Every year at Halloween, well-meaning parents dress their children in grotesque and ghoulish costumes. Is Halloween really harmless? Who and what's behind this bizarre holiday?
Is Halloween Harmless?
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Which Day Is The Christian Sabbath?
Which Day Is the Christian Sabbath?
By Herbert W. Armstrong
Does it make any difference WHICH day we observe—or whether we keep it? Does the Bible establish SUNDAY as the LORD’S DAY? Was the Sabbath given for the Jewish people only—while Christians are commanded to keep SUNDAY as the LORD’S DAY?
Table of Contents
| Chapter 1 | But Does It Make Any Difference? |
| Chapter 2 | Who Made and Established the Sabbath? |
| Chapter 3 | God—Not Moses—Gave the Law |
| Chapter 4 | A Special Eternal Covenant |
| Chapter 5 | Which Day for Gentile Christians? |
| Chapter 6 | Why Israel and Judah Made Slaves |
| Chapter 7 | Is Sunday Mentioned in the New Testament? |
| Chapter 8 | The Amazing Truth About Christian Fellowship |
Remember the Sabbath
Did you ever stop to think why Christians keep Sunday? Did they get it from the Bible? Is there a clear-cut command that says, "Thou shalt keep Sunday?" Why did Jesus worship on Saturday? Was it only because He was a good Jew? Or does it go beyond that?
Ohio Mosque Promotes Murder!
One day -- I'll never forget it -- my former "Palestinian" student-neighbors purposely showed me a newsletter from the Islamic Center in Perrysburg, Ohio that had a story from the Haddith -- sayings attributed to Mohammad -- that spoke of a war in the last days between Jews and Muslims, and how Jews would hide behind trees and the trees would say, "There's a Jew behind me, kill him!" except for one tree that would shelter the Jews..
Monday, September 8, 2008
Africa is not for sissies
Anonymous has left a new comment on the post "Mandela - The Legend and the Legacy. Part 2":
hi
thank you for a very good read.I am a south african and it is nice to see someone else understanding it like i do because i was starting to think i was going mad. the problem is that because of all the past and present problems south Africa faces we ( White - South Africans) can no longer pack up and leave as many of us would like. no one will have us and because we are not "at war" we cannot even become refugees. in the last year Ive been mugged twice, my handbag was stolen on 2 separate occasions as well, and i am one of the lucky ones.
i would advise anyone thinking of coming here for the 2010 world cup to prepare mentally for it beforehand. don't be surprised if u get mugged, your room or is broken into, your luggage is stolen or you become involved in a accident because these happen on a daily basis. This is a beautiful country with lots of promise and potential, but shamefully this is all being washed down the drain. the ruling president of the ANC is currently up on fraud and corruption cases, he has 12 wives, and he slept with a woman with aids and explained he took a shower after to prevent getting aids himself. now i ask you if this is our next president, what type of a role model is he to the youth and what message does he send out to the rest of the world?Sadly things here will get much worst before they get any better. But as they say: "Africa is not for sissies"
thank you again
hi
thank you for a very good read.I am a south african and it is nice to see someone else understanding it like i do because i was starting to think i was going mad. the problem is that because of all the past and present problems south Africa faces we ( White - South Africans) can no longer pack up and leave as many of us would like. no one will have us and because we are not "at war" we cannot even become refugees. in the last year Ive been mugged twice, my handbag was stolen on 2 separate occasions as well, and i am one of the lucky ones.
i would advise anyone thinking of coming here for the 2010 world cup to prepare mentally for it beforehand. don't be surprised if u get mugged, your room or is broken into, your luggage is stolen or you become involved in a accident because these happen on a daily basis. This is a beautiful country with lots of promise and potential, but shamefully this is all being washed down the drain. the ruling president of the ANC is currently up on fraud and corruption cases, he has 12 wives, and he slept with a woman with aids and explained he took a shower after to prevent getting aids himself. now i ask you if this is our next president, what type of a role model is he to the youth and what message does he send out to the rest of the world?Sadly things here will get much worst before they get any better. But as they say: "Africa is not for sissies"
thank you again
Danger Lurks in America’s Backyard
American foreign policy is concentrated on the Middle East, the Caucasus and Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, a deadly threat lurks much closer to home.
Earlier this year I wrote about how Hugo Chavez had transformed Venezuela into a hub for international terrorist organizations of all shapes and sizes, their state sponsors, and participants in the black-market trade of nuclear materials and technology:
Mountains of evidence have arisen in recent years showing that South America is a hideout and breeding ground for the world’s most dangerous terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas. Pockets of South America—including areas in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, all of which have governments hostile to the U.S.—have become launching pads from which the world’s most venomous anti-American entities, particularly radical Islam, could strike the United States.
At the time, much of the evidence indicting Chavez was circumstantial, which is probably why the mainstream media and the American government hadn’t made a big story out of it. And as long as the media and the government weren’t reporting on it, it was easy for Americans to ignore or be dismissive of the threat.
That is beginning to change.
Over the past four months, more evidence has surfaced indicating danger is lurking in America’s backyard.
Notice what the Los Angeles Times reported last week (emphasis mine throughout):
Western anti-terrorism officials are increasingly concerned that Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Shiite Muslim militia that Washington has labeled a terrorist group, is using Venezuela as a base for operations. Linked to deadly attacks on Jewish targets in Argentina in the early 1990s, Hezbollah may be taking advantage of Venezuela’s ties with Iran, the militia’s longtime sponsor, to move “people and things” into the Americas, as one Western government terrorism expert put it.
How many Americans comprehend the significance of a radical Islamic terrorist group setting up camp in Venezuela?
Hezbollah is an appendage of Iran, which is bent on annihilating the United States. For years it’s been easy for Americans to downplay the Iranian threat. Surely Iran can’t be a big problem, we reason—it’s thousands of miles away. But that’s no longer true. Now even the mainstream media and the American government are talking more about Iran’s presence in America’s neighborhood.
Americans ought to be alarmed!
Iran and Hezbollah’s foothold in Venezuela is a result of the thriving friendship—bound by fervent anti-Americanism—between Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The two strongmen have visited with each other on multiple occasions in recent years and have struck several agreements and embarked on joint ventures, including projects in cement, automobile and tractor manufacturing. Additionally, Iran and Venezuela have created a $2 billion program to fund social projects in Latin America, including oil subsidies for Cuba and Nicaragua, which are designed to counter American efforts to secure support from allies in Latin America.
Hugo Chavez has welcomed Iran and its interests into the South American neighborhood with open arms, which has turned Venezuela into one of the Southern Hemisphere’s largest terrorist havens. Chavez, says Latin American current affairs analyst Vladimir Torres, has helped both Iran and radical Islam cut themselves a foothold in Venezuela and across the region. “Since March 2, 2007, Iran’s national airline, Iran Air, is flying on a weekly basis to Venezuela. The commercial Tehran-Caracas flight, with a stop in Damascus, Syria, allows for easy movement of passengers, given Venezuela’s lax immigration controls, the absence of visa requirements, and the reported ‘unofficial’ instruction to Venezuelan custom officers not to ask questions regarding whom and what comes and goes in the flight” (Sept. 26, 2007).
Despite intense efforts and hundreds of millions of dollars spent by Western nations on national security measures to curb the flow of Islamic terrorists, such individuals are traveling between Iran and Venezuela with ease.
The diplomatic relationship between Hezbollah and the Venezuelan government was exposed further earlier this summer when the U.S. Treasury Department froze the assets of two influential Venezuelan citizens after it accused them of being avid supporters of Hezbollah. The L.A. Times continued:
Treasury officials formally accused Ghazi Nasr al Din, a Venezuelan diplomat of Lebanese descent, of using posts at embassies in the Middle East to support financing for Hezbollah and “discuss operational issues with senior officials” of the militia. Nasr al Din “facilitated the travel” of Hezbollah members to and from Venezuela and to a “training course in Iran,” according to Treasury officials. The president of a Shiite Muslim center in Caracas, he served as a diplomat in Damascus and later in Beirut, authorities say.
The other Venezuelan identified by the U.S. Treasury Department was Fawzi Kanan, a Caracas-based travel agent, who allegedly made travel arrangements for Hezbollah terrorists and even discussed “possible kidnappings and terrorist attacks” with senior Hezbollah officials in Lebanon.
The findings of the Treasury Department this past June substantiate the earlier claims of Torres, who reported on the vast diplomatic connections between Iran and Hezbollah and the Venezuelan government in September 2007: “The Iranian embassies in some [South American] countries have increased their number of accredited diplomats to figures that seem out of proportion with their needs. The presence of more than 30 diplomats in Managua alone has already triggered suspicions regarding their mandate. There are substantiated reports of Hezbollah cells operating in Venezuela—particularly in Margarita Island, where real-estate businesses provide the cover for alleged drug-money laundering and fundraising for the terrorist organization” (op. cit.).
Jonathan Halevi, a counterterrorism expert from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, concurred with Torres in an article he co-wrote for Israel’s Ynetnews last month. “Iranian-Hezbollah footprints can be found in various African and South American countries,” he wrote on August 10. “In Venezuela and other South American countries Hezbollah has been waging a long-term campaign to convert the native Indians to Shiite Islam.” Halevi also cited an article from a Kuwaiti newspaper in June that reported that Hezbollah was training Venezuelans in military camps in south Lebanon to prepare them for attacking American targets.
Note that!
Hezbollah is training Venezuelans to attack American targets!
As proof of Hezbollah’s success in converting native Venezuelans to Islam, Halevi noted a recent claim by Teodoro Rafael Darnott, a Venezuelan convert. “If the United States were to attack Iran, the only country ruled by God,” stated Darnott, “we would counterattack in Latin America and even inside the United States itself. We have the means and we know how to go about it. We will sabotage the transportation of oil from Latin America to the U.S. You have been warned.”
Venezuela has clearly emerged as a strategic hub in Iran’s war against Israel and the United States!
Iran and Hezbollah’s operations in Venezuela were among the reasons the Israeli government cautioned its citizens in August that Hezbollah was planning to kidnap Israelis around the world. The L.A. Times confirmed Israel’s suspicions last week when, citing Western anti-terrorism officials, it reported that “agents of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah have allegedly set up a special force to attempt to kidnap Jewish businesspeople in Latin America and spirit them away to Lebanon …. Iranian and Hezbollah operatives traveling in and out of Venezuela have recruited Venezuelan informants working at the Caracas airport to gather intelligence on Jewish travelers as potential targets for abduction ….”
Today there’s little doubt in the minds of Western officials: Iran and Hezbollah are deeply rooted in Venezuela!
This ought to be alarming to the American people: One of their greatest enemies and its radical and dangerous proxies have moved into America’s backyard!
“Venezuela is known as a major transit hub [into America],” wrote Fred Burton from Stratfor, “and an entire industry has developed in Venezuela around the practice of illegal alien smuggling. There is an ‘underground railroad’ of sorts that begins in Caracas and stretches along various air, land and sea routes used to move migrants into the United States. This network consists of facilitators, document vendors, pilots, bus and truck drivers, sea captains, small hotels, money exchanges, restaurants and stores that all cater to illegal immigrants” (Dec. 13, 2006).
So Venezuela is not merely a hub and staging ground for international terrorist organizations, it has mastered the ability to smuggle illegals into America!
Next Thursday is the seven-year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, d.c. Watching those planes charge into buildings filled with human beings was a horrifying, bloodcurdling experience. That attack introduced the American people to the world of radical Islamic terrorism.
The terrorists who steered those planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon died. But the hatred that inspired them did not!
That hatred lives. And not just in the mountains of Pakistan or Afghanistan, or on the streets of Iraq and Israel. Reality is, while hatred for the United States exists in the minds of the mullahs and political leaders in faraway Tehran and Damascus, and among the Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists, those radicals live and are thriving in Venezuela and other nations in Latin America. Believe it or not, radical Islam lurks in America’s backyard! •
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What is British Israelism and is it Biblical?
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"Christian Identity" and such give a bad name to British-Israelites and Christianity, as liberal Jews do to Judaism and Catholics and Protestants do to Christianity.
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