. And why should
anyone be surprised? Bible prophecy speaks extensively of Ephraim, and indeed a
whole Book – the Book of Hosea – is dedicated to him. There are severe warnings
in this Book of Hosea, specifically for the Tribe of Ephraim.
The Worldwide Church of
God convinced themselves that
After 6,000 long years,
humanity is virtually unchanged, and nothing has served to moderate the
murderous intent of the heathen nations. In human terms, the House of Israel
has stood out as a beacon to the rest of the world in lifestyle and prosperity.
In the Book of Hosea, God points out that Ephraim’s fruitfulness,
that is, his prosperity, has come from
Him (Hos 14:8). God also adds something else in the very
next verse: V9 "Who
is wise? He will realize these things. Who is
discerning? He will understand them. The ways of
the LORD are right; the righteous walk in them, but
the rebellious stumble in them." It’s a fitting conclusion
to a Book dedicated to Ephraim, and which specifically says that Ephraim is not
wise! As a matter of fact, God describes Ephraim this way: Hos 7:11
"Ephraim is like a dove, easily
deceived and senseless…" These dove-like
overtures to God’s ancient enemies that surround the
From time to time, you do
hear a still, small voice emanating from someone in
Time is running out for
Ephraim to come to their senses: Hos 7:8-9 "Ephraim
mixes with the nations; Ephraim is a flat cake not turned over (that is,
soggy on top). Foreigners sap his strength, but he does not realize it. His
hair is sprinkled with grey, but he does not notice."
I guess they are all too busy talking to notice. Opinions, opinions! They never
end! Only a complete fool would suggest that Islam is a peaceful religion. And
who was this designed to fool? Well, it certainly hasn’t fooled Islam! They’ve
been indoctrinated to hate Westerners, and Americans
in particular, and they are amazed that with all the evidence today, that
anyone would believe that Islam wants peace. Jihad means ‘holy war’ – it
doesn’t mean holy peace!
Originally, the dreamers
in
The above verses quoted
from the Book of Hosea speak of a woman in childbirth preparing
for delivery but nothing happens. And it’s a reference to Ephraim! We’ve
covered all this in other articles, so we’ll be brief. It’s actually a
reference to a nation being born in one day, and it’s a woman
that gives birth to this nation. Isa 66:8-10 "Who has
ever heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen such things? Can a country
be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a
moment? Yet no sooner is
I don’t even need to suggest
the overwhelming force necessary to establish a nation in a single day, because
is should be obvious to all. But the
None of this augers well
for Ephraim or
So of course there
will be no delivery for Ephraim! As a matter of fact,
Did you see
And this brings us back to
the big split-up between
Indeed Ephraim will
eventually return to God and their ancestral homeland. Highways and signposts
will be set up to receive them, but not until they have suffered the
consequences of their sins against God. These consequences will yield a time of
death and destruction unparalleled in human history. A time of such monstrous
cruelty that it defies the imagination. The truth is that Satan and his demons
have manipulative control over everyone who doesn’t have God’s Holy Spirit.
Every human being is susceptible to his manipulation, and he is the master of
lies and distortion. Those who live by every word of God and who have God’s
Holy Spirit should not succumb to it. Sadly, many of those who do have God’s
Holy Spirit have so diminished it that it has flamed out. Their lamps went out
when they refused to believe God, choosing to believe only lying, deceptive
men. Men who introduced destructive doctrine to weaken them, and who only
desired to enhance their own image. They twisted and perverted everything with
stories they had made up (2Pet 2:3) and
their destruction awaits them.
But what of the rest of
the House of Israel who have no knowledge of God and have never even heard of
God’s Holy Spirit as a lamp in their lives to illuminate the pathways? People
who have never had any desire to live by God’s Word – how will they fare?
God’s Word imparts
knowledge and understanding as a bulwark to Satan’s influence. The hearers
of God’s Word must also be doers of God’s Word. The Spirit of God
is with those who listen to Him, and the option exists for
the Spirit of God to be in them. God has made it clear
that the House of Israel will be the recipient of God’s Holy Spirit at a later
time when He will pour it out upon them – that is, the remnant
that survive and who return to their ancestral homeland. Rom 9:27-28 "Isaiah
cries out concerning
The Apostles and Prophets
of old knew and understood what to expect at the end of the age and the
finality of everything that is written, and duly reported it. How odd it is
that they saw it all so clearly, yet those today who
are living in it are unable to believe what they are seeing.
Paul added more: Rom 11:26 "I do
not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be
conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full
number of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will
be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he
will turn godlessness away from Jacob. 27 And this is my
Covenant with them when I take away their sins." So we are
presently waiting for the full number of Gentiles to come in – TO
THE NATIONS OF
And one other thing needs
to be emphasized: ‘For the Lord will carry
out His sentence with speed and finality’. So who is God
speaking about? Paul was quoting from Isa 10:22-23.
Lo and behold, this chapter speaks of the Assyrian destruction of
Ephraim’s rule of
So Paul was illuminating
the message of Isaiah chapter 10 for us
all. And pertinent to the subject matter at hand is this verse: Isa 10:17 "The
Light of
Thankfully, God has chosen
a few enlightened ones to accompany the House of Israel into captivity. These
are the people who received God’s Holy Spirit and lived in obedience to God
Laws. They began their spiritual journey in the Worldwide Church of God and did
indeed receive God’s Holy Spirit. And with commiserations for all the other
churches, God only raised up one shepherd over this little flock of the Church
that Christ built, and God actually named him in the Bible through a parable.
But this is the subject matter of another article, which can be found in the
Q&A section of our website. So these few saints (a saint is someone
who has God’s Holy Spirit), probably numbering about 7,000, will have
an important role to play in the rescue of the House of Israel. But first they
must be prepared to give their lives as Jesus did. They must remember their
pledge at baptism as they face the Great Tribulation.
For the rest of the House
of Israel, they must come to the realization of why the disaster has befallen
them. And they’ll begin to do this when they divest themselves of the stupidity
of political correctness, multiculturalism, and all the other mad nonsense by
which they’ve been besotted. Then they might come to the realization of where
their salvation lies. They’ll come to the realization that salvation means
something more than the silly teachings of this world’s churches. Then their
hope will be to be rescued while they still live,
or to be resurrected after giving their lives for their friends
(a point made by Jesus: John 15:13 "Greater love has no one than this, that he
lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if
you do what I command.") They must follow the Lord Christ!
For the present, they must
be obedient to God if the Holy Spirit is to be with them
in the holocaust they now face. After a short time of about two years, they’ll
start receiving a little help. This will follow the prophesied famine of
God’s Word (Amos 8:11-12) and
after that time, they will start to understand what has happened and why. God’s
Holy Spirit will impart this knowledge, and the Spirit will be with
them, though not yet in them (this
principle can be understood from John 14:17).
It will be a physical realization of their demise, and some will begin to trim
their lamps in preparation for lighting them. God has predicted that five
of the virgins (Tribes) of
All Bible students must
realize that from ancient times, the final destination of God’s people is the
But there will be a time
of gathering for the faithful, and this is very much at odds with the teachings
of the churches, and for that matter, the pathetic ‘prophetic’ doctrine of the
WCG. The faithful saints who aspire to this gathering will be killed first! And
this is the best possible resurrection – the same type of resurrection as
Jesus. We have a foretaste of this as it happened to the ancients and which is
recorded in Heb 11:35 "Women received back their dead, raised to life
again. Others were tortured and refused to be released, SO
THAT THEY MIGHT GAIN A BETTER RESURRECTION. 36 Some faced
jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. 37
They were stoned n; they were sawed in two; they were put to
death by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute,
persecuted and mistreated, 38 the world was not worthy of them.
They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground. 39
THESE WERE ALL COMMENDED FOR THEIR FAITH, yet none of them
received what had been promised. 40 God had planned something better
for us so that ONLY TOGETHER WITH US WOULD THEY BE MADE PERFECT."
When God gives the word
this resurrection will start, and these ancients will be among the
first to arise from the dead, and will join others who will be
incrementally raised from the dead and taken to the Majestic Glory
(2Pet 1:17), where they will be gathered under
the Altar of God: Rev 6:9-11 "When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under
the Altar the souls of those who had been slain because
of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. 10
They called out in a loud voice, "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true,
until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?"
11 Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait
a little longer, until the number of their
fellow servants and brothers who were to be KILLED AS THEY HAD BEEN was
completed." So this is what is meant by a better
resurrection!
Quite apart from the fact
that the House of Israel has made no attempt at obedience to God and His
Commandments, they’ve greatly added to their coming demise by flagrantly
contradicting God with their crazy ideas on political correctness, and their
love affair with diluting the House of Israel with their multiculturalism and
the flooding in of Gentiles. And for all the self-righteous detractors who
vehemently defend these wild ideas, God couldn’t care less about you and your
sentence will be carried out with speed and finality. What is more,
there will be no resurrection for them, and they will be dead forever. Without
God’s Holy Spirit, there is no pattern available to resurrect anyone. And God
has no desire to impart life to anyone who never obeyed Him.
Rom 8:11 "And
if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He
who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies
through His Spirit, who lives in you." V14 "Those who
are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God." Surely
no-one is silly enough to believe that God’s Holy Spirit would advocate disobedience
to God! Or that a son of God would not honour their Heavenly
Father with obedience! Jesus was obedient even to death.
I’m reminded of a
particularly pathetic teaching in the WCG that suggests that everyone who has
ever lived is going to get a second chance at life, and consequently, a second
chance at ‘salvation’. The man who formalized this doctrine had no idea of the
meaning of ‘salvation’. But the House of
And just to clear up a
misconception of how one receives God’s Holy Spirit. Through the Apostles this
was ritualized by the laying on of hands. But plenty of people have received
the Holy Spirit without the ‘magical’ hands of the ‘ministry’. It was formerly
an accepted ritual, but it didn’t impart God’s Holy Spirit – God did!
And this is true of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets, including
David. All these received the Holy Spirit without the laying on of the hands of
a minister of religion. In fact, there are some spoken of in the Bible who
received God’s Holy Spirit from birth, and two of these were Jesus
and John the Baptist. So if someone thinks he received the Holy
Spirit because some man laid hands on him, or perhaps they think they don’t
have God’s Holy Spirit because some man didn’t, then let’s be clear on this: God
gives His Holy Spirit to those who obey Him! There is no objection to
the ritualized laying on of hands, provided the recipient is fully aware that
God imparts His Holy Spirit – and not a man! I
hasten to add that I am aware of Acts 8:18-20
and 1Tim 1:6 and the power of the
Apostles imparted to them by God. These were faithful and proven men of
God and even sons of God, and this is why the gift was
given them. It seems today that everyone thinks he or she has the power,
indeed, this gift, to impart the Holy Spirit by the laying on their hands. The
chances are about a billion to one that they don’t have it! And
certainly, the disobedient don’t have it!
The reader may be
interested to know that shepherds have been masquerading in the Churches of God
who have no right to be there. Greedy, cunning men who unashamedly seek the
honour and respect of men! It’s always been a problem and even more so today: Jude 1:12 "These
men are blemishes at your love feasts, eating with you without the
slightest qualm – SHEPHERDS who feed only themselves.
They are clouds without rain, blown along by the wind; autumn
trees, without fruit and uprooted – twice dead. 13 They
are wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shame; wandering stars, for whom blackest darkness has been reserved forever."
One might argue that surely no one would be fooled by such people. The truth is
that you probably already have. Jude mentions that such shepherds are blown
along by the wind, and this is mentioned in Eph
4:14 "Then we will no longer be
infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by
every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in
their deceitful scheming." And this is the hallmark of these
deceitful schemers that they are easily tossed about by all sorts of lying
doctrine, and they never question it. They are too busy playing their deceitful
games of trying to deceive people and mask their foaming shame. If what Jude
says here is not enough, he adds more: V17
"But, dear friends, remember what the Apostles
of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold. 18 They said to you, "In
the last times there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly desires."
19 These are the MEN WHO DIVIDE YOU, who follow
mere natural instincts AND DO NOT HAVE THE SPIRIT."
So you can just imagine these ‘masquerading shepherds’ pretending to impart
God’s Holy Spirit through the laying on of their hands, when they don’t have it
themselves! But they continue to fool everyone! As it’s been famously said: Isa 8:20 "To
the Law and to the Testimony, If they don’t speak according to
this Word, they have no light of dawn." The
whole chapter of Isaiah 8 is a revelation for our time, but I won’t go into it
now. But importantly, the Testimony mentioned here is
the Testimony of Jesus, and the Testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of
Prophecy (Rev 19:10). It’s this Testimony
of Jesus or Spirit of Prophecy that will mean so much to
the survival of the House of Israel. And none will survive without it!
So if anyone doesn’t speak
according to the Law and the Testimony, then have nothing
to do with them. As John said, they are the antichrists (1John 2:18), who desire to deceive you and induce
you comply with their own ideas. John even goes on to describe them as the
children of the devil (1John 3:19).
Whenever someone begins introducing silly nonsense that is not supported by the
Scriptures they are advocating for the devil, and are therefore the children
of the devil. The children of God do what is
right in accordance to God’s Word, and don’t depart from it. And
this is particularly so as we approach the last hour – as John put it. John was
already imprisoned on the Isle of Patmos when he wrote this, and Peter had
already been martyred. Persecution against Christianity was in full swing and
many Christians were already dying horribly. So at that time also, it was a
last hour.
As for the children
of the devil, the Apostle Paul identified them in the last days: 2Tim 3:1-5 "But
mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2
People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive,
disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love,
unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4
treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5
having a form of godliness but denying its power. HAVE
NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM." There are plenty of people today
who have a form of godliness but are totally insincere. Their
modus operandi is to challenge some minor point of doctrine to destabilize you,
and once this is accomplished they set out to master you and draw you to their
‘wisdom’. So don’t be fooled by the form of godliness; they are deceivers.
Those who truly have God’s Holy Spirit and exercise it judicially,
are never deceived by these sinister creatures. But I might add that the
Churches of God certainly have, and now they must prove their faithfulness with
their lives. This is God’s judgment!
The Churches of God would
do well to heed the advice given in Heb 5:11-6:4
"We have much to say about this, but it is
hard to explain because you are slow to learn. 12 In
fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you
need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s Word all over again.
You need milk, not solid food!
13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, IS
NOT ACQUAINTED WITH THE TEACHING ABOUT RIGHTEOUSNESS. 14 But
solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained
themselves TO DISTINGUISH GOOD FROM EVIL." The Churches of
God are very much like Gentile Christianity when they drone on endlessly about elementary
teachings, so how are they ever to understand the teachings about
righteousness if they can’t DISTINGUISH BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL?
The Churches of God need to gain some maturity, and get their act
together! They need to divest themselves of their fake renditions of prophecy,
which have all failed, and start facing reality! Heb
6:1 "Therefore let us leave
the elementary teachings about Christ AND GO ON TO MATURITY, not
laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death,
and of faith in God, 2 instruction about
baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection
of the dead, and eternal judgment. 3 And
God permitting, we will do so." Paul and Barnabas were
determined to leave aside the elementary teachings and the
consequent straining over picky issues and all the clever arguments that
childish people love to argue about, AND TO GO ON TO MATURITY!
The Churches of God above
all other people have the most to lose, because they have contracted for service
to God through baptism. In return, God gave them His Holy Spirit, and this is
their only shot at eternal life, so if they fail there is
nothing else left for them. They may be relying on the lying words of their
preachers, who are notorious for giving bad advice, but this is the reality: Heb 6:4 "It is IMPOSSIBLE
for those who have once been enlightened, who have tasted
the heavenly gift, who have shared in the Holy Spirit, 5
who have tasted the goodness of the word of God and the
powers of the coming age, 6 if they fall away, to be
brought back to repentance, because to their loss they
are crucifying the Son of God all over again and subjecting him to public
disgrace." And what public disgrace they subject the
Son of Man to! To listen to them you would think Jesus was still an
infant in swaddling clothes. Jesus Christ is the Mighty
Commander of Armies, the Conqueror of Nations, the
Dispenser of Justice and Retribution, and the coming Ruler of the
World. He is King of Kings, and Lord of
Lords, so wash your mouth out when you try to cast Him as anything less
and stop subjecting Him to public disgrace!
The Churches of God are
well aware that under the auspices of a madman by the name of Tkach, they fell away big-time, and reverted to the
elementary teachings advocated by the rest of mainstream Christianity, and in
no time at all were subjecting the Mighty Christ to public disgrace.
They discarded all the mature teachings, including the Law of God, and in the
process, threw away their lives forever. And now it’s IMPOSSIBLE
for them to be reconciled to God.
Those few that remain in
the Churches of God who desire to go on to maturity, who are tired of the
deceit of pretenders and those who teach antichrist doctrines by subjecting the
Mighty Christ to endless public disgrace, may still enter the service of God.
If they faithfully fulfill their duty, then they too
will have rule over the nations, and like Jesus, will rule with a rod of iron.
This is God’s promise to you, but first you must be fully aware and trained
to distinguish good from evil. This is what
God says to the Churches: Rev 2:26 "To him who overcomes and does my will to the
end, I will give authority over the nations – 27
‘He will rule them with an iron scepter; he will
dash them to pieces like pottery’ – just as I have received
authority from my Father. 28 I will also give him the
morning star. 29 He who has an ear,
let him hear what the Spirit says to the Churches."
Of course, this is
contingent on actually believing God and divesting oneself from the pathetic
teachings of the past, and repentance from the mindless ‘prophecies’ that were
held so dear without any support from the Bible. All of which were insulting
and demeaning to the Mighty Christ, the Word of God.
I can hold out little hope
for anyone wanting to enter this Brotherhood now. Places are limited, and while
many are called, few are chosen. The door is
about to slam shut! Those who are chosen are NOT
those who have believed appalling nonsense all their lives, and who then,
having gained some real knowledge from us, seek to teach us. Suddenly, these
people awaken from a deep sleep and believe they’ve been appointed by God to
correct our ‘errors’, and always the authority for their arguments is some
other man ‘whose scholarship they respect’.
Such people must go their
way and take their chances. They can have no part of this Brotherhood! Whether
you want to believe it or not, this Brotherhood was taught by God! We were not
taught by any man! If you want man’s teachings, then go to any church and
you’ll hear plenty of that. But whatever decision you make, it’s your decision
alone.
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