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*Why Are We Having these Problems all Over the World?
It can no longer be denied. We are living in a time
of unprecedented,
worldwide troubles and catastrophes! Wars, famine,
earthquakes, hurricanes,
drought, threats of weapons of mass destruction --
everywhere we seem to
look today, we see nothing but EVIL and DANGER all
around us today!
-- BUT WHY?
Why are we suffering so? Why does the world seem to
be coming down
around us on every front?
Is it just blind CHANCE? Is it BAD LUCK? Or are
there dynamic REASONS
for all of the problems that are befalling us today?
Make no mistake about it -- our world is in dire
straits, and with each
passing day, they are getting worse and worse!
wars, terrorism, hurricanes, earthquakes, meteors,
asteroids, tornadoes
-- the list of problems we face are STAGGARING, and
getting WORSE all the
time.
But again ------ WHY?
Well, in order to discover the answer to this
question, we have to go
way back in time to the BEGINNING -- beause, ONLY
THEN can we gain the
MISSING DIMMENSION in knowledge modern man lacks.
This MISSING DIMMENSION in knowledge explains what
has happened in the
remote past because that is the VITAL KEY THAT
UNLOCKS THE DOOR TO WHY
we are having these problems today, WHERE THEY ARE
HEADED, and what WE can
do about it in our own lives to make sure that this
horrible end this world
is hurtling towards at rocket speed doesn't befall US
and OUR LOVED ONES.
Yes, even if the entire world should be ravaged by
mind bending events
WE can have an assurance that WE can escape these
horrible things!
But, first, to put things into perspective, I would
like to
quote the following to give you just a glimpse into
the magnitude of our
problems today, and how the government and media are
attempting to lull
us all into a false sense of security:
September 27, 2004
Xtreme Weather Meets Xtreme Media Bubble
By Tom Engelhardt
*SNIP*
And yet something was missing. For the first
time in history, four
hurricanes  Charley, Frances, Ivan (the
Terrible), and now Jeanne --
have smacked into Florida's long coastline one
after another in a
single hurricane season (not yet over), and
here's the strangest
thing of all: Forget that in March Brazil
experienced the South
Atlantic's first hurricane ever -- Brazilian
meteorologists didn't
even know what to name it; or that the Atlantic
coast of Canada got
whacked by Hurricane Juan, "the storm of
the century," late last year
(and the Canadian government suspects a link to
global warming); or
that the United States has already experienced a
record number of
tornados in 2004; or that Japan has had the
worst season of typhoons
in memory; or that Xtreme weather events have
increased in recent
years across the planet, including massive
flooding in Europe,
Bangladesh, and China, and a deathly summer heat
wave that struck
Europe in 2003. Forget the rising sea levels and
the increased melt-
off toward the poles. Forget that the head of at
least one (hated)
country in the path of Hurricane Ivan -- Fidel
Castro -- was ready to
warn his people about global warming and
hurricanes, or that the Bush
administration's closest ally, Tony Blair of
Britain, made a major
speech, widely ignored in the American press,
labeling global warming
a danger beyond compare.
more here:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/dailymojo/2004/09/09_524.html
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Now, when you add together some of the news items in
our News
Digest below, below, such as the swarms of
earthquakes, first in
California, now around Mt. St. Helens, all possibly
with a link to the
Yellowstone super volcano, increased earthquake and
volcanic activity
worldwide, freak meteor showers, the approach of
Toutatus,
a huge asteroid that probably won't strike us, but
will be close
none the less, plus the severe drought in the Western
Part of the
US, any sane person would begin to think that
something strange
is indeed up.
But that is by far not all! Much more weirdness has
happened
to the earth, sea, and the heavens than at any other
time in
living memory.
Bible prophecy predicted just such a time. It is
called The
Time of the End.
Daniel told us that the "wise would understand" these
things.
But the rest of humanity will be unaware.
Many of us are in fear for our safety. Life as we
have known it
will soon cease to exist altogether.
But, all the news is not bad. Believe it or not,
there is GOOD NEWS
beyond all of the bad news of today. This
publication has two main
purposes: one is to warn of what will soon happen if
our world does not
repent of its evil ways, and the other is a GOOD NEWS
ANNOUNCEMENT
that there is hope for a joyous, wonderful WORLD
TOMORROW that will
be brim full of peace, happiness and joy for all!
Jesus Christ was the greatest NEWSCASTER who ever
lived. He came with
this very same good news announcement that we are
commissioned to
give today. But He also told this world WHY it has
its curses and
evils.
There is a cause for every effect. Our world's
problems have come from
this world going down the WRONG TRACK for thousands
of years. We have
now come to the place where we can't even SEE THE
TRACK anymore, and
have become totally lost in a WILDERNESS of
confusion, lies, and evil.
There are REASONS why we are being cursed no matter
where we turn.
The hurricanes, earthquakes, drought, and other
natural disasters
befalling us today are merely the SYMPTOMS that
something is rotten
at the VERY CORE of this present evil world.
In order to correct this problem, this rotten CORE --
the CAUSE for all
of this world's evils -- is going to have to be
yanked out root and
branch and thrown into the fire and BURNED! Only
THEN can mankind have
the peace, happiness, and joy he has always longed for.
Few realize that the human race has literally been
KIDNAPPED by its worst
enemy! This is an implacable foe who wants to see
nothing less than the
outright EXTERMINATION of all humanity from the face
of the earth.
This is because this KIDNAPPER was placed on the
throne of rulership over
this world countless aeons ago. At that time, this
being was also living
in peace, and was in harmony with the WAY OF LIFE
created by his Creator.
There is no other way of life that works. All other
ways end in grief,
misery and hardship, terminating in death. But this
great being thought
he had a better idea. He thought in his own vanity
and ego that he knew
better how to live than did the Creator of all life
Himself. So, this
great being, Lucifer, developed a DIFFERENT
philosophy and way of life,
in COMPETITION with that developed by the Creator of
all.
Whereas the Creator said that we must live the way of
GIVE, this being
thought that it was better to live according to the
way of GET and
SELFISHNESS! Whereas the Creator taught LOVE, this
being decided that
HATE, VANITY, JEALOUSY, ENVY AND STRIFE were better
ways to live.
The Creator taught the way of COOPERATION. Lucifer
taught the way
of competition and strife.
In almost every way, Lucifer's ways became,
gradually, over time, the
EXACT OPPOSITE of the ways put forth by a loving
Creator God. And
Lucifer taught these ways of evil and strife to all
of those put under
him.
Lucifer had once been a LIGHT BRINGER, and he became
one who brought
DARKNESS INSTEAD. He was once ENLIGHTENED, but his
mind became insane,
perverted, and hopelessly darkened.
And so, this Lucifer became Satan.
It would have been tragedy enough had Satan only
perverted himself and
his own mind. After all, he was, at his creation,
the PINNACLE of
what God could create by fiat. He was the CROWN
JEWEL of all of creation,
and, like sour milk, instead of giving off a good
flavor and odor, he
began to exude sourness and bitterness with every
drop of his being.
Lucifer had been set up on the TRHONE OF THIS EARTH,
as its ruler, and
fully one third of the angels were placed here with
him, under his rule.
But of course, Lucifer could not at first overtly
challenge the Creator
God, because then the angels under him would have
known right away there
was something wrong, and would have followed their
Creator instead of
their kidnapper.
At first, Lucifer had to use deceit and double talk
to create doubt and
discontent in those under his rule. A smirk on the
face here, an off
gesture or word there were all that was needed to get
the ball of perversion
going, just as had happened with him.
In his case, his mind was perverted by his beauty,
perfection, and vast
intelligence and knowledge. It started with the
seemingly innocent
thought that he was beautiful. From this tiny grain
grew the rot of
mental perversion which eventually turned his whole
character around to
the wrong direction.
So, he subtly began to use these methods on those
under him, creating an
atmosphere, subtly at first, of competition, strife,
and resentment of
God Himself.
He might have made comments like "it's just not fair
that we are stuck
down here on this tiny ball of dust when God and the
other angels have
the glory of Heaven around them every day."
God was just not FAIR, for thus and such a reason, he
would intone
conspiratorially.
And so it began. Over the eons of time, the rot and
perversion spread
from one angel to another, until like a crate of
apples, that starts with
a tiny blot on one apple, but ends up turning the
entire crate rotten, the
entire angelic contingent under Satan's rule was
perverted and turned
against God too.
In fact, they became so perverted -- so warped,
twisted, and insane -- that
they conceived a most horrible and heinous scheme.
That scheme was to
remove the "unfair" Creator God from his very THRONE
ruling over the
vast universe, and replace HIM with Satan, so that
SATAN WOULD BECOME THE
MOST HIGH [some Biblical transaltions say Satan
wanted to become LIKE the
Most High, but the correct reading is that he wanted
to BECOME the most
high, ruling the entire universe from God's own
throne, thus becoming the
Most High God himself]!
We do not know how long Satan schemed and planned to
bring this about.
For some reason, he seems to have thought that if he
and his angels
started the "war," then a majority of the other
angels would rally behind
him and assist him in his evil scheme.
Or, perhaps he thought he had some kind of "secret
weapon" with which to
knock God off His Throne.
He no doubt portrayed himself as a great LIBERATOR
and CRUSADER, fighting
for the RIGHTS of those under him, seeking to throw
off the BONDS OF
OPPRESSION of an unfair, stern, and dictatorial God
who only wanted to
"lord it over the rest of us."
In other words, he was the first "revolutionary" and
"liberator" against
an "unjust elite."
Whatever it was that made him so bold, when Satan
decided he was ready, he
and his angels left their places on this earth, and
rose up to heaven in
their attempted coup against God.
They rose up to heaven, and were met by the other 2/3
of the angels who
remained loyal to God. But, even if they had
rebelled, all of them
combined could never in a trillion years have knocked
God off His Throne,
for His knowledge and power are beyond belief, and
there is no being, nor
combination of beings who can stand up to Him.
But, Satan and his angels fought, and the holy angels
fought in a terrible
battle that would make the fictional Star Wars look
like nothing in
comparison. This was a REAL WAR, and is probably one
of the causes for
the destruction of the planet that used to orbit the
sun between Mars and
Jupiter, among other damage caused to the universe,
the solar system, and
this earth and its moon.
There is no telling how long this epic battle raged.
But, in the end,
Satan lost. He was forced out of heaven back down to
this earth. In
fact, referring to this momentous event, Christ said
"I saw Satan as
lightning fall from heaven."
And when they fell, the "golden age" of this planet
came to an abrupt and
violent end. Where there had been beauty and order,
there was now utter
destruction of the earth and all life upon it.
The earth became totally FILLED with a worldwide
ocean, and a dark cloud
enveloped this planet in total darkness, so that not
even sunlight could
penetrate to the surface.
And the surface of this planet became a dark, storm
tossed sea, with huge
tidal waves, lightning bolts, and strong, hurricane
force winds, whipping
the waves up into a continual frenzy of foam. But
there was no dry land
for these storm tossed waves to crash into, so they
just continually
circled the globe. And it was a constant darkness of
night over the
entire planet.
And Satan and his angels, now become demons, were
wandering stars in this
dark, storm tossed world, never finding rest,
confined to this planet they
were responsible for destroying.
This is the scene we come onto in the first chapter
of Genesis. The Bible
tells us, not that the world WAS without form and
void, but that it BECAME
without form and void.
And in this darkness, the eyes of God surveyed this
planet wide ruin and
destruction, and thought about how beauty and joy had
been turned into
ugliness and sorrow.
But, He conceived a bold plan. If angels could not
be relied upon to
develop His Holy, Righteous character, then He
realized that the only
class of being in the entirety of the universe which
could be relied upon
not to go wrong was a God being. So God conceived
the boldest plan ever
devised from eternity to eternity. He conceived of
the bold plan to
REPRODUCE HIMSELF THROUGH HUMANS!
Of course, this could not happen all at once. It was
a bold plan, but
a plan that had to be implemented carefully, and He
knew it would take
a long time, and would not be easy. And yes, He knew
even then that He
would be required to give the ULTIMATE SACRIFICE!
Ever since before time began, He, who later became
the Father, had
shared eternity with another God being, the Logos, or
Word. In fact, it was
He who had conceived and designed all of creation,
yet it was the Word
who spoke, and it was done. So, they both knew, back
then, that this
bold path they were about to travel upon would
require that the Word would
become a human Himself, and would have to lay down
His life for His
creations.
And so that, my friends, is the beginning of this
great story. That is how
we got into the mess we are in today. Satan is still
on the throne of this
earth, and he was able to stay there by decieving and
lying to his
potential replacement, Adam.
But, that is NOT the end of the story. Satan will
yet once more attempt to
take over the Throne of this universe and become the
Most High, but, he
and his demons will once more be cast down to this
earth to await their
final punishment. They will be very upset, and will
seek to wipe humanity
from the face of this earth with renewed vigor,
knowing that their time
is very short.
But God will intervene on this earth, He will defeat
Satan and his minions,
and mankind will indeed live happily ever after.
If you want more information on this amazing story,
going into much deeper
detail than I have been able to here, and showing you
from the pages of
YOUR OWN BIBLE that these things are so, then you
need to visit the
Basic Literature section of the Library part of the
Restoration Website.
I suggest you start your study with the following
material:
The Restoration of Truth
The Incredible Human Potential
A World Held Captive
and,
The Wonderful World Tomorrow -- What it Will be Like!
Enjoy finding out the TRUTH, and the answers to the
BIG QUESTIONS as this
present evil world hurtles towards its destruction.
Find out how YOU can
escape what is even now starting to happen, every day
it seems, right before
your very eyes, as this present evil world is
literally RIPPED APART!
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*Mt. St. Helens: The Mountain Is Closed!
Last week, it was swarms of earthquakes in
California. Now, it is Mt.
St. Helens that is stirring to life -- can Mt. Rainer
and Yellowstone
be far behind?
A report has just came out minutes ago (time now
23:40 hours) stating Mount St. Helens activity
ÂescalatesÂ. More than 2000 small quakes have
occurred since last Thursday. As of today, all
hiking trails are closed. Near by schools and
community centers conducted evacuation drills.
Small 1.0 to 2.5 magnitude quakes are now
occurring every one or two minutes.
And don't forget there continue to be tremors along
the very dangerous
New Madrid fault, as well as in many other locations
around the world,
including POLAND, where earthquakes NEVER happen!
Our world is shaking harder and harder.
But, there appears to be a concerted effort on the
part of government
and media to minimize what is happening. In fact,
here is what some
theorize is going on:
"I think they are deleting and/or not posting
earthquakes now on the
website. Yesterday it reached around 1150 and
then the numbers
started dropping very rapidly and now it is 891."
This poster is not alone in this opinion.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/
* The Moon is not in her place, and acting strangely
One of the signs of the End are signs in the heavens.
There are
lots to choose from. He is one observation about the
stange antics
of the Moon lately. This is only one example.
The Surfing The Apocalypse Network
http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com
A NEW MOON ANTIC (AT LEAST TO ME)
Posted By: Freedom
Date: Saturday, 25 September 2004, 1:24 a.m.
Today's moon was higher than two nights ago, but
far from normal
transit. The difference today is that the moon
traveled from a
straight line on the horizon for several hours
to suddenly deciding
to climb even higher, before it finally sets I
assume. Now, even the
skeptics must admit the moon does not come up,
travel along the
horizon without rising, then decide it wants to
go higher for awhile
before it sets? Does anyone remember the moon
used to come up over
the horizon, and travel steadily higher until it
reached the tippy
top of the sky, and come down somewhere on the
opposite side of where
it had risen. I don't need to know alegebra, or
quantum physics, or
even have a college education to figure this
very simple thing out. I
don't need expensive astrological equipment, I
don't even need to
know which way is east or west. All I needed to
have was a love of
the moon, especially a full moon all of my life,
which caused me to
take notice of the moon every chance I got.
When I compare every memory, every bittersweet
moment when I was out
late at night and looked up to watch and wonder
and yearn for the
stars, I am absolutely amazed at what is going
on with the moon.
And then to top it all off the face is rolling
around! I have to
crank my neck till I get a crick in it for the
moon to look normal!
It is rolling clockwise tonight. Also I had a
thought earlier, the
rotation does not seem to start until dark. It
seems to have a
reoccuring time frame in this regard. I doubt
very seriously it is
NIGHT, as the earth turns. Could it be a time
frame, and it starts
rotating clockwise at the same time all the
time? During the day as I
kept watch there was not much rotation at all.
However this changed rapidly later on in the
evening.
Any guesses anyone?
Cliff?
Make your brain hurt and come up with a theory!
*Sun and stars out of place too
Here are some more eye witness observations. Do not
take any
of these as "gospel," but rather, use them as a
springboard for
your own observations.
Also, the reason the government considers the print
version of the
Almanac to be a "terrorist tool" may be because it
can't be altered
all the time to cover up the fact that things don't
seem to be
right with the sky, the seasons, etc.
If any of you have an Almanac IN PRINT for this year,
and would like
to observe and send it a comparison, please do!
In the meantime, where are what some people think
they are seeing:
Our red sunset from Vancouver, Canada. Do you
think anyone will say,
what's wrong with this picture? [and from
another] Note that the Sun
suddenly lurches NORTH on the Sep 19! On Sep 16,
2004 it was located
at approximately the placement the year before,
Sep 16, 2003. But
what happened on Sep 19! Sunset in Vancouver is
looking to the West
where the Sun over the Pacific is about to lurch
to the NORTH, where
it has been south while over the West Coast, and
on the 19th, this
lurch was caught on film!
Are you seeing clusters of stars that are out of
place? All of the
sudden I am seeing all this stuff never noticed
in all my years of
gazing. [and from another] I´m noticing the same
thing here in
Canada. I started seeing this in the summer too.
My Grandfather is an
amateur astronomer and he is watching this too.
We are both
scratching our heads. [and from another] Pay
attention to the
constellation Orion. It´s altitude and azimuth
are both off. [and
from another] I´ve been to other message boards
and they are seeing
this as well. The bible says in the last days
the Earth will wobble
like a drunk man. So it's not the Moon. It's not
the stars. It's the
Earth. [and from another] The sun seting to far
North over Alaska
[Sep 19] via satellite. [and from another] Is
this the Sun in the
West, when the satellite is located over Alaska?
This is the extreme
NW! During the Earth wobble, the Earth lurches
to place the Sun North
when during midday over the Pacific.
*Ice collapse speeds up glaciers [Sep 22]
`Glaciers once held up by a
floating ice shelf off Antarctica are now
sliding off into the sea --
and they are going fast, scientists said on
Tuesday. Writing in the
journal Geophysical Research Letters, the
researchers said their
satellite measurements suggest climate warming
can lead to rapid sea
level rise. Many teams of researchers are
keeping a close eye on
parts of Antarctica that are steadily melting.
Large ice shelves in
the Antarctic Peninsula disintegrated in 1995
and 2002 as a result of
climate warming. But these floating ice shelves
did not affect sea
level as they melted. Glaciers, however, are
another story. They rest
on land and when they slide off into the water
they instantly affect
sea level. The Ross ice shelf, for example, is
the main outlet for
the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, with several large
glaciers that could,
if they melted completely, raise sea levels by
16 feet.' [and from
*On 20th of September a respected french TV
channel called TV5 tried
to give a reason for the odd weather specially
the frequency of
hurricanes. One of the reasons given is the
proximity of a strange
planet caught on camera in Chili by one
observatory and they showed
the photo. But they did not elaborate further.Is
this the beginning
of public admittance to Planet X? [and from
another source] Sylvia
Brown's appearance on the Montell Williams show
this morning [Sep
21]. A lady in the audience told Sylvia of an
odd dizziness she has
been experiencing over the last few months. She
said that when she
turns her head too quickly to either side she is
very dizzy and feels
sick. Sylvia's response was that she had been
hearing this more and
more over the last several months and that she
was accounting it to
Earth tilt! That the East Coast is becoming the
West Coast,
suggesting a pole shift of some type and that
the lady, and others,
were very sensitive to what is going on with the
Earth tilt. She was
definitely speaking clearly, quickly and briefly
about what she had
seen and been experiencing as far as Earth tilt
was concerned. [Note: the beginning of open major media
chatter about PX! Yes!]
COMMENT: We will have more coverage later as to how
Planet X
fits in with Bible Prophecy and what is going on. It
in fact
plays much more of a major role than you might think,
and we
will also begin to explain JUST WHO AND WHAT are the
Annunaki,
the angels, the demons, etc. IT'S NOT WHAT MOST
PEOPLE THINK!
But it FITS RIGHT IN WITH WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS,
believe it or
not! GOD'S TIME TO RESTORE LOST KNOWLEDGE HAS INDEED
COME!
*Will Toutatis Stike the Earth?
In my opinion, all of the evidence shows that it will
miss.
But it may be a lot closer encounter than most think.
Toutatis is big enough to destroy life on earth if it
hits,
according to some sources.
It is due to make its closest approach the night of
Sept. 29,
which, coincidentally, is the opening night of the
Feast of
Tabernacles.
But I think God may be sending us warnings that
someday, something
will indeed HIT, just not TODAY.
The Bible predicts "stars falling from heaven" and
striking the
earth, causing much damage.
We are being warned of what is coming.
Is anyone listening?
*Patriot Act II -- Ramming it to America!
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:03:18 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: [NeuschwabenlandTimes] New 9/11 bill
being
> written in secret right now
>
> New 9/11 bill being written in secret right now
> Capitol Hill sources tell Libertythink the new
House
> GOP 9/11 bill based on the 9/11 Commission
report,
> reported on this morning by Associated Press, is
> being written behind closed doors by the House
> republican leadership, probably in conjunction
with
> the White House. The relevant Committees and
their
> staffs are being locked out of the process --
much
> like what happened with the PATRIOT Act.
>
> The bill may be introduced tomorrow.
>
> Contact the offices of Majority Leader Tom
DeLay and
> House Speaker Dennis Hastert right now and
tell them
> NO on police state measures and particularly
> National ID via "standardized" drivers' licenses!
>
> HASTERT:
>
> D.C. Office
> 235 Cannon House Office Building
> Washington, DC 20515
>
> Phone: 202-225-2976
> Fax: 202-225-0697
>
> DeLAY:
>
> Washington DC Office
> 242 Cannon HOB
> Washington, DC 20515
> Ph. (202) 225-5951
> Fax (202) 225-5241
>
> District Office
> 10701 Corporate Drive, Suite 118
> Stafford, TX 77477
> Ph. (281) 240-3700
> Fax (281) 240-2959
>
> UPDATE: National Journal's CongressDailyAM
reports
> today: House GOP staffers involved in
negotiations
> said leaders could deliver a final draft
directly to
> the Rules Committee rather than mark up the
> legislation in the nine differnt panels that
share
> jurisdiction over the issues.
>
> CONTACT: U.S. House of Representatives
> Committee on Rules
> H-312 The Capitol
> Washington, DC 20515
> 202-225-9191
>
>
> RULES CHAIRMAN REP. DAVID DREIER:
> Washington Office
> 237 Cannon HOB
> Washington, DC 20515
> (202) 225-2305
>
> District Office
> 2220 East Route 66
> Suite 225
> Glendora, CA 91740
> (626) 852-2626
> (866) 373-6321
>
*911: The Greatest Lie Ever Sold by Anthony Hilder
The stark, raw reality is that the 9-11 "story"
is THE GREATEST LIE EVER SOLD. American's are
being prepped for the next "staged event" Agents
of the CIA, FBI, NSA, and the propaganda press
will then white-wash "USAMA BIN BUSH!"
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/september2004/220904greatestlie.htm
*Government portrays homeschoolers as terrorists
In an federally funded exercise to prepare
emergency responders for a terrorist attack, a
Michigan county concocted a scenario in which
public-school children were threated by a
fictitious radical group that believes everyone
should be homeschooled.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2004/220904portrayshomeschooler
s.htm
*Kerry: Draft Likely to Return Under Bush
This only serves to steam-valve the draft issue
into phony left-right partisan party political
rhetoric. It makes people switch off and
prevents them from being seriously concerned by
the prospect of conscription.
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/september2004/220904drafttoreturn.htm
*Vote Third Party Or Don't Vote At All
People across America are frustrated, even
infuriated with the choice between Bush and
Kerry. Both politicians support war and economic
policies that destroy prosperity.
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/september2004/220904dontvote.htm
*Airlines Told to Turn Over Passenger Data
Everyone who took a commercial flight within the
United States in June will have his travel
information turned over to the government so it
can test a new system for identifying potential
terrorists.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2004/220904airlinestold.htm
*The Bushes and The Nazis: Alex Jones Interviews
John Buchanan
Reporter John Buchanan and Alex discuss new
revelations on how the Bush family helped Hitler
rise to power.
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/audio/092704buchanan.htm
*Establishment Media Plagued by 'Coincidence
Theorists'
In his eyewitness account of "The Rise and Fall
of the Third Reich," author William Shirer, who
lived in Nazi Germany throughout most of the
1930s, described a phenomenon that will, in
2004, seem disturbingly familiar to Americans
who dissent from the policies of the Bush
regime.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2004/270904coincidencetheorists
.htm
*Mega Search Engine Resource
I've just come across a new search engine
resource on the EscapeArtist website
at
http://www.escapeartist.com/Search_Engines/Search_Engines.html.
When finished, they aim to list over 1,000 different
search engines, some of which
are highly specialised like LawCrawler,
SearchMil, and even one just for Adobe
pdf files, and can be used to track down some
pretty obscure information that
general search engines will probably lose
amongst everything else they pick up.
Worth bookmarking.
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*Why Are We Having these Problems all Over the World?
It can no longer be denied. We are living in a time
of unprecedented,
worldwide troubles and catastrophes! Wars, famine,
earthquakes, hurricanes,
drought, threats of weapons of mass destruction --
everywhere we seem to
look today, we see nothing but EVIL and DANGER all
around us today!
-- BUT WHY?
Why are we suffering so? Why does the world seem to
be coming down
around us on every front?
Is it just blind CHANCE? Is it BAD LUCK? Or are
there dynamic REASONS
for all of the problems that are befalling us today?
Make no mistake about it -- our world is in dire
straits, and with each
passing day, they are getting worse and worse!
wars, terrorism, hurricanes, earthquakes, meteors,
asteroids, tornadoes
-- the list of problems we face are STAGGARING, and
getting WORSE all the
time.
But again ------ WHY?
Well, in order to discover the answer to this
question, we have to go
way back in time to the BEGINNING -- beause, ONLY
THEN can we gain the
MISSING DIMMENSION in knowledge modern man lacks.
This MISSING DIMMENSION in knowledge explains what
has happened in the
remote past because that is the VITAL KEY THAT
UNLOCKS THE DOOR TO WHY
we are having these problems today, WHERE THEY ARE
HEADED, and what WE can
do about it in our own lives to make sure that this
horrible end this world
is hurtling towards at rocket speed doesn't befall US
and OUR LOVED ONES.
Yes, even if the entire world should be ravaged by
mind bending events
WE can have an assurance that WE can escape these
horrible things!
But, first, to put things into perspective, I would
like to
quote the following to give you just a glimpse into
the magnitude of our
problems today, and how the government and media are
attempting to lull
us all into a false sense of security:
September 27, 2004
Xtreme Weather Meets Xtreme Media Bubble
By Tom Engelhardt
*SNIP*
And yet something was missing. For the first
time in history, four
hurricanes  Charley, Frances, Ivan (the
Terrible), and now Jeanne --
have smacked into Florida's long coastline one
after another in a
single hurricane season (not yet over), and
here's the strangest
thing of all: Forget that in March Brazil
experienced the South
Atlantic's first hurricane ever -- Brazilian
meteorologists didn't
even know what to name it; or that the Atlantic
coast of Canada got
whacked by Hurricane Juan, "the storm of
the century," late last year
(and the Canadian government suspects a link to
global warming); or
that the United States has already experienced a
record number of
tornados in 2004; or that Japan has had the
worst season of typhoons
in memory; or that Xtreme weather events have
increased in recent
years across the planet, including massive
flooding in Europe,
Bangladesh, and China, and a deathly summer heat
wave that struck
Europe in 2003. Forget the rising sea levels and
the increased melt-
off toward the poles. Forget that the head of at
least one (hated)
country in the path of Hurricane Ivan -- Fidel
Castro -- was ready to
warn his people about global warming and
hurricanes, or that the Bush
administration's closest ally, Tony Blair of
Britain, made a major
speech, widely ignored in the American press,
labeling global warming
a danger beyond compare.
more here:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/dailymojo/2004/09/09_524.html
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Now, when you add together some of the news items in
our News
Digest below, below, such as the swarms of
earthquakes, first in
California, now around Mt. St. Helens, all possibly
with a link to the
Yellowstone super volcano, increased earthquake and
volcanic activity
worldwide, freak meteor showers, the approach of
Toutatus,
a huge asteroid that probably won't strike us, but
will be close
none the less, plus the severe drought in the Western
Part of the
US, any sane person would begin to think that
something strange
is indeed up.
But that is by far not all! Much more weirdness has
happened
to the earth, sea, and the heavens than at any other
time in
living memory.
Bible prophecy predicted just such a time. It is
called The
Time of the End.
Daniel told us that the "wise would understand" these
things.
But the rest of humanity will be unaware.
Many of us are in fear for our safety. Life as we
have known it
will soon cease to exist altogether.
But, all the news is not bad. Believe it or not,
there is GOOD NEWS
beyond all of the bad news of today. This
publication has two main
purposes: one is to warn of what will soon happen if
our world does not
repent of its evil ways, and the other is a GOOD NEWS
ANNOUNCEMENT
that there is hope for a joyous, wonderful WORLD
TOMORROW that will
be brim full of peace, happiness and joy for all!
Jesus Christ was the greatest NEWSCASTER who ever
lived. He came with
this very same good news announcement that we are
commissioned to
give today. But He also told this world WHY it has
its curses and
evils.
There is a cause for every effect. Our world's
problems have come from
this world going down the WRONG TRACK for thousands
of years. We have
now come to the place where we can't even SEE THE
TRACK anymore, and
have become totally lost in a WILDERNESS of
confusion, lies, and evil.
There are REASONS why we are being cursed no matter
where we turn.
The hurricanes, earthquakes, drought, and other
natural disasters
befalling us today are merely the SYMPTOMS that
something is rotten
at the VERY CORE of this present evil world.
In order to correct this problem, this rotten CORE --
the CAUSE for all
of this world's evils -- is going to have to be
yanked out root and
branch and thrown into the fire and BURNED! Only
THEN can mankind have
the peace, happiness, and joy he has always longed for.
Few realize that the human race has literally been
KIDNAPPED by its worst
enemy! This is an implacable foe who wants to see
nothing less than the
outright EXTERMINATION of all humanity from the face
of the earth.
This is because this KIDNAPPER was placed on the
throne of rulership over
this world countless aeons ago. At that time, this
being was also living
in peace, and was in harmony with the WAY OF LIFE
created by his Creator.
There is no other way of life that works. All other
ways end in grief,
misery and hardship, terminating in death. But this
great being thought
he had a better idea. He thought in his own vanity
and ego that he knew
better how to live than did the Creator of all life
Himself. So, this
great being, Lucifer, developed a DIFFERENT
philosophy and way of life,
in COMPETITION with that developed by the Creator of
all.
Whereas the Creator said that we must live the way of
GIVE, this being
thought that it was better to live according to the
way of GET and
SELFISHNESS! Whereas the Creator taught LOVE, this
being decided that
HATE, VANITY, JEALOUSY, ENVY AND STRIFE were better
ways to live.
The Creator taught the way of COOPERATION. Lucifer
taught the way
of competition and strife.
In almost every way, Lucifer's ways became,
gradually, over time, the
EXACT OPPOSITE of the ways put forth by a loving
Creator God. And
Lucifer taught these ways of evil and strife to all
of those put under
him.
Lucifer had once been a LIGHT BRINGER, and he became
one who brought
DARKNESS INSTEAD. He was once ENLIGHTENED, but his
mind became insane,
perverted, and hopelessly darkened.
And so, this Lucifer became Satan.
It would have been tragedy enough had Satan only
perverted himself and
his own mind. After all, he was, at his creation,
the PINNACLE of
what God could create by fiat. He was the CROWN
JEWEL of all of creation,
and, like sour milk, instead of giving off a good
flavor and odor, he
began to exude sourness and bitterness with every
drop of his being.
Lucifer had been set up on the TRHONE OF THIS EARTH,
as its ruler, and
fully one third of the angels were placed here with
him, under his rule.
But of course, Lucifer could not at first overtly
challenge the Creator
God, because then the angels under him would have
known right away there
was something wrong, and would have followed their
Creator instead of
their kidnapper.
At first, Lucifer had to use deceit and double talk
to create doubt and
discontent in those under his rule. A smirk on the
face here, an off
gesture or word there were all that was needed to get
the ball of perversion
going, just as had happened with him.
In his case, his mind was perverted by his beauty,
perfection, and vast
intelligence and knowledge. It started with the
seemingly innocent
thought that he was beautiful. From this tiny grain
grew the rot of
mental perversion which eventually turned his whole
character around to
the wrong direction.
So, he subtly began to use these methods on those
under him, creating an
atmosphere, subtly at first, of competition, strife,
and resentment of
God Himself.
He might have made comments like "it's just not fair
that we are stuck
down here on this tiny ball of dust when God and the
other angels have
the glory of Heaven around them every day."
God was just not FAIR, for thus and such a reason, he
would intone
conspiratorially.
And so it began. Over the eons of time, the rot and
perversion spread
from one angel to another, until like a crate of
apples, that starts with
a tiny blot on one apple, but ends up turning the
entire crate rotten, the
entire angelic contingent under Satan's rule was
perverted and turned
against God too.
In fact, they became so perverted -- so warped,
twisted, and insane -- that
they conceived a most horrible and heinous scheme.
That scheme was to
remove the "unfair" Creator God from his very THRONE
ruling over the
vast universe, and replace HIM with Satan, so that
SATAN WOULD BECOME THE
MOST HIGH [some Biblical transaltions say Satan
wanted to become LIKE the
Most High, but the correct reading is that he wanted
to BECOME the most
high, ruling the entire universe from God's own
throne, thus becoming the
Most High God himself]!
We do not know how long Satan schemed and planned to
bring this about.
For some reason, he seems to have thought that if he
and his angels
started the "war," then a majority of the other
angels would rally behind
him and assist him in his evil scheme.
Or, perhaps he thought he had some kind of "secret
weapon" with which to
knock God off His Throne.
He no doubt portrayed himself as a great LIBERATOR
and CRUSADER, fighting
for the RIGHTS of those under him, seeking to throw
off the BONDS OF
OPPRESSION of an unfair, stern, and dictatorial God
who only wanted to
"lord it over the rest of us."
In other words, he was the first "revolutionary" and
"liberator" against
an "unjust elite."
Whatever it was that made him so bold, when Satan
decided he was ready, he
and his angels left their places on this earth, and
rose up to heaven in
their attempted coup against God.
They rose up to heaven, and were met by the other 2/3
of the angels who
remained loyal to God. But, even if they had
rebelled, all of them
combined could never in a trillion years have knocked
God off His Throne,
for His knowledge and power are beyond belief, and
there is no being, nor
combination of beings who can stand up to Him.
But, Satan and his angels fought, and the holy angels
fought in a terrible
battle that would make the fictional Star Wars look
like nothing in
comparison. This was a REAL WAR, and is probably one
of the causes for
the destruction of the planet that used to orbit the
sun between Mars and
Jupiter, among other damage caused to the universe,
the solar system, and
this earth and its moon.
There is no telling how long this epic battle raged.
But, in the end,
Satan lost. He was forced out of heaven back down to
this earth. In
fact, referring to this momentous event, Christ said
"I saw Satan as
lightning fall from heaven."
And when they fell, the "golden age" of this planet
came to an abrupt and
violent end. Where there had been beauty and order,
there was now utter
destruction of the earth and all life upon it.
The earth became totally FILLED with a worldwide
ocean, and a dark cloud
enveloped this planet in total darkness, so that not
even sunlight could
penetrate to the surface.
And the surface of this planet became a dark, storm
tossed sea, with huge
tidal waves, lightning bolts, and strong, hurricane
force winds, whipping
the waves up into a continual frenzy of foam. But
there was no dry land
for these storm tossed waves to crash into, so they
just continually
circled the globe. And it was a constant darkness of
night over the
entire planet.
And Satan and his angels, now become demons, were
wandering stars in this
dark, storm tossed world, never finding rest,
confined to this planet they
were responsible for destroying.
This is the scene we come onto in the first chapter
of Genesis. The Bible
tells us, not that the world WAS without form and
void, but that it BECAME
without form and void.
And in this darkness, the eyes of God surveyed this
planet wide ruin and
destruction, and thought about how beauty and joy had
been turned into
ugliness and sorrow.
But, He conceived a bold plan. If angels could not
be relied upon to
develop His Holy, Righteous character, then He
realized that the only
class of being in the entirety of the universe which
could be relied upon
not to go wrong was a God being. So God conceived
the boldest plan ever
devised from eternity to eternity. He conceived of
the bold plan to
REPRODUCE HIMSELF THROUGH HUMANS!
Of course, this could not happen all at once. It was
a bold plan, but
a plan that had to be implemented carefully, and He
knew it would take
a long time, and would not be easy. And yes, He knew
even then that He
would be required to give the ULTIMATE SACRIFICE!
Ever since before time began, He, who later became
the Father, had
shared eternity with another God being, the Logos, or
Word. In fact, it was
He who had conceived and designed all of creation,
yet it was the Word
who spoke, and it was done. So, they both knew, back
then, that this
bold path they were about to travel upon would
require that the Word would
become a human Himself, and would have to lay down
His life for His
creations.
And so that, my friends, is the beginning of this
great story. That is how
we got into the mess we are in today. Satan is still
on the throne of this
earth, and he was able to stay there by decieving and
lying to his
potential replacement, Adam.
But, that is NOT the end of the story. Satan will
yet once more attempt to
take over the Throne of this universe and become the
Most High, but, he
and his demons will once more be cast down to this
earth to await their
final punishment. They will be very upset, and will
seek to wipe humanity
from the face of this earth with renewed vigor,
knowing that their time
is very short.
But God will intervene on this earth, He will defeat
Satan and his minions,
and mankind will indeed live happily ever after.
If you want more information on this amazing story,
going into much deeper
detail than I have been able to here, and showing you
from the pages of
YOUR OWN BIBLE that these things are so, then you
need to visit the
Basic Literature section of the Library part of the
Restoration Website.
I suggest you start your study with the following
material:
The Restoration of Truth
The Incredible Human Potential
A World Held Captive
and,
The Wonderful World Tomorrow -- What it Will be Like!
Enjoy finding out the TRUTH, and the answers to the
BIG QUESTIONS as this
present evil world hurtles towards its destruction.
Find out how YOU can
escape what is even now starting to happen, every day
it seems, right before
your very eyes, as this present evil world is
literally RIPPED APART!
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*Mt. St. Helens: The Mountain Is Closed!
Last week, it was swarms of earthquakes in
California. Now, it is Mt.
St. Helens that is stirring to life -- can Mt. Rainer
and Yellowstone
be far behind?
A report has just came out minutes ago (time now
23:40 hours) stating Mount St. Helens activity
ÂescalatesÂ. More than 2000 small quakes have
occurred since last Thursday. As of today, all
hiking trails are closed. Near by schools and
community centers conducted evacuation drills.
Small 1.0 to 2.5 magnitude quakes are now
occurring every one or two minutes.
And don't forget there continue to be tremors along
the very dangerous
New Madrid fault, as well as in many other locations
around the world,
including POLAND, where earthquakes NEVER happen!
Our world is shaking harder and harder.
But, there appears to be a concerted effort on the
part of government
and media to minimize what is happening. In fact,
here is what some
theorize is going on:
"I think they are deleting and/or not posting
earthquakes now on the
website. Yesterday it reached around 1150 and
then the numbers
started dropping very rapidly and now it is 891."
This poster is not alone in this opinion.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/
* The Moon is not in her place, and acting strangely
One of the signs of the End are signs in the heavens.
There are
lots to choose from. He is one observation about the
stange antics
of the Moon lately. This is only one example.
The Surfing The Apocalypse Network
http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.com
A NEW MOON ANTIC (AT LEAST TO ME)
Posted By: Freedom
Date: Saturday, 25 September 2004, 1:24 a.m.
Today's moon was higher than two nights ago, but
far from normal
transit. The difference today is that the moon
traveled from a
straight line on the horizon for several hours
to suddenly deciding
to climb even higher, before it finally sets I
assume. Now, even the
skeptics must admit the moon does not come up,
travel along the
horizon without rising, then decide it wants to
go higher for awhile
before it sets? Does anyone remember the moon
used to come up over
the horizon, and travel steadily higher until it
reached the tippy
top of the sky, and come down somewhere on the
opposite side of where
it had risen. I don't need to know alegebra, or
quantum physics, or
even have a college education to figure this
very simple thing out. I
don't need expensive astrological equipment, I
don't even need to
know which way is east or west. All I needed to
have was a love of
the moon, especially a full moon all of my life,
which caused me to
take notice of the moon every chance I got.
When I compare every memory, every bittersweet
moment when I was out
late at night and looked up to watch and wonder
and yearn for the
stars, I am absolutely amazed at what is going
on with the moon.
And then to top it all off the face is rolling
around! I have to
crank my neck till I get a crick in it for the
moon to look normal!
It is rolling clockwise tonight. Also I had a
thought earlier, the
rotation does not seem to start until dark. It
seems to have a
reoccuring time frame in this regard. I doubt
very seriously it is
NIGHT, as the earth turns. Could it be a time
frame, and it starts
rotating clockwise at the same time all the
time? During the day as I
kept watch there was not much rotation at all.
However this changed rapidly later on in the
evening.
Any guesses anyone?
Cliff?
Make your brain hurt and come up with a theory!
*Sun and stars out of place too
Here are some more eye witness observations. Do not
take any
of these as "gospel," but rather, use them as a
springboard for
your own observations.
Also, the reason the government considers the print
version of the
Almanac to be a "terrorist tool" may be because it
can't be altered
all the time to cover up the fact that things don't
seem to be
right with the sky, the seasons, etc.
If any of you have an Almanac IN PRINT for this year,
and would like
to observe and send it a comparison, please do!
In the meantime, where are what some people think
they are seeing:
Our red sunset from Vancouver, Canada. Do you
think anyone will say,
what's wrong with this picture? [and from
another] Note that the Sun
suddenly lurches NORTH on the Sep 19! On Sep 16,
2004 it was located
at approximately the placement the year before,
Sep 16, 2003. But
what happened on Sep 19! Sunset in Vancouver is
looking to the West
where the Sun over the Pacific is about to lurch
to the NORTH, where
it has been south while over the West Coast, and
on the 19th, this
lurch was caught on film!
Are you seeing clusters of stars that are out of
place? All of the
sudden I am seeing all this stuff never noticed
in all my years of
gazing. [and from another] I´m noticing the same
thing here in
Canada. I started seeing this in the summer too.
My Grandfather is an
amateur astronomer and he is watching this too.
We are both
scratching our heads. [and from another] Pay
attention to the
constellation Orion. It´s altitude and azimuth
are both off. [and
from another] I´ve been to other message boards
and they are seeing
this as well. The bible says in the last days
the Earth will wobble
like a drunk man. So it's not the Moon. It's not
the stars. It's the
Earth. [and from another] The sun seting to far
North over Alaska
[Sep 19] via satellite. [and from another] Is
this the Sun in the
West, when the satellite is located over Alaska?
This is the extreme
NW! During the Earth wobble, the Earth lurches
to place the Sun North
when during midday over the Pacific.
*Ice collapse speeds up glaciers [Sep 22]
`Glaciers once held up by a
floating ice shelf off Antarctica are now
sliding off into the sea --
and they are going fast, scientists said on
Tuesday. Writing in the
journal Geophysical Research Letters, the
researchers said their
satellite measurements suggest climate warming
can lead to rapid sea
level rise. Many teams of researchers are
keeping a close eye on
parts of Antarctica that are steadily melting.
Large ice shelves in
the Antarctic Peninsula disintegrated in 1995
and 2002 as a result of
climate warming. But these floating ice shelves
did not affect sea
level as they melted. Glaciers, however, are
another story. They rest
on land and when they slide off into the water
they instantly affect
sea level. The Ross ice shelf, for example, is
the main outlet for
the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, with several large
glaciers that could,
if they melted completely, raise sea levels by
16 feet.' [and from
*On 20th of September a respected french TV
channel called TV5 tried
to give a reason for the odd weather specially
the frequency of
hurricanes. One of the reasons given is the
proximity of a strange
planet caught on camera in Chili by one
observatory and they showed
the photo. But they did not elaborate further.Is
this the beginning
of public admittance to Planet X? [and from
another source] Sylvia
Brown's appearance on the Montell Williams show
this morning [Sep
21]. A lady in the audience told Sylvia of an
odd dizziness she has
been experiencing over the last few months. She
said that when she
turns her head too quickly to either side she is
very dizzy and feels
sick. Sylvia's response was that she had been
hearing this more and
more over the last several months and that she
was accounting it to
Earth tilt! That the East Coast is becoming the
West Coast,
suggesting a pole shift of some type and that
the lady, and others,
were very sensitive to what is going on with the
Earth tilt. She was
definitely speaking clearly, quickly and briefly
about what she had
seen and been experiencing as far as Earth tilt
was concerned. [Note: the beginning of open major media
chatter about PX! Yes!]
COMMENT: We will have more coverage later as to how
Planet X
fits in with Bible Prophecy and what is going on. It
in fact
plays much more of a major role than you might think,
and we
will also begin to explain JUST WHO AND WHAT are the
Annunaki,
the angels, the demons, etc. IT'S NOT WHAT MOST
PEOPLE THINK!
But it FITS RIGHT IN WITH WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS,
believe it or
not! GOD'S TIME TO RESTORE LOST KNOWLEDGE HAS INDEED
COME!
*Will Toutatis Stike the Earth?
In my opinion, all of the evidence shows that it will
miss.
But it may be a lot closer encounter than most think.
Toutatis is big enough to destroy life on earth if it
hits,
according to some sources.
It is due to make its closest approach the night of
Sept. 29,
which, coincidentally, is the opening night of the
Feast of
Tabernacles.
But I think God may be sending us warnings that
someday, something
will indeed HIT, just not TODAY.
The Bible predicts "stars falling from heaven" and
striking the
earth, causing much damage.
We are being warned of what is coming.
Is anyone listening?
*Patriot Act II -- Ramming it to America!
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:03:18 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: [NeuschwabenlandTimes] New 9/11 bill
being
> written in secret right now
>
> New 9/11 bill being written in secret right now
> Capitol Hill sources tell Libertythink the new
House
> GOP 9/11 bill based on the 9/11 Commission
report,
> reported on this morning by Associated Press, is
> being written behind closed doors by the House
> republican leadership, probably in conjunction
with
> the White House. The relevant Committees and
their
> staffs are being locked out of the process --
much
> like what happened with the PATRIOT Act.
>
> The bill may be introduced tomorrow.
>
> Contact the offices of Majority Leader Tom
DeLay and
> House Speaker Dennis Hastert right now and
tell them
> NO on police state measures and particularly
> National ID via "standardized" drivers' licenses!
>
> HASTERT:
>
> D.C. Office
> 235 Cannon House Office Building
> Washington, DC 20515
>
> Phone: 202-225-2976
> Fax: 202-225-0697
>
> DeLAY:
>
> Washington DC Office
> 242 Cannon HOB
> Washington, DC 20515
> Ph. (202) 225-5951
> Fax (202) 225-5241
>
> District Office
> 10701 Corporate Drive, Suite 118
> Stafford, TX 77477
> Ph. (281) 240-3700
> Fax (281) 240-2959
>
> UPDATE: National Journal's CongressDailyAM
reports
> today: House GOP staffers involved in
negotiations
> said leaders could deliver a final draft
directly to
> the Rules Committee rather than mark up the
> legislation in the nine differnt panels that
share
> jurisdiction over the issues.
>
> CONTACT: U.S. House of Representatives
> Committee on Rules
> H-312 The Capitol
> Washington, DC 20515
> 202-225-9191
>
>
> RULES CHAIRMAN REP. DAVID DREIER:
> Washington Office
> 237 Cannon HOB
> Washington, DC 20515
> (202) 225-2305
>
> District Office
> 2220 East Route 66
> Suite 225
> Glendora, CA 91740
> (626) 852-2626
> (866) 373-6321
>
*911: The Greatest Lie Ever Sold by Anthony Hilder
The stark, raw reality is that the 9-11 "story"
is THE GREATEST LIE EVER SOLD. American's are
being prepped for the next "staged event" Agents
of the CIA, FBI, NSA, and the propaganda press
will then white-wash "USAMA BIN BUSH!"
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/september2004/220904greatestlie.htm
*Government portrays homeschoolers as terrorists
In an federally funded exercise to prepare
emergency responders for a terrorist attack, a
Michigan county concocted a scenario in which
public-school children were threated by a
fictitious radical group that believes everyone
should be homeschooled.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2004/220904portrayshomeschooler
s.htm
*Kerry: Draft Likely to Return Under Bush
This only serves to steam-valve the draft issue
into phony left-right partisan party political
rhetoric. It makes people switch off and
prevents them from being seriously concerned by
the prospect of conscription.
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/september2004/220904drafttoreturn.htm
*Vote Third Party Or Don't Vote At All
People across America are frustrated, even
infuriated with the choice between Bush and
Kerry. Both politicians support war and economic
policies that destroy prosperity.
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/articles/september2004/220904dontvote.htm
*Airlines Told to Turn Over Passenger Data
Everyone who took a commercial flight within the
United States in June will have his travel
information turned over to the government so it
can test a new system for identifying potential
terrorists.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2004/220904airlinestold.htm
*The Bushes and The Nazis: Alex Jones Interviews
John Buchanan
Reporter John Buchanan and Alex discuss new
revelations on how the Bush family helped Hitler
rise to power.
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/audio/092704buchanan.htm
*Establishment Media Plagued by 'Coincidence
Theorists'
In his eyewitness account of "The Rise and Fall
of the Third Reich," author William Shirer, who
lived in Nazi Germany throughout most of the
1930s, described a phenomenon that will, in
2004, seem disturbingly familiar to Americans
who dissent from the policies of the Bush
regime.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2004/270904coincidencetheorists
.htm
*Mega Search Engine Resource
I've just come across a new search engine
resource on the EscapeArtist website
at
http://www.escapeartist.com/Search_Engines/Search_Engines.html.
When finished, they aim to list over 1,000 different
search engines, some of which
are highly specialised like LawCrawler,
SearchMil, and even one just for Adobe
pdf files, and can be used to track down some
pretty obscure information that
general search engines will probably lose
amongst everything else they pick up.
Worth bookmarking.
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*The Day of Atonement
The Day of Atonement begins at sunset Friday, Sept.
24 and
ends at sunset Sat., Sept. 25
In commemoration of this very specail Feast Day to
God, we are
presenting here a lesson from the old Bible
Correspondence Course.
Even though this lesson is archived in our Library
section now,
we wanted to reproduce it here as you prepare for
this Feast, or to
answer any questions you might have about this day.
Enjoy!
LESSON 37
(1964, 1965, 1969)
AMBASSADOR COLLEGE
BIBLE CORRESPONDENCE COURSE
Which One Is the "Scapegoat"?
About Our Cover ...
In Old Testament times a very special ceremony,
involving
two goats, occurred on the Day of Atonement. One
represented
Christ, the other Satan. Only God could determine
which was
which.
The two goats pictured on our cover are
identical -- yet
they are VERY DIFFERENT.
You need to be sure which you are worshiping --
the real
Christ or the counterfeit!
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Day of Atonement -- AT-ONE-MENT WITH GOD!
You have no doubt heard the claim that there is
a "great
controversy" between God and Satan. That Christ and
the Devil are
in a running battle for men's souls.
If this doctrine were true, then Satan indeed is
WINNING!
More souls are "unsaved" today than ever before in
human history.
Satan, according to this view, is made out to be
actually
STRONGER than Jesus!
But Satan is NOT stronger than Jesus Christ!
Jesus is
returning to RULE THIS EARTH WITH A ROD OF IRON -- to
depose
Satan and set up the Kingdom of God. When Christ
returns He will
not leave this world in the hands of the Devil.
Why Christ OUSTS Satan!
For 6,000 years Satan has invisibly swayed the
nations. He
has guided human governments, influenced man's
civilization,
possessed mighty leaders and inspired World Wars.
Satan has had
his part in causing the misery, hate, suffering, and
violent
deaths that have plagued mankind since creation.
Satan has occupied the POSITION OF THIS WORLD'S
RULER ever
since God gave him that office when he was Lucifer.
But his days
in that office are NUMBERED!
God is not in competition with Satan -- there is
no "great
controversy"! The question of who will rule this
earth has
ALREADY BEEN DECIDED!
Jesus Christ has already OVERCOME the Devil and
QUALIFIED to
replace him. Jesus Christ is COMING AS KING OF KINGS
AND LORD OF
LORDS to take over the governments of this world and
DEPOSE SATAN
THE DEVIL!
Only when Christ reigns supreme will this world
have peace
for one thousand years.
But what will happen to Satan?
The Day of Atonement reveals the answer. But how
many have
ever heard of this day -- let alone understood its
meaning for us
today? It reveals Satan's fate in God's Master Plan.
By studying
this Holy Day you will find astounding answers to
these and many
other questions.
--------------------------------------------------
PHOTO CAPTION: Adolph Hitler -- seen here haranguing
Nazi Storm
Troopers in 1933 at Nuremburg -- yielded to the
unseen pressures
of Satan the Devil. The result was World War II!
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What the Day of Atonement Pictures
God's Holy Days constantly remind us how, step
by step, God
is working out His Master Plan.
The first three of these -- Passover, the Days
of Unleavened
Bread, and Pentecost -- picture the first harvest of
souls. The
preparation, training and final reaping of the
firstfruits --
THOSE FEW NOW being called.
The last four show the plan God has for
completing salvation
for the REST OF THE WORLD.
We learned in the last lesson, how Christ will
suddenly
intervene in this world at His return. He will be
swift and firm
in punishing the nations.
But what about Satan? What happens to him?
The fifth annual Sabbath -- the Day of Atonement
(or
At-one-ment) -- reveals the answer. It pictures
Christ deposing
Satan the Devil from his present position as world
ruler, and
removing him to a place completely away and apart
from mankind.
He will be bound, no longer able to deceive the
nations, for one
thousand years! (Rev. 20:1, 2.)
The Day of Atonement has also a deep PERSONAL
meaning for
EVERYONE whose eyes have been opened. When Satan and
his demons
are dethroned and removed from office, they must be
replaced by
qualified rulers. Satan will be replaced by Jesus
Christ. His
demons by those of us who have surrendered to God and
been
willing to obey Him.
ARE YOU QUALIFYING to rule this world as it
ought to be
ruled? COULD YOU do a better job than the President,
better than
the rulers of Russia, of Germany, or Red China? You
may THINK YOU
could, but COULD YOU really?
The fact is we do not NOW have the power, or the
ability or
capacity. OF HIMSELF no man is great enough to even
BEGIN TO
COMMENCE to measure up to the standard necessary to
bring peace
and happiness to the nations. It takes the power of
God -- the
life of God -- the mind and nature of God. That is
possible only
through conversion. Through conversion every single
individual,
great or small, can have God's own power and nature
added to him
by receiving the Holy Spirit!
That's the message of the gospel.
Most human beings cannot grasp this marvelous
truth. They
are unwilling to humble themselves under the mighty
hand of God
and wait to be exalted in His due time.
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PHOTO CAPTION: General Charles de Gaulle; Joseph
Stalin; Sir
Winston Churchill. This world's leaders rule
according to human
wisdom and/or the whim of their minds. God's plan is
FOR you to
be preparing now to rule this world under Christ as
it ought to
be ruled -- in the World Tomorrow!
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Humility Through Fasting
The Day of Atonement is perhaps the most unusual
Holy Day.
For it is the one day on which God has commanded us
to fast!
WHAT, exactly, is FASTING? What is its purpose?
The purpose of fasting is to humble oneself --
to help us to
see ourselves as we are! And to see God as He is!
Fasting on the Day of Atonement means denying
yourself food
and water for 24 hours -- from sunset to sunset.
Fasting is NOT
penance NOT A HUNGER STRIKE to force your own will on
God.
Mahatma Gandhi fasted that way. A Christian is to
fast in order
to humble his or her own fleshly mind with its carnal
will and to
draw closer to God. To ACKNOWLEDGE his or her own
NOTHINGNESS and
ask for GOD'S strength.
JESUS CHRIST RECEIVED the strength to resist the
Devil's
strongest temptation by fasting 40 days and nights!
Spiritually,
He was at His strongest at the end of 40 days,
because He was
COMPLETELY humble before God. God, of course, doesn't
ask or
expect us to fast 40 days. He only commands one day
of us each
year, though we are also told to fast voluntarily at
other times.
A little hunger on the Day of Atonement serves
to prove to
every one of us that we, as Job, are just like WORMS
(Job 25:6)
-- puny, insignificant little creatures down here
inwardly
WARRING WITH ONE ANOTHER! How absolutely DEPENDENT we
are on the
food and the water of this earth!
Fasting on the Day of Atonement reveals to us
how much we
still love ourselves. How DIFFICULT it is to give up
some of
SELF! This day is a TEST to see which we will put
FIRST. WILL it
be the cry of the body for food or the sincere desire
to obey
God?
LESSON 37
The Binding of Satan
1. Will Satan be bound with a symbolic chain and
locked up
with a key to prevent him from escaping to deceive
mankind? Rev.
20:1-2. Where is Satan cast? Verse 3. Compare Rev.
18:2, and
Isaiah 13:19-21.
2. Does Rev. 18:2 also show where the rest of
the demons
will be, and that they will all be removed from the
presence of
mankind?
3. After God allows the terrible woes of Rev. 9,
to be
unleashed on men, will they repent and turn to God?
Rev. 9:21.
Even after the terrible SEVEN LAST PLAGUES -- the
wrath of God
poured out WITHOUT MIXTURE -- does the greater part
of humanity
still remain obdurate, stubbornly rebellious? Rev.
16:11, 21.
4. Why won't men repent? Is it because they are
deceived?
Rev. 12:9. Are the three unclean spirits of Rev.
16:13, 14
demons? Is their purpose to deceive the world about
Christ's
Second Coming? Same verse. Is Satan himself behind
this scheme?
Note the word "dragon" in verse 13.
5. Did Paul predict the end of world rule by
fallen angels?
Heb. 2:5.
COMMENT: God speaks in His Word, the Holy Bible,
of three
worlds -- 1) "the world that then was" which perished
in the
Flood (II Peter 3:6), 2) "this present evil world"
(Gal. 1:4),
and 3) "the world to come" -- the World Tomorrow
(Rev. 20:3; Heb.
2:5). In the World Tomorrow, the Devil and his demons
will no
longer be in authority over earth's nations and
religion.
6. Did Paul also show who will replace the
demons as rulers
over the world? Rom. 16:20; I Cor. 6:2-3.
7. Does the Bible show that after Satan and his
demons are
put away, their deception and false way of life will
still
maintain its hold for a little while on depraved
human hearts?
Ezek. 38:1-14. Is this after the beginning of
Christ's kingdom on
earth? Verses 8, 11, 14. Aren't these still-deceived
folk a major
portion of the human race?
COMMENT: Meshech and Tubal are the dominant
people of the
U.S.S.R., Gog and Magog include the Mongols and
China, Gomer and
Togarmah are other Asiatic peoples.
8. Will God deal severely with them to show them
He is God?
Ezek. 39:3-7.
COMMENT: Today God doesn't seem real to most
people. Whether
their present religion is Communism, Shamanism or
falsely
so-called "Christianity," GOD IS GOING TO BE REAL to
everyone "in
that day."
A Commanded Assembly
1. Does Leviticus 23 -- the only chapter in all
the Bible
where all of God's Festivals are mentioned in one
place proclaim
a Day of Atonement? Verse 27. Is this a day to be
kept holy once
each year? Same verse. At what time of the year?
2. Are all who are God's people COMMANDED TO
ASSEMBLE on the
Day of Atonement? Lev. 23:27. Does Numbers 29:7
verify this, and
set the exact day on which we meet locally?
3. Does God say that we should afflict our
souls? Lev. 23:27
and Num. 29:7. What does "afflict" mean?
COMMENT: "Afflict" is translated from the Hebrew
word "anah"
which means "to beat down, depress, abase, chasten,
humble." God
inspired the same original word in Exodus 10:3,
saying to
Pharoah, "How long wilt thou refuse to HUMBLE thyself
before me?
let my people go, that they may serve me."
See also in Deut. 8:2, 3 how God led Israel 40
years in the
wilderness to HUMBLE them, allowing them to HUNGER at
times.
How are we, then, to afflict our souls? Why, the
same way
that God humbled Israel in the wilderness, letting
them get good
and hungry! See also Psa. 35:13 and Isa. 58:3.
Remember, "soul" means physical life in a
physical body that
depends on constant refueling for its maintenance.
Here, "soul"
is equivalent to "stomach."
4. Does this day differ from all of the other
Holy Days in
that ABSOLUTELY NO WORK is to be done on it? Num.
29:7; Lev.
23:30 and 16:29. The other Holy Days permit "no
servile work,"
that is, no ordinary work other than what is
necessary for
preparing "that which every man must eat" (Exodus
12:16).
COMMENT: Though a day of fasting, the Day of
Atonement is
also a day of rejoicing. It is a spiritual feast of
drinking in
of God's Word.
5. Why is this day to be kept so straitly? Lev.
23:28. What
does "atonement" mean?
COMMENT: Webster says to "atone" means to set
"at one." To
join in one to form by uniting. This day symbolizes
God and man
being set at one literally, if you please, the Day of
AT-ONE-MENT. God and the human race can never be
fully at one --
in full agreement -- until Satan is banished.
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PHOTO CAPTION: Mahatma Gandhi, seen here with the
late Indian
statesman R. J. Nehru, rose to political power by
fasting for the
purpose of creating strife and division. He fasted to
forward his
idea of independence, not to develop humility God
calls Gandhi's
fasting vain.
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6. Will God allow anyone to remain among His
people who
refuses to keep the Day of Atonement? Lev. 23:29, 30.
Was this
day to be done away at Christ's death? Verse 31. Does
this
command apply only to racial Jews and Israelites?
Lev. 16:29.
Notice that it is a statute for the stranger also --
any person
of any race who comes among God's people.
COMMENT: If we are God's, then we all are spiritual
Israelites. And that means we MUST keep this Day of
Atonement
today (Gal. 3:29; John 4:22; Rom. 2:28, 29; 11:17, 18).
7. At what time of day do we begin fasting for
the Day of
Atonement? Lev. 23:32.
COMMENT: Notice that the last meal we should eat
is in the
ninth day of the month. But if we were to purposely
eat a HEAVY
meal immediately before sunset on the ninth of the
month, we
could defeat the SPIRITUAL INTENT of the command to
"afflict" our
souls from "even unto even" -- because our "souls"
would be full
of food and busily digesting it as the Day of
Atonement began.
In God's true calendar, every day begins at the
previous
day's sunset (Gen. 1:5, 8, 13, 19).
How Ancient Israel Observed Day of Atonement
Especially, it seems, has the world forgotten
the symbolism
of the Day of Atonement. And no wonder! For this day
above all
others is like a thorn in the flesh to that great
Deceiver.
Let us examine the 16th chapter of Leviticus
which details
God's instructions to the Levitical priesthood
concerning the Day
of Atonement.
1. Was entrance to the Tabernacle which Israel
built as a
type of God's house, permitted to no one but the high
priest when
he went into the holy place on the Day of Atonement?
Lev. 16:17.
What was the significance of this very holy place?
Verse 2.
Was it clearly the earthly representation of the
very throne
room of God? Exodus 25:17-20. Compare with Jer.
17:12, noting the
word "sanctuary." Also see Heb. 4:16.
COMMENT: The "mercy seat" in the holy place was
the earthly
TYPE of the very throne of God in heaven!
2. Was the high priest permitted to enter this
typical
throne room of God as often as he liked? Lev. 16:2.
Was this
because God's very presence was there -- He whose
face no man can
look on and live? Ex. 33:20. Could God allow His very
throne to
be profaned?
3. WHEN was the high priest permitted to enter
the room
behind the veil? Notice the last verse of Leviticus
16, and also
verses 29 and 30. See, too, Exodus 30:10.
4. Before entering the "Holy of Holies" or "most
holy
place," what types did the Aaronic high priest first
act out at
the door of the Tabernacle? Lev. 16:5 and 7. Why did
he present
the two goats before the Lord? Was one of the goats
to represent
the LORD? Was the other goat to be rejected? Verse
10. Whom did
the rejected goat represent? Verse 8.
COMMENT: The English word "scapegoat" is NOT A
CORRECT
TRANSLATION of the Hebrew word God inspired. If you
have a Bible
with marginal renderings, notice that it gives
"Azazel" in the
margin, for "scapegoat."
Who is Azazel? Gesenius' and other Hebrew
lexicons derive
the word from AZAL which means "he removed or
separated." This is
exactly what Satan or Lucifer did when he turned
against God and
became God's adversary!
Azazel is none other than Satan the Devil!
Gesenius says that Azazel is "an evil demon."
Ancient Jewish
literature knew the Devil by this name. It is, for
example,
spelled Azalzal and Azael in apocryphal literature. The
Comprehensive Commentary says, "... (According to)
the oldest
opinions of the Hebrews and Christians ... Azazel is
the name of
the Devil, ... the word signified the goat which went
away."
The modern word "scapegoat" carries an ENTIRELY
WRONG
connotation. Originally it was "escape goat" -- the
goat which
was let escape which the translators took to be the
meaning of
Azazel. But today the English word "scapegoat"
signifies "one who
bears blame or guilt for others." This is definitely
not the
meaning that God inspired. Azazel -- Satan -- bears
his own
guilt. Satan is no scapegoat for another's sins. He
is to be
punished for his own guilt.
To be constantly seeking for a scapegoat -- a
way to shift
the blame for his own actions -- is man's natural
inclination,
which Satan incites. All the heathen religions are
based on this
principle. Satan's perversion is: "Always blame
someone else,
never clean up YOURSELF" -- where the source of the
trouble
resides.
Satan would like to deceive everyone into
believing he is
being unjustly used as a scapegoat. Satan claims God
isn't fair.
This principle is NOT THE SAME as the placing of
the sins of
a truly converted Christian on Jesus Christ to be
washed away by
His blood. A Christian does not try to shift the
blame he FREELY
ADMITS HIS OWN GUILT -- something Satan has never
done! And Jesus
Christ freely pays the penalty for the sinner,
provided the
ex-sinner earnestly REPENTS and zealously seeks to
avoid sinning
in the future. JESUS CHRIST IS NO SCAPEGOAT!
5. How was it determined which goat was to be
accepted and
which was to be rejected? Lev. 16:8.
COMMENT: A LOT is a solemn appeal to God to
decide a
doubtful matter. It is a sacred religious ceremony.
It includes a
supernatural act of God. That is why lotteries and
gambling are
of the Devil -- an actual profaning of an ancient
holy ceremony
appealing to God. See Prov. 16:33.
6. Whom did the other goat typify -- the one
which was
accepted? Verses 8 and 9. Was this the YHWH -- the
LORD -- of the
Old Testament, the One who became Jesus Christ (I
Cor. 10:4)?
Then this goat which was sacrificed for a sin
offering and whose
blood was sprinkled on the mercy seat for an
atonement for all
Israel represented Jesus Christ, didn't it? We will
see this more
clearly in a moment.
COMMENT: Although these goats appeared to be
exactly alike
to men, one was to typify Christ and the other
Azazel-Satan. Men
were utterly unqualified to determine which was
suitable to
represent which. Therefore it was necessary to make a
solemn
appeal to God to decide the matter. This means that
in the
antitype -- the REALITY which this symbolic acting out
represented -- men today are unable to determine
which is Christ
and which is Azazel (Satan). It is because
Azazel-Satan has done
his work of deception so thoroughly that mankind as a
whole does
not know who is God and who is the Devil! MOST
CHRISTIAN-PROFESSING PEOPLE, who think they worship
God, ARE
ACTUALLY WORSHIPING THE DEVIL! (II Cor. 11:13-15).
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PHOTO CAPTION: Gambling desecrates the Old Testament
custom of
permitting God to determine a doubtful issue by
casting lots.
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New Testament Explains High Priest's Function
1. Is Christ our perfect, sinless High Priest?
Heb. 6:20;
7:26.
2. Was the high priest of the Aaronic priesthood
-- an
impure mortal human being -- fit to stand in the very
presence of
the sinless spiritual Creator? Lev. 16:2, 3, 6.
COMMENT: The book of Leviticus includes the law
of rituals
-- animal sacrifices, meal and drink offerings,
incense burnings
and various washings -- which the priests in Old
Testament times
had to perform. The apostle Paul called it the "law
of works"
(Greek "ergon", which means physical labor). That was
the law
which "was added because of transgressions till the
seed (Christ)
should come" (Gal. 3:19).
The sacrifices were a substitute for Christ,
designed to
lead Israel to Christ (Gal. 3:24, 25) and therefore
after the
crucifixion ceased to be necessary.
Let us understand the meaning of the rituals in
this chapter
that we may know what had to do specifically with the
Day of
Atonement and what was merely ceremonial.
3. Was the high priest required to wear special
holy
garments (compare Rev. 19:8) and to bathe his whole
body before
being allowed in the presence of God? Lev. 16:4, 23.
Was it
necessary he be accompanied in the most holy place by
a "cloud"
of incense? Verses 12 and 13. What does incense
symbolize? Rev.
5:8.
COMMENT: This incense pictured the kind of
prayer God will
hear. Sweet incense shows our attitude must not be
bitter or
vindictive. As the incense was beaten fine, so must
we be
specific in our prayer. Too many people pray first
for their own
personal desires, then end quickly with something
like, "And, oh
yes, God, bless everybody."
The cloud of incense was not physically to
screen the high
priest from the glory of God. It was only a temporary
ceremonial
type.
As incense arises from hot coals, so prayers are
to ascend
like a cloud from the righteous. Prayers bring God's
people
protection as the incense protected the high priest.
4. Did the high priest have to offer a sin
offering for
himself? Lev. 16:6 and 14. Why was the blood
sprinkled on the
mercy seat? Heb. 9: 13, 7, 20.
COMMENT: In the Ark of the Covenant beneath the
mercy seat
were the two tables of stone (Heb. 9:4) on which God
had engraved
the Ten Commandments with His own finger. Since these
were the
very laws whose breaking made the sin offering
necessary, the
sacrificial blood was sprinkled on and before the
cover to the
Ark, thus symbolically "covering" broken law.
(NOTE: To view a chart titled "Plan of God's
Tabernacle", see
the file BCC3709.TIF in the Images\BCC directory.)
5. What did this ritualistic blood (sin
offering) picture
Christ? Rom. 3:25; Rev. 5:9.
COMMENT: The high priest has completely purified
himself and
is ready to go out and officiate. What follows next
has to do
specifically with the Day of Atonement. Its types
foreshadow New
Testament fulfillments.
6. Did the high priest next offer the goat
chosen by lot
"for the LORD" as a sin offering for all the people?
Lev. 16:15.
Was it not the "LORD" Himself who was slain for the
sins of all
the people and who then assumed the office of High
Priest? Heb.
2:17.
7. Does the New Testament plainly tell us that
Christ as
High Priest and the heaven of God's throne are the
REALITIES
which the Old Testament high priest and Tabernacle only
represented? Heb. 9:23, 24; 8:2, 5. To get the
complete picture,
read the whole of chapter 9 and through the 13th
verse of chapter
10 of Hebrews.
8. Did Christ enter behind the veil to the very
throne of
God in heaven? Heb. 6:19, 20; 8:1. Was it His own
blood which He
presented as an offering for sin? Heb. 9:12.
9. Then did not Christ BEGIN to do what the
Aaronic high
priest did in type on the Day of Atonement? Heb. 9:7;
Lev.
16:15-19.
COMMENT: Note the need for the goat's blood
which symbolized
the blood of Christ. Even the altar, the Tabernacle
and the mercy
seat were considered to be defiled by their presence
among the
carnal, sinning Israelites. This was because
continually all
through the year Israel's sins were symbolically
transferred to
the Tabernacle and its fixtures. Once a year on the
Day of
Atonement this mountainous load of guilt was purged
from the
nation in order that God might continue to dwell in
Israel. For
sin separates from God -- God is holy (Isa. 59:2).
Meaning of Azazel's Removal
1. The high priest carried the blood of the
goat, which
represented the slain Christ, into the sanctuary. Did
the high
priest carrying the blood represent the risen,
resurrected Christ
who ascended into heaven? Heb. 9:7, 12.
Isn't this why the high priest had to be
purified so
minutely?
COMMENT: The first of the two goats was killed
and of course
could not now continue to represent the risen Christ.
The high
priest himself now took that position.
If the world today understood only the
significance of this
goat and of the high priest's actions, they would not
be in
ignorance of the purpose of the coming of Christ.
They would
understand His present intercessory work for us these
1900 years
in heaven.
But this is not all!
Satan has almost succeeded in blinding this
world to HIS
very existence, and to its own need for help to
escape HIM and
draw near to God.
2. What has Christ, our High Priest, been doing
for over
1900 years? Heb. 7:25; 4:14-16.
3. Let us see what Christ will do when He
returns by
following the typical acts of the Levitical high
priest when he
had completed his work in the Tabernacle.
Did he SEIZE the live Azazel goat? Lev. 16:20.
COMMENT: This did not take place until after the
high priest
had finished his work in the Tabernacle. This
typified an act to
take place after the Second Coming of Christ.
4. Did he symbolically place the sins of Israel
on the head
of Azazel? Verse 21. Whose sins were they really?
COMMENT: The laying on of hands symbolizes
setting apart and
bestowing some characteristic attribute.
When Christ died, He paid the penalty of our
sins in our
stead. Therefore, when we repent of our sins, our
debt to the law
of God ceases to exist. So these cannot be our sins
again placed
on Christ, for Him to carry a second time -- nor are
they our
sins to be placed on someone else.
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PHOTO CAPTION: The spectacular shooting of
presidential assassin
Lee Harvey Oswald by Dallas night club owner Jack
Ruby was
witnessed by millions. Such crimes as assassination
and murder
are often influenced by Satan and his demons.
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It is actually Satan who is principally
responsible for the
sins of mankind. Christ paid for OUR part in every
sin of which
we repent. But He did not pay for Satan's part in
these sins, or
the sins of the other demons. Demons are not offered
salvation
through repentance! Though they are spirit and will
live forever,
they cannot be born into the family of God. And they
refuse to
repent! So here are SATAN'S SINS being put right back
on his own
head -- where they belong. God is a God of justice.
This world is in total confusion on the sin
question. It
does not know who is to blame for sin and how sin is
to be paid
for. It only knows fragmentary parts of God's plan
and it gets
even these all mixed up. Practically the ONLY bit of
truth
concerning salvation that is generally known is that
Christ died
to pay for our sins. But most assume that this means
we are saved
in our sins, not FROM sin. So Satan finds it easy to
deceive
people into assuming that the sin-carrying Azazel
must be Christ.
5. Was this dreadful goat sent away from all
mankind
carrying all his sins with him? Verses 21 and 22.
Doesn't this
mean Azazel will no longer be allowed to deceive the
people? Is
this goat pictured as living on? Verses 10, 22.
COMMENT: Satan is a spirit being and therefore
immortal. To
signify that, the goat was permitted to live. But
notice that he
was turned loose only when completely removed from
the presence
of man.
6. Does the wilderness to which the goat was
taken represent
the land of ruins which modern "Babylon" will soon
become? Isa.
13:19-21.
7. After coming in contact with Azazel, did
Aaron have to
wash himself again before coming in contact with the
people? Lev.
16:24. And did the "fit" -- or "capable" -- man who
led the goat
away have to wash his clothes and bathe before coming
into the
camp? Verse 26. The symbolism is certainly that of
having come in
contact with the Devil!
8. Is the mission of this "fit" or "capable" man
mentioned
in the New Testament? Rev. 20:1-3. Does he represent
a mighty
angel?
What At-One-Ment Will Mean to This World!
1. How long, according to the archangel Gabriel,
will it
take Jesus to conquer the rebellious hearts of the
children of
Israel? Dan. 9:27. Who is the "Desolator"? Last part
of verse 27.
COMMENT: Marginal reference Bibles show the word
translated
"desolate" in the King James Authorized Version
should be
"Desolator." The primary desolator of earth is Satan
-- also
called Abaddon and Apollyon -- "Destroyer" (Rev. 9:11).
2. Was Daniel also told it would take 3 1/2
years for the
returned Christ to complete the task of bringing the
world into
at-one-ment? Same verses. What does it mean to
"confirm the
covenant"? See Comment below.
COMMENT: All through this famous prophecy, which
predicted
the exact year of the coming of Jesus the Messiah to
the Jews in
27 A.D., the year for a day principle is employed. A
week thus
becomes 7 years in fulfillment. Christ was to confirm
the
covenant for one week -- 7 years. But the prophecy
also states He
was to be cut off in the "midst of the week" (same
verse),
leaving yet another 3 1/2 years to be fulfilled after
His Second
Coming. He spent 3 1/2 years -- from the autumn of 27
A.D. to the
Passover in 31 A.D. -- confirming the covenant by
personally
teaching and training a first group of true
Christians who are to
be given the rulership of the world the Covenant
promised. At His
return, He will continue what He began by actually
putting them
in power over nations, bringing all into subjection
to the
government -- kingdom -- of God.
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PHOTO CAPTION: Azazel, the live goat, was led out to the
wilderness to wander. This goat was a type of Satan
the Devil who
is an immortal spirit, but will wander the wasted
blackness of
outer darkness through eternity!
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3. What was it the apostle Peter proclaimed was
to occur
when Jesus Christ returns to earth? Acts 3:19-21.
Note the words
"refreshing" and "restitution." But what is it that
is to be
restored to earth? Why, the government of God!
COMMENT: A whole new way of life needs to be
restored to
mankind. It was once offered to Adam and Eve in the
Garden of
Eden, but they quickly rejected it, being taken in by
the
serpent's subtle deception.
What the world needs is obedience to God's
revealed will --
faith instead of skepticism -- relying on the
superior wisdom and
experience of the Creator instead of human wisdom. We
must do
away with reasonings, feelings, desires, and emotions
based on
the pulls of the flesh when it comes to obeying God!
The first step for restoration of Utopia is
reinstitution of
God-authority -- with absolute enforcement and immediate
punishment for infraction of God's law. There will be
a worldwide
system of mayors, judges, lesser and greater kings,
etc. Jesus
referred to these offices in the parables. One will
be given rule
over ten cities, another rule over five, and so forth
(Luke
19:17, 19; Rev. 5:10).
4. What does Peter call the time when God's
government is to
be restored -- the time when Satan's part in sins is
to be
transferred to his own head? Acts 3:19-21.
COMMENT: At-one-ment will not be complete with
merely
putting Satan away. The greatest task will be
remaining. People
will still be hating each other. Man's mind, man's
very nature,
must be refashioned -- his character reshaped and
remolded until
it becomes "at one" with God. Then the fully
confirmed new
covenant will be completed.
5. What will be the attitude of both Israel and
Judah "in
that time"? Jer. 31:9,34; 50:4,5. Who does God blame
for their
past sins and wrong attitudes? Verse 6. Isn't this
Azazel's doing
-- THROUGH his counterfeit ministers? II Cor.
11:13-15. But "in
that time" will Israel and Judah have any more sin?
Jer. 50:20;
Zech. 3:9.
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PHOTO CAPTION: Left: A remarkable panoramic aerial
view of
Jerusalem. In the center, the Temple Mount, over
which the
Islamic shrine "Dome of the Rock" has been built.
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COMMENT: God says, "I will pardon them whom I
reserve" --
those whom He brings back alive through the Great
Tribulation.
There will be at-one-ment between God and Israel.
Israel will
have been brought to her knees -- and to repentance
by the
terrible national punishments to be inflicted on her.
6. Is this the attitude pictured by fasting on
the Day of
Atonement?
COMMENT: The Day of Atonement is a vivid
illustration of the
state of mind necessary for salvation -- of the
humility, the
godly sorrow, the earnest seeking for the right way.
It is also a
warning of the state to which God will be forced to
reduce Israel
by war, captivity, deportation, slavery and persecution.
7. Will the nations of Israel have any more
disagreements or
jealousies of ONE ANOTHER? Isa. 11:13. Will they then
cooperate
to convert Gentile nations to the government of God?
Verse 14.
Also Rom. 11:12, 15.
8. And seeing Israel's right example, will
Gentile nations
willingly, of their own volition, seek to God's
nation for the
way of peace and at-one-ment? Deut. 4:6. See also
Eph. 2:11-16.
9. What will the Gentiles say when they have
learned the
truth -- and realize at last how the father of lies
(John 8:44)
has deceived them? Will they forsake the ways of
their ancestors?
Jer. 16:19.
New Testament Church Kept Day of Atonement
1. Did the apostle Paul tell us God's Holy Days
FORESHADOW
events to come -- illustrate the plan of God in
advance? Col.
2:16-17. Note the proper translation of verse 17 is
that God's
days "foreshadow" good things to come.
COMMENT: Colossae was strictly a Gentile city,
and Paul was
writing to a Church composed of Gentiles by birth.
They had
previously known nothing of God or His Holy Days.
Unless the
ministers of the Church of God had taught them to
observe these
Holy Days, they would never have been "judged" by
outsiders for
doing so.
Verses 16 and 17 are ONE sentence. In this much
misunderstood sentence Paul instructs Christians not
to listen to
any outside man or body of men but to the Body of
Christ -- His
Church -- concerning their weekly and annual
Sabbaths. Note that
the translators of the King James Version erroneously
inserted
the word "is" in verse 17 (in italics in most
Bibles). It is not
found in the original inspired Greek text. The proper
translation
means: "Let no Outsider judge you ... but let the
Body of Christ
-- the Church -- do the judging." Write for a free
article making
this verse plain. It is entitled "Does It Matter
Which Days We
Observe?"
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PHOTO CAPTION: Colossae, a thoroughly Gentile city in
Asia Minor,
was rife with pagan asceticism. They believed fasting
would force
God to hear them. But their doctrines were nothing
more than the
vanity of human will power in denying their bodies food.
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2. Did the New Testament Church keep the Day of
Atonement?
Acts 27:9.
COMMENT: All Biblical scholars know that "the
fast" refers
to the Festival of Atonement in the fall of the year.
Your
marginal reference Bibles will have a note saying
"Day of
Atonement."
Here was the evangelist Luke -- over 30 years
after the
crucifixion and the cessation of all the Mosaic
rituals which
were fulfilled in Christ -- writing that "the fast
was now past"
for that year. Luke would never have thought of
mentioning "the
fast" unless he and all the Church had just been
keeping it! And
if the Day of Atonement were no longer in existence,
the Holy
Spirit could never have inspired these words!
The early New Testament Church of God set the
example for
God's Church today. And the true Church of God today
does keep
all of God's Holy Days -- including the fast of the
Day of
Atonement!
Why We Must Keep "the Fast" Today
1. Was the Day of Atonement chosen as the
beginning of a
time of release? Lev. 25:9, 10. Doesn't this make it
obvious that
the purpose of this Day is to symbolize release from
bondage?
COMMENT: The Jubilee was given the Israelites
that their
poor might be released from debts they were unable to
pay. Every
fiftieth year those who had sold themselves into
slavery for food
to eat and clothes to wear were released. Inherited
land lost
through poverty was restored to the family rightly
owning it.
This is typical of man's future Atonement release
from the
bondage of the demon world -- the temptations and
delusions of
Satan and his demons -- and of the restoration to
each nation of
its own land.
2. Why is it necessary for there to be a Day of
At-one-ment?
Isa. 59:2; Ps. 66:18.
COMMENT: We all, whether Israelite or Gentile,
have sinned
(Rom. 3:23). And so we have become SEPARATED from
God. Our crying
need for reunification -- atonement -- with God is
emphasized by
the fact the word "atonement" appears no less than 45
times in
the book of Leviticus alone.
3. The Old Testament observances so far studied
were
ritualistic. Only the high priest and a few
assistants were
involved in performing them. But the WHOLE POPULATION or
congregation of Israel has a part of its own to play.
That part
is TO FAST AND ABSTAIN from work on the Day of
Atonement. Lev.
23:29-32. Does it say "forever" -- and "throughout your
generations" -- and "in all your dwellings"?
What does the act of fasting indicate sorrow
because of sin?
Ezra 10:6; Deut. 9:8, 9, 18.
4. Isn't the Bible example of spiritual fasting
always to go
without water as well as food? Same verses, and also
Exodus
34:28; Esther 4:16; Acts 9:9.
5. Is it through the minor affliction of fasting
that we
become one with the Christ who suffered so
TREMENDOUSLY FOR us
that we might become at-one with God? Isa. 53:4, 7.
The same
Hebrew word "anah" is used here that is used for
fasting,
afflicting the soul.
COMMENT: The Day of Atonement serves to keep us in
remembrance of the feet that we are still weak mortal
flesh.
The Day of Atonement fast also shows us how much
our lives,
our actions, and our thoughts are taken up with self.
When we get
hungry, we suddenly find that we are still very
carnal minded.
6. The vanity of carnal human nature can cause
us to become
exalted and puffed up with thoughts of self esteem.
On what kind
of man will God look with favor? Isa. 66:2.
COMMENT: Fasting on the Day of Atonement helps
us to realize
just how small and weak we really are, and how
desperately we
need to become more humble and obedient to God.
7. Did Jesus teach that he who humbles himself
shall be
exalted? Luke 14:11. And that no one can be accepted
of God until
he becomes humble? Luke 18:14.
COMMENT: Notice Luke 18:11, that this Pharisee
fasted weekly
from a wrong motive. His fasting was penance,
thinking that God
would be pleased if he made himself suffer, and would
grant him
HIS will. That is not the purpose of the Day of
Atonement. True
humbling is repentance, not penance. It leads to
conversion --
admitting one's human ways are all wrong and turning
to God's
ways, receiving the power of the Holy Spirit to
completely
overshadow one's own puny human strength.
8. What great event should we look forward to as
we fast on
the Day of Atonement? Review I Corinthians 15:35-54.
COMMENT: The glorious spirit bodies we will have
after the
resurrection, or instantaneous change of the just,
will have no
need of food to sustain life. Our physical bodies
today gain
their pittance of chemical energy from plant products
or animal
flesh. Without constant replenishment, we would run
down quickly.
But it is not so with spirit. Spirit contains life
inherent
within itself, not dependent upon any outside source.
When we fast on the Day of Atonement it pictures
to us the
time and condition when we will no longer need to
eat. We will NO
LONGER BE EARTHBOUND, tied to this mundane sphere
with its supply
of physical food and drinkable water. It pictures the
time we
shall have the power to go where we will (John 3:8),
whenever and
wherever necessary to carry out the government of
God, while we
teach others how to live joyfully and happily and how
to inherit
the same wonderful spirit bodies we will have.
We should not sorrow as we fast and "afflict"
our souls on
the Day of Atonement. Though we sorrow for sin, we
rejoice.
Though subdued physically, in spirit we thrill with
life! The Day
of Atonement, like all of God's Holy Days, is a time
of hope and
great rejoicing.
9. The commandment to observe the fast of the
Day of
Atonement is also a TEST of our sincere desire to
really serve
and OBEY God. How does James say we will receive the
ability to
withstand Satan during this LIFE? James 4:6, 7, 10.
Surely
humbling ourselves -- resisting Satan and submitting
to God -- is
symbolic of how we will be able to replace him as
world ruler.
Does Mark 9:29 also show how God's servants receive
the necessary
power to cast out the demons? Is it by prayer AND
fasting?
COMMENT: Those who are truly converted --
surrendered to
God's will -- will keep the Day of Atonement, fasting
and meeting
with others of God's true Church if at all possible.
Those who refuse to keep this day, or who
carelessly keep it
in some manner other than God commanded, are not
converted and
will be "cut off" from among the people of God. Their
part is the
lake of fire WITH Satan. Those ready when Christ
returns will
enter the Kingdom -- the very Family -- of God. But
outside will
be darkness and weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matt.
22:11-13)
reserved for THOSE WHO KNOW their Master's will (Luke
12:46-48)
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*The Day of Atonement
The Day of Atonement begins at sunset Friday, Sept.
24 and
ends at sunset Sat., Sept. 25
In commemoration of this very specail Feast Day to
God, we are
presenting here a lesson from the old Bible
Correspondence Course.
Even though this lesson is archived in our Library
section now,
we wanted to reproduce it here as you prepare for
this Feast, or to
answer any questions you might have about this day.
Enjoy!
LESSON 37
(1964, 1965, 1969)
AMBASSADOR COLLEGE
BIBLE CORRESPONDENCE COURSE
Which One Is the "Scapegoat"?
About Our Cover ...
In Old Testament times a very special ceremony,
involving
two goats, occurred on the Day of Atonement. One
represented
Christ, the other Satan. Only God could determine
which was
which.
The two goats pictured on our cover are
identical -- yet
they are VERY DIFFERENT.
You need to be sure which you are worshiping --
the real
Christ or the counterfeit!
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Day of Atonement -- AT-ONE-MENT WITH GOD!
You have no doubt heard the claim that there is
a "great
controversy" between God and Satan. That Christ and
the Devil are
in a running battle for men's souls.
If this doctrine were true, then Satan indeed is
WINNING!
More souls are "unsaved" today than ever before in
human history.
Satan, according to this view, is made out to be
actually
STRONGER than Jesus!
But Satan is NOT stronger than Jesus Christ!
Jesus is
returning to RULE THIS EARTH WITH A ROD OF IRON -- to
depose
Satan and set up the Kingdom of God. When Christ
returns He will
not leave this world in the hands of the Devil.
Why Christ OUSTS Satan!
For 6,000 years Satan has invisibly swayed the
nations. He
has guided human governments, influenced man's
civilization,
possessed mighty leaders and inspired World Wars.
Satan has had
his part in causing the misery, hate, suffering, and
violent
deaths that have plagued mankind since creation.
Satan has occupied the POSITION OF THIS WORLD'S
RULER ever
since God gave him that office when he was Lucifer.
But his days
in that office are NUMBERED!
God is not in competition with Satan -- there is
no "great
controversy"! The question of who will rule this
earth has
ALREADY BEEN DECIDED!
Jesus Christ has already OVERCOME the Devil and
QUALIFIED to
replace him. Jesus Christ is COMING AS KING OF KINGS
AND LORD OF
LORDS to take over the governments of this world and
DEPOSE SATAN
THE DEVIL!
Only when Christ reigns supreme will this world
have peace
for one thousand years.
But what will happen to Satan?
The Day of Atonement reveals the answer. But how
many have
ever heard of this day -- let alone understood its
meaning for us
today? It reveals Satan's fate in God's Master Plan.
By studying
this Holy Day you will find astounding answers to
these and many
other questions.
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PHOTO CAPTION: Adolph Hitler -- seen here haranguing
Nazi Storm
Troopers in 1933 at Nuremburg -- yielded to the
unseen pressures
of Satan the Devil. The result was World War II!
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What the Day of Atonement Pictures
God's Holy Days constantly remind us how, step
by step, God
is working out His Master Plan.
The first three of these -- Passover, the Days
of Unleavened
Bread, and Pentecost -- picture the first harvest of
souls. The
preparation, training and final reaping of the
firstfruits --
THOSE FEW NOW being called.
The last four show the plan God has for
completing salvation
for the REST OF THE WORLD.
We learned in the last lesson, how Christ will
suddenly
intervene in this world at His return. He will be
swift and firm
in punishing the nations.
But what about Satan? What happens to him?
The fifth annual Sabbath -- the Day of Atonement
(or
At-one-ment) -- reveals the answer. It pictures
Christ deposing
Satan the Devil from his present position as world
ruler, and
removing him to a place completely away and apart
from mankind.
He will be bound, no longer able to deceive the
nations, for one
thousand years! (Rev. 20:1, 2.)
The Day of Atonement has also a deep PERSONAL
meaning for
EVERYONE whose eyes have been opened. When Satan and
his demons
are dethroned and removed from office, they must be
replaced by
qualified rulers. Satan will be replaced by Jesus
Christ. His
demons by those of us who have surrendered to God and
been
willing to obey Him.
ARE YOU QUALIFYING to rule this world as it
ought to be
ruled? COULD YOU do a better job than the President,
better than
the rulers of Russia, of Germany, or Red China? You
may THINK YOU
could, but COULD YOU really?
The fact is we do not NOW have the power, or the
ability or
capacity. OF HIMSELF no man is great enough to even
BEGIN TO
COMMENCE to measure up to the standard necessary to
bring peace
and happiness to the nations. It takes the power of
God -- the
life of God -- the mind and nature of God. That is
possible only
through conversion. Through conversion every single
individual,
great or small, can have God's own power and nature
added to him
by receiving the Holy Spirit!
That's the message of the gospel.
Most human beings cannot grasp this marvelous
truth. They
are unwilling to humble themselves under the mighty
hand of God
and wait to be exalted in His due time.
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PHOTO CAPTION: General Charles de Gaulle; Joseph
Stalin; Sir
Winston Churchill. This world's leaders rule
according to human
wisdom and/or the whim of their minds. God's plan is
FOR you to
be preparing now to rule this world under Christ as
it ought to
be ruled -- in the World Tomorrow!
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Humility Through Fasting
The Day of Atonement is perhaps the most unusual
Holy Day.
For it is the one day on which God has commanded us
to fast!
WHAT, exactly, is FASTING? What is its purpose?
The purpose of fasting is to humble oneself --
to help us to
see ourselves as we are! And to see God as He is!
Fasting on the Day of Atonement means denying
yourself food
and water for 24 hours -- from sunset to sunset.
Fasting is NOT
penance NOT A HUNGER STRIKE to force your own will on
God.
Mahatma Gandhi fasted that way. A Christian is to
fast in order
to humble his or her own fleshly mind with its carnal
will and to
draw closer to God. To ACKNOWLEDGE his or her own
NOTHINGNESS and
ask for GOD'S strength.
JESUS CHRIST RECEIVED the strength to resist the
Devil's
strongest temptation by fasting 40 days and nights!
Spiritually,
He was at His strongest at the end of 40 days,
because He was
COMPLETELY humble before God. God, of course, doesn't
ask or
expect us to fast 40 days. He only commands one day
of us each
year, though we are also told to fast voluntarily at
other times.
A little hunger on the Day of Atonement serves
to prove to
every one of us that we, as Job, are just like WORMS
(Job 25:6)
-- puny, insignificant little creatures down here
inwardly
WARRING WITH ONE ANOTHER! How absolutely DEPENDENT we
are on the
food and the water of this earth!
Fasting on the Day of Atonement reveals to us
how much we
still love ourselves. How DIFFICULT it is to give up
some of
SELF! This day is a TEST to see which we will put
FIRST. WILL it
be the cry of the body for food or the sincere desire
to obey
God?
LESSON 37
The Binding of Satan
1. Will Satan be bound with a symbolic chain and
locked up
with a key to prevent him from escaping to deceive
mankind? Rev.
20:1-2. Where is Satan cast? Verse 3. Compare Rev.
18:2, and
Isaiah 13:19-21.
2. Does Rev. 18:2 also show where the rest of
the demons
will be, and that they will all be removed from the
presence of
mankind?
3. After God allows the terrible woes of Rev. 9,
to be
unleashed on men, will they repent and turn to God?
Rev. 9:21.
Even after the terrible SEVEN LAST PLAGUES -- the
wrath of God
poured out WITHOUT MIXTURE -- does the greater part
of humanity
still remain obdurate, stubbornly rebellious? Rev.
16:11, 21.
4. Why won't men repent? Is it because they are
deceived?
Rev. 12:9. Are the three unclean spirits of Rev.
16:13, 14
demons? Is their purpose to deceive the world about
Christ's
Second Coming? Same verse. Is Satan himself behind
this scheme?
Note the word "dragon" in verse 13.
5. Did Paul predict the end of world rule by
fallen angels?
Heb. 2:5.
COMMENT: God speaks in His Word, the Holy Bible,
of three
worlds -- 1) "the world that then was" which perished
in the
Flood (II Peter 3:6), 2) "this present evil world"
(Gal. 1:4),
and 3) "the world to come" -- the World Tomorrow
(Rev. 20:3; Heb.
2:5). In the World Tomorrow, the Devil and his demons
will no
longer be in authority over earth's nations and
religion.
6. Did Paul also show who will replace the
demons as rulers
over the world? Rom. 16:20; I Cor. 6:2-3.
7. Does the Bible show that after Satan and his
demons are
put away, their deception and false way of life will
still
maintain its hold for a little while on depraved
human hearts?
Ezek. 38:1-14. Is this after the beginning of
Christ's kingdom on
earth? Verses 8, 11, 14. Aren't these still-deceived
folk a major
portion of the human race?
COMMENT: Meshech and Tubal are the dominant
people of the
U.S.S.R., Gog and Magog include the Mongols and
China, Gomer and
Togarmah are other Asiatic peoples.
8. Will God deal severely with them to show them
He is God?
Ezek. 39:3-7.
COMMENT: Today God doesn't seem real to most
people. Whether
their present religion is Communism, Shamanism or
falsely
so-called "Christianity," GOD IS GOING TO BE REAL to
everyone "in
that day."
A Commanded Assembly
1. Does Leviticus 23 -- the only chapter in all
the Bible
where all of God's Festivals are mentioned in one
place proclaim
a Day of Atonement? Verse 27. Is this a day to be
kept holy once
each year? Same verse. At what time of the year?
2. Are all who are God's people COMMANDED TO
ASSEMBLE on the
Day of Atonement? Lev. 23:27. Does Numbers 29:7
verify this, and
set the exact day on which we meet locally?
3. Does God say that we should afflict our
souls? Lev. 23:27
and Num. 29:7. What does "afflict" mean?
COMMENT: "Afflict" is translated from the Hebrew
word "anah"
which means "to beat down, depress, abase, chasten,
humble." God
inspired the same original word in Exodus 10:3,
saying to
Pharoah, "How long wilt thou refuse to HUMBLE thyself
before me?
let my people go, that they may serve me."
See also in Deut. 8:2, 3 how God led Israel 40
years in the
wilderness to HUMBLE them, allowing them to HUNGER at
times.
How are we, then, to afflict our souls? Why, the
same way
that God humbled Israel in the wilderness, letting
them get good
and hungry! See also Psa. 35:13 and Isa. 58:3.
Remember, "soul" means physical life in a
physical body that
depends on constant refueling for its maintenance.
Here, "soul"
is equivalent to "stomach."
4. Does this day differ from all of the other
Holy Days in
that ABSOLUTELY NO WORK is to be done on it? Num.
29:7; Lev.
23:30 and 16:29. The other Holy Days permit "no
servile work,"
that is, no ordinary work other than what is
necessary for
preparing "that which every man must eat" (Exodus
12:16).
COMMENT: Though a day of fasting, the Day of
Atonement is
also a day of rejoicing. It is a spiritual feast of
drinking in
of God's Word.
5. Why is this day to be kept so straitly? Lev.
23:28. What
does "atonement" mean?
COMMENT: Webster says to "atone" means to set
"at one." To
join in one to form by uniting. This day symbolizes
God and man
being set at one literally, if you please, the Day of
AT-ONE-MENT. God and the human race can never be
fully at one --
in full agreement -- until Satan is banished.
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PHOTO CAPTION: Mahatma Gandhi, seen here with the
late Indian
statesman R. J. Nehru, rose to political power by
fasting for the
purpose of creating strife and division. He fasted to
forward his
idea of independence, not to develop humility God
calls Gandhi's
fasting vain.
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6. Will God allow anyone to remain among His
people who
refuses to keep the Day of Atonement? Lev. 23:29, 30.
Was this
day to be done away at Christ's death? Verse 31. Does
this
command apply only to racial Jews and Israelites?
Lev. 16:29.
Notice that it is a statute for the stranger also --
any person
of any race who comes among God's people.
COMMENT: If we are God's, then we all are spiritual
Israelites. And that means we MUST keep this Day of
Atonement
today (Gal. 3:29; John 4:22; Rom. 2:28, 29; 11:17, 18).
7. At what time of day do we begin fasting for
the Day of
Atonement? Lev. 23:32.
COMMENT: Notice that the last meal we should eat
is in the
ninth day of the month. But if we were to purposely
eat a HEAVY
meal immediately before sunset on the ninth of the
month, we
could defeat the SPIRITUAL INTENT of the command to
"afflict" our
souls from "even unto even" -- because our "souls"
would be full
of food and busily digesting it as the Day of
Atonement began.
In God's true calendar, every day begins at the
previous
day's sunset (Gen. 1:5, 8, 13, 19).
How Ancient Israel Observed Day of Atonement
Especially, it seems, has the world forgotten
the symbolism
of the Day of Atonement. And no wonder! For this day
above all
others is like a thorn in the flesh to that great
Deceiver.
Let us examine the 16th chapter of Leviticus
which details
God's instructions to the Levitical priesthood
concerning the Day
of Atonement.
1. Was entrance to the Tabernacle which Israel
built as a
type of God's house, permitted to no one but the high
priest when
he went into the holy place on the Day of Atonement?
Lev. 16:17.
What was the significance of this very holy place?
Verse 2.
Was it clearly the earthly representation of the
very throne
room of God? Exodus 25:17-20. Compare with Jer.
17:12, noting the
word "sanctuary." Also see Heb. 4:16.
COMMENT: The "mercy seat" in the holy place was
the earthly
TYPE of the very throne of God in heaven!
2. Was the high priest permitted to enter this
typical
throne room of God as often as he liked? Lev. 16:2.
Was this
because God's very presence was there -- He whose
face no man can
look on and live? Ex. 33:20. Could God allow His very
throne to
be profaned?
3. WHEN was the high priest permitted to enter
the room
behind the veil? Notice the last verse of Leviticus
16, and also
verses 29 and 30. See, too, Exodus 30:10.
4. Before entering the "Holy of Holies" or "most
holy
place," what types did the Aaronic high priest first
act out at
the door of the Tabernacle? Lev. 16:5 and 7. Why did
he present
the two goats before the Lord? Was one of the goats
to represent
the LORD? Was the other goat to be rejected? Verse
10. Whom did
the rejected goat represent? Verse 8.
COMMENT: The English word "scapegoat" is NOT A
CORRECT
TRANSLATION of the Hebrew word God inspired. If you
have a Bible
with marginal renderings, notice that it gives
"Azazel" in the
margin, for "scapegoat."
Who is Azazel? Gesenius' and other Hebrew
lexicons derive
the word from AZAL which means "he removed or
separated." This is
exactly what Satan or Lucifer did when he turned
against God and
became God's adversary!
Azazel is none other than Satan the Devil!
Gesenius says that Azazel is "an evil demon."
Ancient Jewish
literature knew the Devil by this name. It is, for
example,
spelled Azalzal and Azael in apocryphal literature. The
Comprehensive Commentary says, "... (According to)
the oldest
opinions of the Hebrews and Christians ... Azazel is
the name of
the Devil, ... the word signified the goat which went
away."
The modern word "scapegoat" carries an ENTIRELY
WRONG
connotation. Originally it was "escape goat" -- the
goat which
was let escape which the translators took to be the
meaning of
Azazel. But today the English word "scapegoat"
signifies "one who
bears blame or guilt for others." This is definitely
not the
meaning that God inspired. Azazel -- Satan -- bears
his own
guilt. Satan is no scapegoat for another's sins. He
is to be
punished for his own guilt.
To be constantly seeking for a scapegoat -- a
way to shift
the blame for his own actions -- is man's natural
inclination,
which Satan incites. All the heathen religions are
based on this
principle. Satan's perversion is: "Always blame
someone else,
never clean up YOURSELF" -- where the source of the
trouble
resides.
Satan would like to deceive everyone into
believing he is
being unjustly used as a scapegoat. Satan claims God
isn't fair.
This principle is NOT THE SAME as the placing of
the sins of
a truly converted Christian on Jesus Christ to be
washed away by
His blood. A Christian does not try to shift the
blame he FREELY
ADMITS HIS OWN GUILT -- something Satan has never
done! And Jesus
Christ freely pays the penalty for the sinner,
provided the
ex-sinner earnestly REPENTS and zealously seeks to
avoid sinning
in the future. JESUS CHRIST IS NO SCAPEGOAT!
5. How was it determined which goat was to be
accepted and
which was to be rejected? Lev. 16:8.
COMMENT: A LOT is a solemn appeal to God to
decide a
doubtful matter. It is a sacred religious ceremony.
It includes a
supernatural act of God. That is why lotteries and
gambling are
of the Devil -- an actual profaning of an ancient
holy ceremony
appealing to God. See Prov. 16:33.
6. Whom did the other goat typify -- the one
which was
accepted? Verses 8 and 9. Was this the YHWH -- the
LORD -- of the
Old Testament, the One who became Jesus Christ (I
Cor. 10:4)?
Then this goat which was sacrificed for a sin
offering and whose
blood was sprinkled on the mercy seat for an
atonement for all
Israel represented Jesus Christ, didn't it? We will
see this more
clearly in a moment.
COMMENT: Although these goats appeared to be
exactly alike
to men, one was to typify Christ and the other
Azazel-Satan. Men
were utterly unqualified to determine which was
suitable to
represent which. Therefore it was necessary to make a
solemn
appeal to God to decide the matter. This means that
in the
antitype -- the REALITY which this symbolic acting out
represented -- men today are unable to determine
which is Christ
and which is Azazel (Satan). It is because
Azazel-Satan has done
his work of deception so thoroughly that mankind as a
whole does
not know who is God and who is the Devil! MOST
CHRISTIAN-PROFESSING PEOPLE, who think they worship
God, ARE
ACTUALLY WORSHIPING THE DEVIL! (II Cor. 11:13-15).
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PHOTO CAPTION: Gambling desecrates the Old Testament
custom of
permitting God to determine a doubtful issue by
casting lots.
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New Testament Explains High Priest's Function
1. Is Christ our perfect, sinless High Priest?
Heb. 6:20;
7:26.
2. Was the high priest of the Aaronic priesthood
-- an
impure mortal human being -- fit to stand in the very
presence of
the sinless spiritual Creator? Lev. 16:2, 3, 6.
COMMENT: The book of Leviticus includes the law
of rituals
-- animal sacrifices, meal and drink offerings,
incense burnings
and various washings -- which the priests in Old
Testament times
had to perform. The apostle Paul called it the "law
of works"
(Greek "ergon", which means physical labor). That was
the law
which "was added because of transgressions till the
seed (Christ)
should come" (Gal. 3:19).
The sacrifices were a substitute for Christ,
designed to
lead Israel to Christ (Gal. 3:24, 25) and therefore
after the
crucifixion ceased to be necessary.
Let us understand the meaning of the rituals in
this chapter
that we may know what had to do specifically with the
Day of
Atonement and what was merely ceremonial.
3. Was the high priest required to wear special
holy
garments (compare Rev. 19:8) and to bathe his whole
body before
being allowed in the presence of God? Lev. 16:4, 23.
Was it
necessary he be accompanied in the most holy place by
a "cloud"
of incense? Verses 12 and 13. What does incense
symbolize? Rev.
5:8.
COMMENT: This incense pictured the kind of
prayer God will
hear. Sweet incense shows our attitude must not be
bitter or
vindictive. As the incense was beaten fine, so must
we be
specific in our prayer. Too many people pray first
for their own
personal desires, then end quickly with something
like, "And, oh
yes, God, bless everybody."
The cloud of incense was not physically to
screen the high
priest from the glory of God. It was only a temporary
ceremonial
type.
As incense arises from hot coals, so prayers are
to ascend
like a cloud from the righteous. Prayers bring God's
people
protection as the incense protected the high priest.
4. Did the high priest have to offer a sin
offering for
himself? Lev. 16:6 and 14. Why was the blood
sprinkled on the
mercy seat? Heb. 9: 13, 7, 20.
COMMENT: In the Ark of the Covenant beneath the
mercy seat
were the two tables of stone (Heb. 9:4) on which God
had engraved
the Ten Commandments with His own finger. Since these
were the
very laws whose breaking made the sin offering
necessary, the
sacrificial blood was sprinkled on and before the
cover to the
Ark, thus symbolically "covering" broken law.
(NOTE: To view a chart titled "Plan of God's
Tabernacle", see
the file BCC3709.TIF in the Images\BCC directory.)
5. What did this ritualistic blood (sin
offering) picture
Christ? Rom. 3:25; Rev. 5:9.
COMMENT: The high priest has completely purified
himself and
is ready to go out and officiate. What follows next
has to do
specifically with the Day of Atonement. Its types
foreshadow New
Testament fulfillments.
6. Did the high priest next offer the goat
chosen by lot
"for the LORD" as a sin offering for all the people?
Lev. 16:15.
Was it not the "LORD" Himself who was slain for the
sins of all
the people and who then assumed the office of High
Priest? Heb.
2:17.
7. Does the New Testament plainly tell us that
Christ as
High Priest and the heaven of God's throne are the
REALITIES
which the Old Testament high priest and Tabernacle only
represented? Heb. 9:23, 24; 8:2, 5. To get the
complete picture,
read the whole of chapter 9 and through the 13th
verse of chapter
10 of Hebrews.
8. Did Christ enter behind the veil to the very
throne of
God in heaven? Heb. 6:19, 20; 8:1. Was it His own
blood which He
presented as an offering for sin? Heb. 9:12.
9. Then did not Christ BEGIN to do what the
Aaronic high
priest did in type on the Day of Atonement? Heb. 9:7;
Lev.
16:15-19.
COMMENT: Note the need for the goat's blood
which symbolized
the blood of Christ. Even the altar, the Tabernacle
and the mercy
seat were considered to be defiled by their presence
among the
carnal, sinning Israelites. This was because
continually all
through the year Israel's sins were symbolically
transferred to
the Tabernacle and its fixtures. Once a year on the
Day of
Atonement this mountainous load of guilt was purged
from the
nation in order that God might continue to dwell in
Israel. For
sin separates from God -- God is holy (Isa. 59:2).
Meaning of Azazel's Removal
1. The high priest carried the blood of the
goat, which
represented the slain Christ, into the sanctuary. Did
the high
priest carrying the blood represent the risen,
resurrected Christ
who ascended into heaven? Heb. 9:7, 12.
Isn't this why the high priest had to be
purified so
minutely?
COMMENT: The first of the two goats was killed
and of course
could not now continue to represent the risen Christ.
The high
priest himself now took that position.
If the world today understood only the
significance of this
goat and of the high priest's actions, they would not
be in
ignorance of the purpose of the coming of Christ.
They would
understand His present intercessory work for us these
1900 years
in heaven.
But this is not all!
Satan has almost succeeded in blinding this
world to HIS
very existence, and to its own need for help to
escape HIM and
draw near to God.
2. What has Christ, our High Priest, been doing
for over
1900 years? Heb. 7:25; 4:14-16.
3. Let us see what Christ will do when He
returns by
following the typical acts of the Levitical high
priest when he
had completed his work in the Tabernacle.
Did he SEIZE the live Azazel goat? Lev. 16:20.
COMMENT: This did not take place until after the
high priest
had finished his work in the Tabernacle. This
typified an act to
take place after the Second Coming of Christ.
4. Did he symbolically place the sins of Israel
on the head
of Azazel? Verse 21. Whose sins were they really?
COMMENT: The laying on of hands symbolizes
setting apart and
bestowing some characteristic attribute.
When Christ died, He paid the penalty of our
sins in our
stead. Therefore, when we repent of our sins, our
debt to the law
of God ceases to exist. So these cannot be our sins
again placed
on Christ, for Him to carry a second time -- nor are
they our
sins to be placed on someone else.
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PHOTO CAPTION: The spectacular shooting of
presidential assassin
Lee Harvey Oswald by Dallas night club owner Jack
Ruby was
witnessed by millions. Such crimes as assassination
and murder
are often influenced by Satan and his demons.
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It is actually Satan who is principally
responsible for the
sins of mankind. Christ paid for OUR part in every
sin of which
we repent. But He did not pay for Satan's part in
these sins, or
the sins of the other demons. Demons are not offered
salvation
through repentance! Though they are spirit and will
live forever,
they cannot be born into the family of God. And they
refuse to
repent! So here are SATAN'S SINS being put right back
on his own
head -- where they belong. God is a God of justice.
This world is in total confusion on the sin
question. It
does not know who is to blame for sin and how sin is
to be paid
for. It only knows fragmentary parts of God's plan
and it gets
even these all mixed up. Practically the ONLY bit of
truth
concerning salvation that is generally known is that
Christ died
to pay for our sins. But most assume that this means
we are saved
in our sins, not FROM sin. So Satan finds it easy to
deceive
people into assuming that the sin-carrying Azazel
must be Christ.
5. Was this dreadful goat sent away from all
mankind
carrying all his sins with him? Verses 21 and 22.
Doesn't this
mean Azazel will no longer be allowed to deceive the
people? Is
this goat pictured as living on? Verses 10, 22.
COMMENT: Satan is a spirit being and therefore
immortal. To
signify that, the goat was permitted to live. But
notice that he
was turned loose only when completely removed from
the presence
of man.
6. Does the wilderness to which the goat was
taken represent
the land of ruins which modern "Babylon" will soon
become? Isa.
13:19-21.
7. After coming in contact with Azazel, did
Aaron have to
wash himself again before coming in contact with the
people? Lev.
16:24. And did the "fit" -- or "capable" -- man who
led the goat
away have to wash his clothes and bathe before coming
into the
camp? Verse 26. The symbolism is certainly that of
having come in
contact with the Devil!
8. Is the mission of this "fit" or "capable" man
mentioned
in the New Testament? Rev. 20:1-3. Does he represent
a mighty
angel?
What At-One-Ment Will Mean to This World!
1. How long, according to the archangel Gabriel,
will it
take Jesus to conquer the rebellious hearts of the
children of
Israel? Dan. 9:27. Who is the "Desolator"? Last part
of verse 27.
COMMENT: Marginal reference Bibles show the word
translated
"desolate" in the King James Authorized Version
should be
"Desolator." The primary desolator of earth is Satan
-- also
called Abaddon and Apollyon -- "Destroyer" (Rev. 9:11).
2. Was Daniel also told it would take 3 1/2
years for the
returned Christ to complete the task of bringing the
world into
at-one-ment? Same verses. What does it mean to
"confirm the
covenant"? See Comment below.
COMMENT: All through this famous prophecy, which
predicted
the exact year of the coming of Jesus the Messiah to
the Jews in
27 A.D., the year for a day principle is employed. A
week thus
becomes 7 years in fulfillment. Christ was to confirm
the
covenant for one week -- 7 years. But the prophecy
also states He
was to be cut off in the "midst of the week" (same
verse),
leaving yet another 3 1/2 years to be fulfilled after
His Second
Coming. He spent 3 1/2 years -- from the autumn of 27
A.D. to the
Passover in 31 A.D. -- confirming the covenant by
personally
teaching and training a first group of true
Christians who are to
be given the rulership of the world the Covenant
promised. At His
return, He will continue what He began by actually
putting them
in power over nations, bringing all into subjection
to the
government -- kingdom -- of God.
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PHOTO CAPTION: Azazel, the live goat, was led out to the
wilderness to wander. This goat was a type of Satan
the Devil who
is an immortal spirit, but will wander the wasted
blackness of
outer darkness through eternity!
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3. What was it the apostle Peter proclaimed was
to occur
when Jesus Christ returns to earth? Acts 3:19-21.
Note the words
"refreshing" and "restitution." But what is it that
is to be
restored to earth? Why, the government of God!
COMMENT: A whole new way of life needs to be
restored to
mankind. It was once offered to Adam and Eve in the
Garden of
Eden, but they quickly rejected it, being taken in by
the
serpent's subtle deception.
What the world needs is obedience to God's
revealed will --
faith instead of skepticism -- relying on the
superior wisdom and
experience of the Creator instead of human wisdom. We
must do
away with reasonings, feelings, desires, and emotions
based on
the pulls of the flesh when it comes to obeying God!
The first step for restoration of Utopia is
reinstitution of
God-authority -- with absolute enforcement and immediate
punishment for infraction of God's law. There will be
a worldwide
system of mayors, judges, lesser and greater kings,
etc. Jesus
referred to these offices in the parables. One will
be given rule
over ten cities, another rule over five, and so forth
(Luke
19:17, 19; Rev. 5:10).
4. What does Peter call the time when God's
government is to
be restored -- the time when Satan's part in sins is
to be
transferred to his own head? Acts 3:19-21.
COMMENT: At-one-ment will not be complete with
merely
putting Satan away. The greatest task will be
remaining. People
will still be hating each other. Man's mind, man's
very nature,
must be refashioned -- his character reshaped and
remolded until
it becomes "at one" with God. Then the fully
confirmed new
covenant will be completed.
5. What will be the attitude of both Israel and
Judah "in
that time"? Jer. 31:9,34; 50:4,5. Who does God blame
for their
past sins and wrong attitudes? Verse 6. Isn't this
Azazel's doing
-- THROUGH his counterfeit ministers? II Cor.
11:13-15. But "in
that time" will Israel and Judah have any more sin?
Jer. 50:20;
Zech. 3:9.
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PHOTO CAPTION: Left: A remarkable panoramic aerial
view of
Jerusalem. In the center, the Temple Mount, over
which the
Islamic shrine "Dome of the Rock" has been built.
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COMMENT: God says, "I will pardon them whom I
reserve" --
those whom He brings back alive through the Great
Tribulation.
There will be at-one-ment between God and Israel.
Israel will
have been brought to her knees -- and to repentance
by the
terrible national punishments to be inflicted on her.
6. Is this the attitude pictured by fasting on
the Day of
Atonement?
COMMENT: The Day of Atonement is a vivid
illustration of the
state of mind necessary for salvation -- of the
humility, the
godly sorrow, the earnest seeking for the right way.
It is also a
warning of the state to which God will be forced to
reduce Israel
by war, captivity, deportation, slavery and persecution.
7. Will the nations of Israel have any more
disagreements or
jealousies of ONE ANOTHER? Isa. 11:13. Will they then
cooperate
to convert Gentile nations to the government of God?
Verse 14.
Also Rom. 11:12, 15.
8. And seeing Israel's right example, will
Gentile nations
willingly, of their own volition, seek to God's
nation for the
way of peace and at-one-ment? Deut. 4:6. See also
Eph. 2:11-16.
9. What will the Gentiles say when they have
learned the
truth -- and realize at last how the father of lies
(John 8:44)
has deceived them? Will they forsake the ways of
their ancestors?
Jer. 16:19.
New Testament Church Kept Day of Atonement
1. Did the apostle Paul tell us God's Holy Days
FORESHADOW
events to come -- illustrate the plan of God in
advance? Col.
2:16-17. Note the proper translation of verse 17 is
that God's
days "foreshadow" good things to come.
COMMENT: Colossae was strictly a Gentile city,
and Paul was
writing to a Church composed of Gentiles by birth.
They had
previously known nothing of God or His Holy Days.
Unless the
ministers of the Church of God had taught them to
observe these
Holy Days, they would never have been "judged" by
outsiders for
doing so.
Verses 16 and 17 are ONE sentence. In this much
misunderstood sentence Paul instructs Christians not
to listen to
any outside man or body of men but to the Body of
Christ -- His
Church -- concerning their weekly and annual
Sabbaths. Note that
the translators of the King James Version erroneously
inserted
the word "is" in verse 17 (in italics in most
Bibles). It is not
found in the original inspired Greek text. The proper
translation
means: "Let no Outsider judge you ... but let the
Body of Christ
-- the Church -- do the judging." Write for a free
article making
this verse plain. It is entitled "Does It Matter
Which Days We
Observe?"
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PHOTO CAPTION: Colossae, a thoroughly Gentile city in
Asia Minor,
was rife with pagan asceticism. They believed fasting
would force
God to hear them. But their doctrines were nothing
more than the
vanity of human will power in denying their bodies food.
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2. Did the New Testament Church keep the Day of
Atonement?
Acts 27:9.
COMMENT: All Biblical scholars know that "the
fast" refers
to the Festival of Atonement in the fall of the year.
Your
marginal reference Bibles will have a note saying
"Day of
Atonement."
Here was the evangelist Luke -- over 30 years
after the
crucifixion and the cessation of all the Mosaic
rituals which
were fulfilled in Christ -- writing that "the fast
was now past"
for that year. Luke would never have thought of
mentioning "the
fast" unless he and all the Church had just been
keeping it! And
if the Day of Atonement were no longer in existence,
the Holy
Spirit could never have inspired these words!
The early New Testament Church of God set the
example for
God's Church today. And the true Church of God today
does keep
all of God's Holy Days -- including the fast of the
Day of
Atonement!
Why We Must Keep "the Fast" Today
1. Was the Day of Atonement chosen as the
beginning of a
time of release? Lev. 25:9, 10. Doesn't this make it
obvious that
the purpose of this Day is to symbolize release from
bondage?
COMMENT: The Jubilee was given the Israelites
that their
poor might be released from debts they were unable to
pay. Every
fiftieth year those who had sold themselves into
slavery for food
to eat and clothes to wear were released. Inherited
land lost
through poverty was restored to the family rightly
owning it.
This is typical of man's future Atonement release
from the
bondage of the demon world -- the temptations and
delusions of
Satan and his demons -- and of the restoration to
each nation of
its own land.
2. Why is it necessary for there to be a Day of
At-one-ment?
Isa. 59:2; Ps. 66:18.
COMMENT: We all, whether Israelite or Gentile,
have sinned
(Rom. 3:23). And so we have become SEPARATED from
God. Our crying
need for reunification -- atonement -- with God is
emphasized by
the fact the word "atonement" appears no less than 45
times in
the book of Leviticus alone.
3. The Old Testament observances so far studied
were
ritualistic. Only the high priest and a few
assistants were
involved in performing them. But the WHOLE POPULATION or
congregation of Israel has a part of its own to play.
That part
is TO FAST AND ABSTAIN from work on the Day of
Atonement. Lev.
23:29-32. Does it say "forever" -- and "throughout your
generations" -- and "in all your dwellings"?
What does the act of fasting indicate sorrow
because of sin?
Ezra 10:6; Deut. 9:8, 9, 18.
4. Isn't the Bible example of spiritual fasting
always to go
without water as well as food? Same verses, and also
Exodus
34:28; Esther 4:16; Acts 9:9.
5. Is it through the minor affliction of fasting
that we
become one with the Christ who suffered so
TREMENDOUSLY FOR us
that we might become at-one with God? Isa. 53:4, 7.
The same
Hebrew word "anah" is used here that is used for
fasting,
afflicting the soul.
COMMENT: The Day of Atonement serves to keep us in
remembrance of the feet that we are still weak mortal
flesh.
The Day of Atonement fast also shows us how much
our lives,
our actions, and our thoughts are taken up with self.
When we get
hungry, we suddenly find that we are still very
carnal minded.
6. The vanity of carnal human nature can cause
us to become
exalted and puffed up with thoughts of self esteem.
On what kind
of man will God look with favor? Isa. 66:2.
COMMENT: Fasting on the Day of Atonement helps
us to realize
just how small and weak we really are, and how
desperately we
need to become more humble and obedient to God.
7. Did Jesus teach that he who humbles himself
shall be
exalted? Luke 14:11. And that no one can be accepted
of God until
he becomes humble? Luke 18:14.
COMMENT: Notice Luke 18:11, that this Pharisee
fasted weekly
from a wrong motive. His fasting was penance,
thinking that God
would be pleased if he made himself suffer, and would
grant him
HIS will. That is not the purpose of the Day of
Atonement. True
humbling is repentance, not penance. It leads to
conversion --
admitting one's human ways are all wrong and turning
to God's
ways, receiving the power of the Holy Spirit to
completely
overshadow one's own puny human strength.
8. What great event should we look forward to as
we fast on
the Day of Atonement? Review I Corinthians 15:35-54.
COMMENT: The glorious spirit bodies we will have
after the
resurrection, or instantaneous change of the just,
will have no
need of food to sustain life. Our physical bodies
today gain
their pittance of chemical energy from plant products
or animal
flesh. Without constant replenishment, we would run
down quickly.
But it is not so with spirit. Spirit contains life
inherent
within itself, not dependent upon any outside source.
When we fast on the Day of Atonement it pictures
to us the
time and condition when we will no longer need to
eat. We will NO
LONGER BE EARTHBOUND, tied to this mundane sphere
with its supply
of physical food and drinkable water. It pictures the
time we
shall have the power to go where we will (John 3:8),
whenever and
wherever necessary to carry out the government of
God, while we
teach others how to live joyfully and happily and how
to inherit
the same wonderful spirit bodies we will have.
We should not sorrow as we fast and "afflict"
our souls on
the Day of Atonement. Though we sorrow for sin, we
rejoice.
Though subdued physically, in spirit we thrill with
life! The Day
of Atonement, like all of God's Holy Days, is a time
of hope and
great rejoicing.
9. The commandment to observe the fast of the
Day of
Atonement is also a TEST of our sincere desire to
really serve
and OBEY God. How does James say we will receive the
ability to
withstand Satan during this LIFE? James 4:6, 7, 10.
Surely
humbling ourselves -- resisting Satan and submitting
to God -- is
symbolic of how we will be able to replace him as
world ruler.
Does Mark 9:29 also show how God's servants receive
the necessary
power to cast out the demons? Is it by prayer AND
fasting?
COMMENT: Those who are truly converted --
surrendered to
God's will -- will keep the Day of Atonement, fasting
and meeting
with others of God's true Church if at all possible.
Those who refuse to keep this day, or who
carelessly keep it
in some manner other than God commanded, are not
converted and
will be "cut off" from among the people of God. Their
part is the
lake of fire WITH Satan. Those ready when Christ
returns will
enter the Kingdom -- the very Family -- of God. But
outside will
be darkness and weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matt.
22:11-13)
reserved for THOSE WHO KNOW their Master's will (Luke
12:46-48)
AND DO IT NOT!
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and around the world, many of you may be having
problems with your
arranged site, but I trust that God will work things
out so that you
can have THE BEST FEAST EVER this year as well!
You are welcome to send your FEAST REPORTS to this
publication. We are
a ministry, not a church, and so we welcome comments,
articles, letters,
etc. from the various Church of God groups scattered
all over the world.
I have desired to reintroduce our REal Audio
webcasting program. As some
of you know, I started an ambitious pilot program
this spring, but the
project was put on hold shortly afterwards. Why did
I do this?
Quite simply, the webcasting takes considerable time
and effort. I came
to see that it was senseless to do a webcast with the
rest of the website,
which is our support base, in disarray.
As some of you old timers know, we grew into a vast
website of thousands of
pages, starting small in 1997. But, in the last
several years, the page was
not updated often, we changed webhosting companies a
couple of times, and
the site went into total disrepair and decay, because
many of the links
didn't work, the site was poorly organized and
chaotic in places, and many
links were broken, articles missing, etc.
So it was with great reluctance earlier this year
that I decided that fixing
the old site was out of the question. It would be
just as easy to do a
whole new site, with a whole new look and a good
organizational structure
than to sit there and try and repair what we had on
the old site.
As a result, I tore down the old site completely, and
took everything offline
earlier this year, and began the painful process of
reconstruction.
It has been slow in coming at times. I put a lot of
work into setting
up the webcasts, but then I realized I had the same
problem HWA had in
the early years when he didn't have very many
booklets to offer. You
could have a great broadcast, and get people's
interest, but, without at
least a basic core of literature to follow up on it,
it is just spinning
one's wheels.
In other words, God led me to see that to do the
broadcasting before the
basics of the website were working was like putting
the cart before the
horse.
I have done a lot of work since then, and the library
section is slowly but
surely filling with needed material. As the Feast
Days have approached,
I wanted to at least do Cyber Services once more for
the Feast days, and was
actually making tentative plans to do just that.
Then, I realized that once again I was putting the
cart before the horse.
It would be a tremendous effort to produce webcasts
during the Feast days
and every day during the Feast of Tabernacles, and
the potential audience
is pretty small, as most people try to attend a live
Festival site. So,
I have decided to not start webcasting until shortly
AFTER the Feast, so
that I can use this precious time to get even more of
the basic site up
and running to support the Work that God has given
this ministry.
So, I am going to use this time to do even more work
on the website,
uploading much needed literature, so that by the time
the Feast is over,
we will be ready to hit the ground running as they say.
We live in a sick and dying world, and it desperately
needs to receive
the information and warnings that God has
commissioned all of us as
Christians to give. But we need to prepare for that
work in the
weeks ahead, so that when everyone is back from the
Feast, we will be
prepared to jump back into things in real earnest and
with vigor.
Our ministry is here to support local churches and
Christians. This
publication, the Restoration Times, is both a
supplier of meatier articles
and a news vehicle so that we all can communicate
better with each other.
Brethren, spiritually speaking, the Body of Christ is
not divided. From
Christ's perspective, we are all one Family and one
Church. Man is the
one who has created all kinds of artificial barriers
among us.
I know that many of us have some doctrinal
differences due to the splintering
of the corporate churches. It is my hope that
despite these differences,
the divisions can be healed, and we can at least
extend to each other the
right hand of fellowship.
The hour is indeed very late. Our churches have to
get their houses in
order at their local level, so that they can do the
job Christ has
commissioned them to do. This ministry is here to
help in any way that
we can. We are not here to point fingers, or put
anyone down. We are
here to promote unity among God's people. We have no
desire for political
control of anyone or any organization. We simply
want to serve as God
makes us able, with a witness to the world, and
helpful resources for the
church.
I will have much more to say on these topics in the
following months.
In the meantime, may God bless you and protect you
wherever you may
be in the upcoming Feast season.
And please remember us in your prayers and offerings!
In Jesus' Name,
M. John Allen, Pastor, Restoration Ministries
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