Joseph Herrin (06-29-09)
I have continued to see many signs of the government setting in place all the apparatus to vaccinate the entire population of the United States, and these steps are being taken in other nations as well. Such steps are unprecedented, and there is certainly an evil agenda behind it.
Consider that sources independent of the government are reporting that the H1N1 virus is man-made. It contains strains of bird flu and swine flu viruses that have been intentionally mixed together. Earlier this year an independent lab testing some vaccine it received from Baxter International Inc. discovered that the vaccine had been contaminated with bird flu. This particular strain of bird flu has killed nearly two thirds of the people who have become infected with it.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aTo3LbhcA75I
The government would have their citizens entrust their lives to these big pharmaceutical corporations when their history of crippling, and even killing people is well known. Laws have recently been passed protecting these big pharmaceutical companies from lawsuit should their vaccines result in injury or death due to the government rushing them forward with inadequate testing. This is precisely the scenario being set in motion at this very hour.
The current swine flu pandemic that has drawn so much attention has had very little impact upon the populace, yet officials from the President on down, and all the news media outlets, have been giving it massive attention. Even though the number of people in America who have died of swine flu is miniscule with 127* deaths being reported among a population of 300 million (annually 36,000 die every year from normal flu strains), the government is preparing to vaccinate the entire population this fall.
*Note: The reporting of these numbers is likely exaggerated as most of the cases being counted as swine flu are said to be "similar" in symptoms. The symptoms are not much different than a bad cold. A news report this week states that there have "likely" been 1 million infections of swine flu so far in the nation. Such reports are guesswork, and words such as "likely" and "possibly" reveal that there is no hard evidence behind their claims. This is not to discount that more serious strains may be released upon the public in the future.
Recent history has shown that the vaccinations can do far more harm than the sickness itself, and the vaccination is not a cure, it is merely intended to lessen slightly the effects of the flu on a person’s body. In 1976 four men at Fort Dix military base became sick and were diagnosed as having contracted swine flu. It is well documented that the American government has often used the military as guinea pigs. Following is an excerpt from an article detailing just a few of the known ways in which the American government has sickened, injured and even killed members of the military for the sake of research.
VA Still Using War Veterans As Guinea Pigs
By Jon Christian Ryter
www.jonchristianryter.com/Root/main.html
June 30, 2008
The US government has a questionable history of using military personnel as guinea pigs to determine the potential health risks soldiers experience when they are exposed to caustic and sometimes deadly agents. During the period between the two world wars soldiers were deliberately exposed to mustard gas. Between 1945 to 1955 military personnel were exposed to radiation from nuclear bomb tests. In experiments conducted by the CIA and the US Army Biomedical Laboratory (under Project MKUltra), veterans were given the psychedelic drug Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, more commonly known as LSD. None of the military subjects given the drug consented to be guinea pigs, nor were any of them advised that LSD could cause long-term bizarre hallucinogenic psychoses. The experiments took place because the CIA and military intelligence believed LSD could be effective in interrogations and, the military believed, mind control. Some believed that LSD might lead to a cure for schizophrenia. When they realized LSD caused the problems they were trying to cure, the military moved on, leaving their victims to cope with the problems they induced.
In the 1960s and 1970s, military personnel in Vietnam were exposed to herbicides like Agent Orange. In the Gulf War US military personnel were tasked with the responsibility of burning up Saddam Hussein's recovered caches of chemical and biological weapons whenever and wherever they were found. The soldiers were not told that the weaponry they were destroying contained toxic chemicals and biological agents that could do serious harm to them if they breathed the toxic fumes. Confirmed by testimony from scores of military victims in sworn US Senate testimony in 2002, few if any of the military guinea pigs were informed of potential health risks from exposure or consumption of the chemical or biological agents. In fact, it is doubtful that the officers of these men even knew what it was they were destroying.
The worst experiment by the US government thus far exposed is reminiscent of the sadistic experiments performed by Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele at Auschwitz in 1942. In 1932 the US Public Health Service initiated a study known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. The subjects were uneducated black sharecroppers who contracted syphilis. When World War II broke out, all of the subjects were drafted into the army where they could be completely controlled by the Public Health Service. All of the subjects were denied any medical treatment for syphilis. They were simply told they had "bad blood" and there was nothing that could be done for them. The study tracked two generations of their families. Of the initial participants of the study, 28 died from syphilis and slightly more than 100 died from complications caused by syphilis. Forty wives and 19 children got the disease. And the US Public Health Service got reams of data about how syphilis progresses and how it passed from infected mothers to their offspring...
[Source: http://www.thenhf.com/articles/articles_735/articles_735.htm]
It immediately raises eyebrows when I read of the 1976 swine flu outbreak on a military base. How did the military so quickly identify swine flu as the culprit? Where was it contracted? It is well documented that the government, acting in concert with private labs, have developed strains of influenza to be used as weapons of mass destruction. These four infected servicemen served as the reason for President Gerald Ford to launch a nationwide vaccination program with the intent of vaccinating every man, woman and child in the United States. Following are examples of the propaganda employed by the government at the time to encourage people to take the vaccine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASibLqwVbsk
Forty million people had received the vaccine when problems with it became evident. One side effect of the vaccination is that it resulted in Guillain-Barré syndrome in a small percentage of the population. Officially 532 people were identified as having contracted it, and of these 25 died. All this was the result of taking a vaccine for an influenza virus that failed to spread among the population as it had been forecast.
What is unknown is how many other physical maladies are attributable to having taken the flu vaccine. America is a nation of sick and infirm people. In 2007 $2.6 trillion dollars was spent on healthcare in the United States, amounting to 15% of the entire Gross Domestic Product of the nation. Vaccines interfere with the bodies natural immune system, and it was this interference that resulted in the development of Guillain-Barré syndrome in 1976.
The Centers for Disease Control had set a goal of vaccinating 95% of the population in 1976, but after concerns became known about the harmful side effects of the vaccine the government was unable to get large numbers to submit to voluntary vaccination. In the end, less than a third of the country was vaccinated. There is much evidence that great effort is being taken to prevent a similar result this time around. The media is putting massive amounts of attention of this matter, building a mindset in the psyche of America that uses fear as a motivator, and which characterizes those who refuse the government’s health policies as selfish, uninformed, or religious or political radicals. Following is a clip from a recent episode of Law and Order SVU that is clearly intended to shape public opinion.
http://www.nbc.com/Law_&_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit/video/clips/selfish-428/1093054/
The name of the episode is “Selfish.” It is apparent that those who opt to not receive a vaccination will be vilified. The show also mentions quarantine as an alternative for those who refuse to receive vaccination, and the government has recently passed numerous laws and policies that will make this the law of the land.
In tangent with this we are seeing new legal precedence established as very prominent stories in the news that have bearing on these things are coming to the fore. Some may remember the story of the Neumann’s, a Christian family whose daughter died in a diabetic coma. They were charged with reckless endangerment for not taking their daughter to the doctor, and could face 25 years in prison. Despite what one believes about the decisions made by the parent’s in this case, and truly they have suffered much sorrow and loss, a precedent is being established where others can be faced with similar charges unless they allow the government and medical profession to determine all decisions relating to their health.
A quote from a New York Times article on this case includes the following statement:
Shawn Peters, the author of three books on religion and the law, including “When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children and the Law” (Oxford, 2007), said the outcome of the Neumann case was likely to set an important precedent.
[Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/us/21faith.html]
More recently we have observed the story of the Hauser family whose 13 year old son Daniel is suffering from a form of cancer called Hodgkins’ Lymphona. After the son became extremely ill following chemotherapy, the parents and their son chose to pursue alternative treatment methods. The physician reported the parents to the state and a judge ordered that the parents had to follow the physician’s prescribed medical plan and Daniel had to take chemotherapy.
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/06/23/hauser_chemo/
In response, the mother fled with her son, and a nationwide manhunt was launched with police across the nation on the look-out for this woman and her son. The mother eventually returned with her son, and was ordered by the court to submit to treatment, and the child was placed under the jurisdiction of Child Protective Services while being allowed to remain at home. The media has given considerable coverage to this story, while running leading articles that decry all forms of alternative medicine.
The minds of Americans are being shaped by these events. Laws are being altered and precedents established. FEMA is preparing containment camps on military bases to be used for national emergencies (H.R. 645), and there are few even in the church who are discerning the character of the days to come.
If you have not yet done so, I recommend reading the text of House Bill 645.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:h645:
There is much that is important in it. Note that it was the work of the 1st session of the 111th Congress and was set forth on 1-22-2009. These numbers are very significant and have been observed in great abundance recently as America reaches the end of her run as a nation of liberty and freedom. It is to be noted that Sonia Sotomayor, who has been put forth as a nominee for the vacant position on the Supreme Court, would be the 111th person to sit on the nation’s highest legal court. I also see symbolism in the strange occurrence of Sonia Sotomayor strumbling at LaGuardia airport on her way to meet with the President at the White House, fracturing her right ankle. The next week Hillary Clinton fell in the parking garage of the State Department and fractured her right elbow, requiring surgery. There are a lot of high officials favoring their left side these days.
In a recent audio message Nathan Leal spoke of the Father revealing to him things to come. He said Christians need to pray fervently that their children not be taken from them. There is certainly reason to be concerned about such matters as one observes all that is transpiring in America, and across the nations, at this time.
My intent is not to instill fear in the hearts of God’s people, but rather to alert them to the lateness of the hour. It is a time to walk soberly and to be seeking to know the will of the Father for our lives day by day that we might walk precisely as He directs us.
Ephesians 5:15-17
Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men, but as wise, making the most of your time, because the days are evil. So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
May you be blessed with peace and understanding in these days.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
How to Prepare for Calamitous Days
Joseph Herrin (06-26-09)
I have received correspondence from a number of individuals who lack the resources to make such preparations for coming days as I have described in a previous post. There are also those who find themselves yoked to a spouse who does not have the same understanding of the calamitous things which are drawing closer. Some have written to me to ask what they might do.
I want to share with you one particular letter that was written to a sister in Christ who wrote recently. I have omitted all personal references to her family for the sake of confidentiality. The message is relevant to all God's people, and I believe it is one that warrants sharing here.
Dear Sister,
I have received correspondence from a number of individuals who lack the resources to make such preparations for coming days as I have described in a previous post. There are also those who find themselves yoked to a spouse who does not have the same understanding of the calamitous things which are drawing closer. Some have written to me to ask what they might do.
I want to share with you one particular letter that was written to a sister in Christ who wrote recently. I have omitted all personal references to her family for the sake of confidentiality. The message is relevant to all God's people, and I believe it is one that warrants sharing here.
Dear Sister,
Thank you for writing. It is good to hear from you, even though the subject of your correspondence is a difficult one. I have heard from a number of women and men who are in similar situations as yourself. It is a great trial for a believer to discern that there are evil days ahead and desire to make some preparation while having a spouse that does not share the same understanding. Because each person is different, there is no particular instruction that can be given as advice to all who are in these circumstances.
In coming days we are going to find that many who have been first will be last, and many who have been last will be first. A couple of years ago I delivered a message titled Compassion's Silver Lining.
http://heart4god.ws/compassions%20silver%20lining.htm
In this message I spoke of one of the greatest things the people of God could do to prepare for coming days of distress, famine, poverty, homelessness and trial. I used a large number of Scriptures that reveal one of the surest ways to insure Yahweh's favor and provision in a day when we are ourselves in need. Following are a couple of the many Scriptures I cited.
Proverbs 22:9
In coming days we are going to find that many who have been first will be last, and many who have been last will be first. A couple of years ago I delivered a message titled Compassion's Silver Lining.
http://heart4god.ws/compassions%20silver%20lining.htm
In this message I spoke of one of the greatest things the people of God could do to prepare for coming days of distress, famine, poverty, homelessness and trial. I used a large number of Scriptures that reveal one of the surest ways to insure Yahweh's favor and provision in a day when we are ourselves in need. Following are a couple of the many Scriptures I cited.
Proverbs 22:9
He who is generous will be blessed, for he gives some of his food to the poor.
Ezekiel 16:49-51
"Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy. Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them when I saw it."
Sister, America is a land of great prosperity, even as Sodom and Gomorrah which lay in a fertile plain and had an abundance of all that the world offered. Yet these prosperous people did not use their abundance to help others. Instead they built themselves fine houses and filled them with luxurious furnishings. They spent their wealth on themselves, not considering that Yahweh had blessed them that they might be a blessing to others. There were needy in their communities, but they did not help them, for they thought only of self.
The church in America to a great extent has become as Sodom. Christ lived as a homeless man, and He went around doing good to others. Christ had compassion on the masses. He fed the poor. He bound up the sick, and He cared for those around Him. Christ did not seek out the houses of prosperity, but He worked among the poor and the rejected of society. There are few Christians today who have done likewise.
I once lived as the typical self-focused American Christian. I spent my money on self. I figured I earned it and I had a right to spend it upon my desires. As my income grew my standard of living increased. I bought larger homes and nicer vehicles. I had nicer furnishings, and this was the manner of my living. At the same time I believed I truly loved God.
On occasion I became aware of Scriptures that spoke of caring for the poor and needy, and I would be convicted that I was not doing so. I reasoned that I didn't personally know any people who were in such a condition, so I gave some money to the church that they might care for people in need, but it was always a pittance of my income that I gave. Sometime in the 1990's I became convicted of this matter again and I began praying fervently that the Father would order my life and direct my steps that I might be a channel of His love to others. I told Him that I did not know where, or how to give. I did not know whom I should help, and I needed God to direct my steps. This He did.
Interestingly, the Father's way of answering my prayer was to direct me in 1999 to quit my job as a computer professional. He then began to direct me down a course where I began to divest myself of the multitude of possessions I had gained. House and custom van and furnishings and a home filled with goods was disposed of. We then began to live much more simply. Yahweh also instructed me to look to Him for all of my provision and that of my wife and two children.
I had no savings and no church supporting me, and day by day we were looking to Yahweh to provide for us what we needed. We no longer lived the affluent lifestyle we once knew. Our food was much simpler, and although Yahweh always kept a roof over our heads, and provided beds to sleep in, and the necessities of life, we knew what it was to live with meager resources.
Philippians 4:11-13
Not that I speak from want; for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
By allowing me to experience these much more humble circumstances the Father taught me compassion for the needy. More recently the Father led me to live and work at a inner city Rescue Mission for over three years. Daily I was confronted with men who had been living on the street, who were hungry and needed clothing. I was in a position to help many of these men, and it was a joy to do so.
About a year ago the Father directed me to leave the mission and begin to write and teach again. At the same time He continued to give me opportunities to minister to those in need. He has brought men across my path who needed bus tickets, or food, or medicine, or clothing. Oftentimes I would give nearly my last dollar to someone whose need was more pressing than my own, but God would quickly replace anything I gave away. He has never forsaken me, and He is using me as a channel of blessing to the poor and needy on a regular basis. I wrote recently about being blessed to be able to purchase a bus for a widow and her mother. This took over half of the money I had on hand. I could have kept the money for a rainy day, or used it to rent a nice place to stay, or spent it selfishly as I once did, but Yahweh has made great changes in my life.
I have sensed a leading from the Father to share these things with you. As you are concerned about the care and provision of yourself and your family in coming days, these are the things our Father would have you to be mindful of. The Scriptures declare:
Proverbs 21:13
He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor will also cry himself and not be answered.
On the other hand, the Scriptures also give precious promises such as the following:
Proverbs 19:17
He who is gracious to a poor man lends to Yahweh, and He will repay him for his good deed.
It gives me great comfort to know that in coming days that I can look to Yahweh to provide for me. Because I have not shut my ears to the cry of the poor and needy, He will not shut His ears to my cry.
There are things people are doing in this present hour to prepare for coming days. Some are buying motorhomes and travel trailers. Some are moving out of the cities and finding a location in the country where they can plant a garden and have other provisions. Yet these things will avail them nothing if they have not also cared for those in need. Yahweh will make sure that their preparations fail them, or are given into the hands of others.
The surest thing a person can do in this hour is to open their hearts to those in need. True religion and undefiled is taking care of the widow and the orphan. It is feeding the hungry and clothing those who are in need. True religion that is acceptable before the Father is manifesting selfless compassion toward others, for all the Law and the prophets are summed up in the words, "You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself."
There are multitudes of Christians in this season who do not understand the judgment that is approaching ever closer. God's hand of judgment is upon many of them, keeping them blinded to what is ahead. Because they have lived selfishly, using their resources to satisfy themselves, build their own homes, and choose their own comforts and pleasures while neglecting the needs all around them, Yahweh is going to cast them into places of great need. Their money will fail. They will lose their homes, furnishings and many possessions that they might learn compassion. Sadly, in their poverty, many believers will only lament their pitiable condition rather than learning the lessons their Father would teach them. They will continue in their self-focus rather than becoming selfless, esteeming the needs of others more highly than their own.
I don't know to what degree that you and your husband have cared for the needs of others. As a man who was raised in American Christianity, I know it is rare for any believer to care for the needs of others to any remarkable degree. The influence of the prosperity gospel, and the selfish indulgence of the church, has led the vast majority to give stintingly to others while spending lavishly on self.
If you would seek to make some provision for your family, knowing that calamitous days are close at hand, then begin now to seek every possible opportunity to give to those in need. Do all that your husband will allow you to do. Encourage your children who are at home to do the same. If you have clothes you do not need, sell them and use the money to minister to someone in need, or give them to someone who could use them. If you have possessions that are unnecessary, do the same. Dig deep, and do not be afraid to give beyond what others deem reasonable, for it is God who is our judge, not mankind.
II Corinthians 9:6
Now this I say, he who sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully.
As your children are also encouraged to do the same, they too will be assured that Yahweh will notice, and He will repay in their time of need. On the other hand, how can those who have been careless about the needs of others reasonably expect that God will hear their own cry? By the judgment we judge others, we will be judged.
If you want an abundant, extraordinary provision from the Father in the days ahead, then be extravagant and exceedingly generous in your own giving now.
Proverbs 28:27
He who gives to the poor will never want, but he who shuts his eyes will have many curses.
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.
I suspect that those who have been the most selfish in their lives during a time of prosperity will experience the most severe distresses in the days ahead. Yet those who have been selfless, who have cared for the needs of others, will be greatly helped by Yahweh.
May you be blessed with peace and understanding in these days.
Ezekiel 16:49-51
"Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had arrogance, abundant food, and careless ease, but she did not help the poor and needy. Thus they were haughty and committed abominations before Me. Therefore I removed them when I saw it."
Sister, America is a land of great prosperity, even as Sodom and Gomorrah which lay in a fertile plain and had an abundance of all that the world offered. Yet these prosperous people did not use their abundance to help others. Instead they built themselves fine houses and filled them with luxurious furnishings. They spent their wealth on themselves, not considering that Yahweh had blessed them that they might be a blessing to others. There were needy in their communities, but they did not help them, for they thought only of self.
The church in America to a great extent has become as Sodom. Christ lived as a homeless man, and He went around doing good to others. Christ had compassion on the masses. He fed the poor. He bound up the sick, and He cared for those around Him. Christ did not seek out the houses of prosperity, but He worked among the poor and the rejected of society. There are few Christians today who have done likewise.
I once lived as the typical self-focused American Christian. I spent my money on self. I figured I earned it and I had a right to spend it upon my desires. As my income grew my standard of living increased. I bought larger homes and nicer vehicles. I had nicer furnishings, and this was the manner of my living. At the same time I believed I truly loved God.
On occasion I became aware of Scriptures that spoke of caring for the poor and needy, and I would be convicted that I was not doing so. I reasoned that I didn't personally know any people who were in such a condition, so I gave some money to the church that they might care for people in need, but it was always a pittance of my income that I gave. Sometime in the 1990's I became convicted of this matter again and I began praying fervently that the Father would order my life and direct my steps that I might be a channel of His love to others. I told Him that I did not know where, or how to give. I did not know whom I should help, and I needed God to direct my steps. This He did.
Interestingly, the Father's way of answering my prayer was to direct me in 1999 to quit my job as a computer professional. He then began to direct me down a course where I began to divest myself of the multitude of possessions I had gained. House and custom van and furnishings and a home filled with goods was disposed of. We then began to live much more simply. Yahweh also instructed me to look to Him for all of my provision and that of my wife and two children.
I had no savings and no church supporting me, and day by day we were looking to Yahweh to provide for us what we needed. We no longer lived the affluent lifestyle we once knew. Our food was much simpler, and although Yahweh always kept a roof over our heads, and provided beds to sleep in, and the necessities of life, we knew what it was to live with meager resources.
Philippians 4:11-13
Not that I speak from want; for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
By allowing me to experience these much more humble circumstances the Father taught me compassion for the needy. More recently the Father led me to live and work at a inner city Rescue Mission for over three years. Daily I was confronted with men who had been living on the street, who were hungry and needed clothing. I was in a position to help many of these men, and it was a joy to do so.
About a year ago the Father directed me to leave the mission and begin to write and teach again. At the same time He continued to give me opportunities to minister to those in need. He has brought men across my path who needed bus tickets, or food, or medicine, or clothing. Oftentimes I would give nearly my last dollar to someone whose need was more pressing than my own, but God would quickly replace anything I gave away. He has never forsaken me, and He is using me as a channel of blessing to the poor and needy on a regular basis. I wrote recently about being blessed to be able to purchase a bus for a widow and her mother. This took over half of the money I had on hand. I could have kept the money for a rainy day, or used it to rent a nice place to stay, or spent it selfishly as I once did, but Yahweh has made great changes in my life.
I have sensed a leading from the Father to share these things with you. As you are concerned about the care and provision of yourself and your family in coming days, these are the things our Father would have you to be mindful of. The Scriptures declare:
Proverbs 21:13
He who shuts his ear to the cry of the poor will also cry himself and not be answered.
On the other hand, the Scriptures also give precious promises such as the following:
Proverbs 19:17
He who is gracious to a poor man lends to Yahweh, and He will repay him for his good deed.
It gives me great comfort to know that in coming days that I can look to Yahweh to provide for me. Because I have not shut my ears to the cry of the poor and needy, He will not shut His ears to my cry.
There are things people are doing in this present hour to prepare for coming days. Some are buying motorhomes and travel trailers. Some are moving out of the cities and finding a location in the country where they can plant a garden and have other provisions. Yet these things will avail them nothing if they have not also cared for those in need. Yahweh will make sure that their preparations fail them, or are given into the hands of others.
The surest thing a person can do in this hour is to open their hearts to those in need. True religion and undefiled is taking care of the widow and the orphan. It is feeding the hungry and clothing those who are in need. True religion that is acceptable before the Father is manifesting selfless compassion toward others, for all the Law and the prophets are summed up in the words, "You shall love Yahweh your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself."
There are multitudes of Christians in this season who do not understand the judgment that is approaching ever closer. God's hand of judgment is upon many of them, keeping them blinded to what is ahead. Because they have lived selfishly, using their resources to satisfy themselves, build their own homes, and choose their own comforts and pleasures while neglecting the needs all around them, Yahweh is going to cast them into places of great need. Their money will fail. They will lose their homes, furnishings and many possessions that they might learn compassion. Sadly, in their poverty, many believers will only lament their pitiable condition rather than learning the lessons their Father would teach them. They will continue in their self-focus rather than becoming selfless, esteeming the needs of others more highly than their own.
I don't know to what degree that you and your husband have cared for the needs of others. As a man who was raised in American Christianity, I know it is rare for any believer to care for the needs of others to any remarkable degree. The influence of the prosperity gospel, and the selfish indulgence of the church, has led the vast majority to give stintingly to others while spending lavishly on self.
If you would seek to make some provision for your family, knowing that calamitous days are close at hand, then begin now to seek every possible opportunity to give to those in need. Do all that your husband will allow you to do. Encourage your children who are at home to do the same. If you have clothes you do not need, sell them and use the money to minister to someone in need, or give them to someone who could use them. If you have possessions that are unnecessary, do the same. Dig deep, and do not be afraid to give beyond what others deem reasonable, for it is God who is our judge, not mankind.
II Corinthians 9:6
Now this I say, he who sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully.
As your children are also encouraged to do the same, they too will be assured that Yahweh will notice, and He will repay in their time of need. On the other hand, how can those who have been careless about the needs of others reasonably expect that God will hear their own cry? By the judgment we judge others, we will be judged.
If you want an abundant, extraordinary provision from the Father in the days ahead, then be extravagant and exceedingly generous in your own giving now.
Proverbs 28:27
He who gives to the poor will never want, but he who shuts his eyes will have many curses.
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.
I suspect that those who have been the most selfish in their lives during a time of prosperity will experience the most severe distresses in the days ahead. Yet those who have been selfless, who have cared for the needs of others, will be greatly helped by Yahweh.
May you be blessed with peace and understanding in these days.
Heart4God Website: http://www.heart4god.ws
Parables Blog: http://www.parablesblog.blogspot.com
Mailing Address:
Joseph Herrin
P.O. Box 804
Montezuma, GA 31063
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Preparing the Ark
Joseph Herrin (06-24-09)
Some people have asked me to keep them updated on the physical aspects of the preparations the Father has been leading me to attend to. I would not argue against any who would suggest that spiritual preparation is more important than physical. Yet, if we simply obey the Spirit of Christ in all aspects of our lives (spiritual and physical), we will find ourselves in readiness to follow Him wherever He should direct us in the days ahead.
I have no doubt that the Spirit has been directing me to pay attention to physical preparations of late. He has greatly helped me to perform all things to which He has directed me. At times I wrestle with a desire to be writing more, and truly there is much to write about, but I am seeking that place of rest where I am led of the Spirit in all things.
The Scriptures declare to us that Noah was a righteous man, and he was a preacher of righteousness.
II Peter 2:4-5
For if God did not spare... the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness , with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly...
Preaching righteousness is a very important occupation, and I am sure Noah sought to warn the inhabitants of the world of the judgment that was coming. I can imagine Noah urging the people to put aside their carnal pursuits and to repent of sin, but to no avail. As important as this preaching was, Noah would have erred had he neglected to make the physical preparations the Spirit of Christ was directing him to perform. His physical preparations resulted in the continued life of all types of animals as well as mankind. Even so, we should not discount the importance of the physical activities that Yahweh directs us to. I will share with you here some of mine.
I have been working on a number of preparations for not only myself, but others. Let me begin by telling you about the camper/van Yahweh provided for me several years ago. I have a 1986 Xplorer XtraVan model 222. I purchased it for $800, and have been making repairs to it as the Lord directs and as He has manifested His provision to do so.
As you can see, I recently added an awning to the side of the van. Having done a good deal of camping, I can tell you that an awning is a great benefit. It gives you a place to sit out of the sun and rain, and a place to even set-up a camp stove and a picnic table. Awnings can be fairly expensive to purchase, so I constructed this one from a good quality tarp, a couple of poles and tent pegs, and some tarp clips that fasten it to the roof of my van. It only takes about 5 minutes to set-up, and I am pleased with the result.
The van has a 20 gallon water tank for drinking water, but I had never used it. The manual said that it should be flushed out with a bleach/water solution if it had not been used in a while. When I began to get it ready I found that the water pump that delivers water to the sink inside was no longer functioning. I purchased a replacement pump and also replaced some hoses, and the system now works wonderfully. Being able to carry 20 gallons of drinking water may not sound like much, but I can attest to the fact that it is a precious commodity when one is living in a primitive setting, as I once did when I spent two 40 day periods camping in the Oconee Forest of Georgia. 20 gallons of water will last me several weeks.
People learn quickly to conserve when needed resources are no longer abundantly available. When I stayed with Randy and Kathy Furman in the Arizona desert, where they must have water trucked in, I found an entirely different regard for the value of water than most Americans possess. When a person camps for extended periods of time they learn new ways of performing common tasks.
I have found that bathing as most do in the towns and cities, with full baths of water or running showers, is not practical while camping. I have purchased a plastic bottle with a spray top on it which can be filled with water. Add a wash cloth and a towel and you have all that is needed to bathe and feel refreshed. For those who dislike cold water, the bottle can be left in the vehicle’s window to allow the sun to warm it.
My van came equipped with a 40 pound propane cylinder that runs a two burner stove, a five gallon water heater, a furnace to heat the camper in winter, and can also be used to run the small refrigerator. I had never used the propane system since purchasing the van, so I tested it out, and made sure it was filled up (80% is the recommended level). I have found all to be in working order.
At times I have found myself camping off the grid where water and electrical is not available. The van has two DC batteries, one for the interior devices and one to run the engine. I added four 12 volt fans to the van. Two of them are up front to cool the driver and passenger (I have never used the dash air conditioner, and have not sensed a direction from the Father to get it working - it has some problems). I also added two small 12 volt fans over the sleeping area at the rear of the van. Having some air blowing makes a tremendous difference when trying to sleep at night in a hot climate such as we have in Georgia.
I anticipate using the fans and lights while off grid, so I have contemplated for some time a way to be able to charge the batteries. About a week ago I received a solar array that I have set-up to charge the vehicle's battery. This renewable energy source will allow me to have continuous energy available day and night to run lights, fans, a laptop, and to power or charge other small appliances. Below is a picture of the solar battery charger I purchased.
This model is the Sunforce 50044, and can be purchased from Amazon’s website for approximately $285.00. I think it will be quite adequate for my needs. Electricity is another thing people learn to conserve when it is in limited supply. It is not practical to run air conditioning off of a 12 volt RV system, so one adjusts to using fans instead. I have a couple of DC to AC inverters so I can even run a microwave oven for short periods if I desire. However, I am making preparation to cook with a different type of solar power.
The above picture is of a solar cooker made from an automotive window shade. The cooker will reach temperatures around 350 degrees. A black pot, a small bake grill and an oven cooking bag complete this very simple, yet functional outdoor cooker. There is no need for wood, charcoal, gas, or electricity. All one needs is sunshine. Food can be cooked and water purified with the use of this, or any other solar cooker. Following is a link to a page that contains many do-it-yourself plans to build a wide variety of solar cookers.
http://www.solarcooking.org/plans/
I like the solar cooker pictured above because it takes up so little space when being transported. Space is very limited in my camper/van, so I prefer designs that are space efficient. The solar panels I purchased to power my battery come with about 50 feet of electrical cord. This is ideal in that it allows me to park in the shade and set the panels up in the sun. I could mount the solar panels on the van roof, but then I would have to park in the Sun. Doing so would not be practical as the van heats up quickly.
I have finished all the things I have desired to do in making my own van ready, and I have been working on other people’s arks as well. The bus that was purchased for the sister in Christ who lives in another state is parked here in Georgia, and I have been doing a few things to get it ready for occupancy. It appears to be in good shape mechanically. It will crank right up and drive down the road. It needed a major cleaning, as well as some sanding and painting of rusty spots. Below are two pictures of the bus roof, before and after I painted it.
I love the luggage carrier on the roof. A lot of material could be stowed away up there. As you can see, it needed some paint.
More recently I have been working on a pop-up tent trailer for my daughter. The roof lift system needed some work, and I have added a propane cylinder to run the stove, and have made some other repairs and modifications. There are a few more things I would like to do to it, but it is livable at present and was a very good purchase by my daughter Kristin.
This is a picture of it on the property of the gentleman who has invited me to stay at his house when I am in the Macon area. It is a very beautiful setting, as he has 24 acres with a pond that is full of fish, and a very attractive yard. Below is an interior view of the camper.
I can see the Father ordering my steps to lead me to make these various preparations for myself and others. I do not know the precise character of coming days, what events will transpire, where people will live, or what their daily lives will be like. I try to stick to what I am confident of, and the Spirit has been testifying that great judgment is coming to the nation. The economy will soon collapse. The dollar will be worthless. There will be civil unrest, and the country will be divided. The Spirit is testifying that the horsemen of famine, plague, the sword and death have been loosed and will soon be found everywhere throughout the land of America, and in the nations of the world.
The arks that Yahweh is directing many of His children to prepare are similar in some ways to the ark of Noah, and different in others. These arks don’t float, for the judgment at hand is not a flood which will destroy the world. Yet the Spirit has been speaking through some that America will soon be a country of refugees, of the homeless and the dispossessed.
The things I have written of here and shown through pictures, reveal some of the preparations the Spirit has directed me to make. My friend Randy Simmons, who lives on the same property belonging to his grandfather, has also been making preparations. The Spirit of Christ directed him some weeks back to purchase a 32 foot motorhome. It is a 1982 model and needed a lot of work. Randy has made significant progress in getting it ready, seeking each day to do what he is able.
Randy’s Motorhome
Randy has had the gas tanks cleaned and sealed as they were rusty and the trash in the tanks was clogging the fuel lines. He has replaced the starter, spark plugs and wires, replaced the exhaust manifold gaskets, cleaned it inside and out, patched the roof, repaired the awning, gotten the generator in running shape, etc.. He still has much work to do, but if we simply do what we are able to do each day, Yahweh will have us ready for those things that lie ahead.
Randy and I have talked about why God has chosen this particular path for us. Since Yahweh is omnipotent and has all the wealth of the Universe, He could simply have provided new motorhomes for all of His children. Yet He has not chosen to do so. The challenges and tasks we face are perfectly designed for each one of God’s children. He seeks to perfect us, forming in us His character. We need patience, self-control, peace, hope, perseverance, and a host of other things which are of great value in our Father’s sight.
Yahweh could make our way easier, but our comfort is not what is foremost in His mind. America and the church in it provide ample evidence that material abundance, ease and comfort do not produce sons and daughters in the image of Christ. If the Son of God learned obedience by the things He suffered, then so must we. Our Father in heaven chose to have His firstborn Son live as a homeless wanderer upon the earth. Many days He knew hunger, thirst and fatigue. These things tried Him even as they do us, yet He always walked in victory. He never gave into complaint, or murmuring about the life conditions His Father had chosen for Him.
Certainly God could have done better than having His son born in a manger, living as a homeless man, crucified between two thieves, and buried in another man’s tomb. Yahweh could have done better for the Israelites in the wilderness. They complained at the trials they had to face. The wilderness was barren and bleak. Their food was monotonous, manna and water day after day. They remembered the green Nile delta and the fertile ground. They missed the leeks, onions, garlic, melons, fish and quail. Their focus was upon self rather than upon fulfilling the pleasure of God, and they gave themselves to complaint. Their response was not acceptable in the sight of Yahweh, therefore an entire generation died in the wilderness.
What response will Yahweh find in our hearts as we face similar trials? Will we respond as Christ, or as those who perished? Will we be more concerned with our comfort and satisfying our flesh, or with pleasing our Father in heaven.
You can be sure that all of God’s people will be tried in many ways in the days ahead. It is the Father’s desire that He have many sons and daughters who share the character of Christ. He is ever laboring until Christ be fully formed in us. This character is only tested and perfected through trials. The days ahead are therefore a manifestation of the mercy and kind intention of our Father. He will subject His children to trials that they might be purged, purified and refined. In the end He will have a people for His praise.
Heart4God Website: http://www.heart4god.ws
Parables Blog: http://www.parablesblog.blogspot.com
Mailing Address:
Joseph Herrin
P.O. Box 804
Montezuma, GA 31063
Some people have asked me to keep them updated on the physical aspects of the preparations the Father has been leading me to attend to. I would not argue against any who would suggest that spiritual preparation is more important than physical. Yet, if we simply obey the Spirit of Christ in all aspects of our lives (spiritual and physical), we will find ourselves in readiness to follow Him wherever He should direct us in the days ahead.
I have no doubt that the Spirit has been directing me to pay attention to physical preparations of late. He has greatly helped me to perform all things to which He has directed me. At times I wrestle with a desire to be writing more, and truly there is much to write about, but I am seeking that place of rest where I am led of the Spirit in all things.
The Scriptures declare to us that Noah was a righteous man, and he was a preacher of righteousness.
II Peter 2:4-5
For if God did not spare... the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness , with seven others, when He brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly...
Preaching righteousness is a very important occupation, and I am sure Noah sought to warn the inhabitants of the world of the judgment that was coming. I can imagine Noah urging the people to put aside their carnal pursuits and to repent of sin, but to no avail. As important as this preaching was, Noah would have erred had he neglected to make the physical preparations the Spirit of Christ was directing him to perform. His physical preparations resulted in the continued life of all types of animals as well as mankind. Even so, we should not discount the importance of the physical activities that Yahweh directs us to. I will share with you here some of mine.
I have been working on a number of preparations for not only myself, but others. Let me begin by telling you about the camper/van Yahweh provided for me several years ago. I have a 1986 Xplorer XtraVan model 222. I purchased it for $800, and have been making repairs to it as the Lord directs and as He has manifested His provision to do so.
As you can see, I recently added an awning to the side of the van. Having done a good deal of camping, I can tell you that an awning is a great benefit. It gives you a place to sit out of the sun and rain, and a place to even set-up a camp stove and a picnic table. Awnings can be fairly expensive to purchase, so I constructed this one from a good quality tarp, a couple of poles and tent pegs, and some tarp clips that fasten it to the roof of my van. It only takes about 5 minutes to set-up, and I am pleased with the result.
The van has a 20 gallon water tank for drinking water, but I had never used it. The manual said that it should be flushed out with a bleach/water solution if it had not been used in a while. When I began to get it ready I found that the water pump that delivers water to the sink inside was no longer functioning. I purchased a replacement pump and also replaced some hoses, and the system now works wonderfully. Being able to carry 20 gallons of drinking water may not sound like much, but I can attest to the fact that it is a precious commodity when one is living in a primitive setting, as I once did when I spent two 40 day periods camping in the Oconee Forest of Georgia. 20 gallons of water will last me several weeks.
People learn quickly to conserve when needed resources are no longer abundantly available. When I stayed with Randy and Kathy Furman in the Arizona desert, where they must have water trucked in, I found an entirely different regard for the value of water than most Americans possess. When a person camps for extended periods of time they learn new ways of performing common tasks.
I have found that bathing as most do in the towns and cities, with full baths of water or running showers, is not practical while camping. I have purchased a plastic bottle with a spray top on it which can be filled with water. Add a wash cloth and a towel and you have all that is needed to bathe and feel refreshed. For those who dislike cold water, the bottle can be left in the vehicle’s window to allow the sun to warm it.
My van came equipped with a 40 pound propane cylinder that runs a two burner stove, a five gallon water heater, a furnace to heat the camper in winter, and can also be used to run the small refrigerator. I had never used the propane system since purchasing the van, so I tested it out, and made sure it was filled up (80% is the recommended level). I have found all to be in working order.
At times I have found myself camping off the grid where water and electrical is not available. The van has two DC batteries, one for the interior devices and one to run the engine. I added four 12 volt fans to the van. Two of them are up front to cool the driver and passenger (I have never used the dash air conditioner, and have not sensed a direction from the Father to get it working - it has some problems). I also added two small 12 volt fans over the sleeping area at the rear of the van. Having some air blowing makes a tremendous difference when trying to sleep at night in a hot climate such as we have in Georgia.
I anticipate using the fans and lights while off grid, so I have contemplated for some time a way to be able to charge the batteries. About a week ago I received a solar array that I have set-up to charge the vehicle's battery. This renewable energy source will allow me to have continuous energy available day and night to run lights, fans, a laptop, and to power or charge other small appliances. Below is a picture of the solar battery charger I purchased.
This model is the Sunforce 50044, and can be purchased from Amazon’s website for approximately $285.00. I think it will be quite adequate for my needs. Electricity is another thing people learn to conserve when it is in limited supply. It is not practical to run air conditioning off of a 12 volt RV system, so one adjusts to using fans instead. I have a couple of DC to AC inverters so I can even run a microwave oven for short periods if I desire. However, I am making preparation to cook with a different type of solar power.
The above picture is of a solar cooker made from an automotive window shade. The cooker will reach temperatures around 350 degrees. A black pot, a small bake grill and an oven cooking bag complete this very simple, yet functional outdoor cooker. There is no need for wood, charcoal, gas, or electricity. All one needs is sunshine. Food can be cooked and water purified with the use of this, or any other solar cooker. Following is a link to a page that contains many do-it-yourself plans to build a wide variety of solar cookers.
http://www.solarcooking.org/plans/
I like the solar cooker pictured above because it takes up so little space when being transported. Space is very limited in my camper/van, so I prefer designs that are space efficient. The solar panels I purchased to power my battery come with about 50 feet of electrical cord. This is ideal in that it allows me to park in the shade and set the panels up in the sun. I could mount the solar panels on the van roof, but then I would have to park in the Sun. Doing so would not be practical as the van heats up quickly.
I have finished all the things I have desired to do in making my own van ready, and I have been working on other people’s arks as well. The bus that was purchased for the sister in Christ who lives in another state is parked here in Georgia, and I have been doing a few things to get it ready for occupancy. It appears to be in good shape mechanically. It will crank right up and drive down the road. It needed a major cleaning, as well as some sanding and painting of rusty spots. Below are two pictures of the bus roof, before and after I painted it.
I love the luggage carrier on the roof. A lot of material could be stowed away up there. As you can see, it needed some paint.
More recently I have been working on a pop-up tent trailer for my daughter. The roof lift system needed some work, and I have added a propane cylinder to run the stove, and have made some other repairs and modifications. There are a few more things I would like to do to it, but it is livable at present and was a very good purchase by my daughter Kristin.
This is a picture of it on the property of the gentleman who has invited me to stay at his house when I am in the Macon area. It is a very beautiful setting, as he has 24 acres with a pond that is full of fish, and a very attractive yard. Below is an interior view of the camper.
I can see the Father ordering my steps to lead me to make these various preparations for myself and others. I do not know the precise character of coming days, what events will transpire, where people will live, or what their daily lives will be like. I try to stick to what I am confident of, and the Spirit has been testifying that great judgment is coming to the nation. The economy will soon collapse. The dollar will be worthless. There will be civil unrest, and the country will be divided. The Spirit is testifying that the horsemen of famine, plague, the sword and death have been loosed and will soon be found everywhere throughout the land of America, and in the nations of the world.
The arks that Yahweh is directing many of His children to prepare are similar in some ways to the ark of Noah, and different in others. These arks don’t float, for the judgment at hand is not a flood which will destroy the world. Yet the Spirit has been speaking through some that America will soon be a country of refugees, of the homeless and the dispossessed.
The things I have written of here and shown through pictures, reveal some of the preparations the Spirit has directed me to make. My friend Randy Simmons, who lives on the same property belonging to his grandfather, has also been making preparations. The Spirit of Christ directed him some weeks back to purchase a 32 foot motorhome. It is a 1982 model and needed a lot of work. Randy has made significant progress in getting it ready, seeking each day to do what he is able.
Randy’s Motorhome
Randy has had the gas tanks cleaned and sealed as they were rusty and the trash in the tanks was clogging the fuel lines. He has replaced the starter, spark plugs and wires, replaced the exhaust manifold gaskets, cleaned it inside and out, patched the roof, repaired the awning, gotten the generator in running shape, etc.. He still has much work to do, but if we simply do what we are able to do each day, Yahweh will have us ready for those things that lie ahead.
Randy and I have talked about why God has chosen this particular path for us. Since Yahweh is omnipotent and has all the wealth of the Universe, He could simply have provided new motorhomes for all of His children. Yet He has not chosen to do so. The challenges and tasks we face are perfectly designed for each one of God’s children. He seeks to perfect us, forming in us His character. We need patience, self-control, peace, hope, perseverance, and a host of other things which are of great value in our Father’s sight.
Yahweh could make our way easier, but our comfort is not what is foremost in His mind. America and the church in it provide ample evidence that material abundance, ease and comfort do not produce sons and daughters in the image of Christ. If the Son of God learned obedience by the things He suffered, then so must we. Our Father in heaven chose to have His firstborn Son live as a homeless wanderer upon the earth. Many days He knew hunger, thirst and fatigue. These things tried Him even as they do us, yet He always walked in victory. He never gave into complaint, or murmuring about the life conditions His Father had chosen for Him.
Certainly God could have done better than having His son born in a manger, living as a homeless man, crucified between two thieves, and buried in another man’s tomb. Yahweh could have done better for the Israelites in the wilderness. They complained at the trials they had to face. The wilderness was barren and bleak. Their food was monotonous, manna and water day after day. They remembered the green Nile delta and the fertile ground. They missed the leeks, onions, garlic, melons, fish and quail. Their focus was upon self rather than upon fulfilling the pleasure of God, and they gave themselves to complaint. Their response was not acceptable in the sight of Yahweh, therefore an entire generation died in the wilderness.
What response will Yahweh find in our hearts as we face similar trials? Will we respond as Christ, or as those who perished? Will we be more concerned with our comfort and satisfying our flesh, or with pleasing our Father in heaven.
You can be sure that all of God’s people will be tried in many ways in the days ahead. It is the Father’s desire that He have many sons and daughters who share the character of Christ. He is ever laboring until Christ be fully formed in us. This character is only tested and perfected through trials. The days ahead are therefore a manifestation of the mercy and kind intention of our Father. He will subject His children to trials that they might be purged, purified and refined. In the end He will have a people for His praise.
Heart4God Website: http://www.heart4god.ws
Parables Blog: http://www.parablesblog.blogspot.com
Mailing Address:
Joseph Herrin
P.O. Box 804
Montezuma, GA 31063
Friday, June 19, 2009
Some words
Following are a few things sent to me recently. The first is a quote from Austin Sparks from 40-50 years ago.
[Begin Quote]
Perhaps one of the things which you and I and the Lord’s people everywhere need to recognise more than anything else at an end time is the fact of our heavenliness. There is going to be a testing of everything which bears the Lord’s name by the law of the beginning governing the end. In the beginning they were a heavenly people, with everything for them in heaven, in Christ, and being drawn from Christ in heaven. All their government, direction, resource came from Him and was in Him as in heaven. The Lord comes back again and again to test things by that beginning, and in the end the test is going to be applied very stringently. We are going to see the outward form of things, which is earthly, man-made, man-constituted, an imitation or a representation of spiritual things, breaking down, shaking at its very foundations. All the organizations of our work are going to be shattered. In the nations all that framework will be broken up. That which alone will be left will be the people themselves, and they will probably be scattered. Then the test will be as to how much of this is Christ here. If there has been dependence upon orders, churches, systems, even meetings and conferences, the many things which in themselves are looked to as the means of support of the Christian life, when they are gone, broken, the question will be, How much of Christ is here? What is the measure of Christ, the heavenly Christ?
You see how that was the crisis for the disciples. They had three years with Him, but there was an outward detachment, an outward dependence, a physical, sentient association. In those days they could say some very bold things, they could make great confessions and professions, they could declare themselves as to Him, Who He was, what they thought of Him, what they believed concerning Him, what they would do for Him. Then He was taken from them, and what was left? No Christ, no life, nothing to live for, everything gone! When the life of senses ceased, the outward order came to an end, they had nothing left, they were in despair, their faith was shattered.
There is much of that today. We do not know how much there is until the break comes, until we are no longer able to do anything for the Lord, until we are no longer able even to pray and read the Word of God, and carry on the usual devotional exercises, until we are no longer able to meet with the Lord’s people. Multitudes of the Lord’s people are coming there now. Over wide stretches of the earth the people of God are being driven, scattered, having everything outward taken. The question is: Why does the Lord allow it? Why is it so, if the Lord is wise, and almighty, and gracious? It is to discover how much the Heavenly Christ is to His people, and how much they depend upon the earthly order of things, even the Christian order.
“That which was from the beginning... Little children, it is the last hour... the one who does the will of God lives for ever”. Do you see the link? If at the end, at the last hour, it is as it was from the beginning, then it will abide for ever, but if it has become something else, it will go. This whole question of heavenly relationship with the Lord is a tremendously searching one, the fact that Christ has transferred everything to heaven and that nothing less than a life in heavenly union with Him will stand the test at any time.
[End Quote]
Next is a link to a video that is very sobering when one considers the ramifications of what is occurring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXlxBeAvsB8
The next news article is equally sobering.
http://homelandsecurityus.com/?p=2863
My guess is that there are hundreds of billions of dollars of behind-the-scenes financial deals going on as the nations of the world are seeking to hold their financial systems together with baling wire. It will all soon collapse, and a New World Currency will be set forth controlled by a central banking conglomerate and we will see the rise of the New World Order.
The hour is truly late.
Heart4God Website: http://www.heart4god.ws
Parables Blog: http://www.parablesblog.blogspot.com
Mailing Address:
Joseph Herrin
P.O. Box 804
Montezuma, GA 31063
[Begin Quote]
Perhaps one of the things which you and I and the Lord’s people everywhere need to recognise more than anything else at an end time is the fact of our heavenliness. There is going to be a testing of everything which bears the Lord’s name by the law of the beginning governing the end. In the beginning they were a heavenly people, with everything for them in heaven, in Christ, and being drawn from Christ in heaven. All their government, direction, resource came from Him and was in Him as in heaven. The Lord comes back again and again to test things by that beginning, and in the end the test is going to be applied very stringently. We are going to see the outward form of things, which is earthly, man-made, man-constituted, an imitation or a representation of spiritual things, breaking down, shaking at its very foundations. All the organizations of our work are going to be shattered. In the nations all that framework will be broken up. That which alone will be left will be the people themselves, and they will probably be scattered. Then the test will be as to how much of this is Christ here. If there has been dependence upon orders, churches, systems, even meetings and conferences, the many things which in themselves are looked to as the means of support of the Christian life, when they are gone, broken, the question will be, How much of Christ is here? What is the measure of Christ, the heavenly Christ?
You see how that was the crisis for the disciples. They had three years with Him, but there was an outward detachment, an outward dependence, a physical, sentient association. In those days they could say some very bold things, they could make great confessions and professions, they could declare themselves as to Him, Who He was, what they thought of Him, what they believed concerning Him, what they would do for Him. Then He was taken from them, and what was left? No Christ, no life, nothing to live for, everything gone! When the life of senses ceased, the outward order came to an end, they had nothing left, they were in despair, their faith was shattered.
There is much of that today. We do not know how much there is until the break comes, until we are no longer able to do anything for the Lord, until we are no longer able even to pray and read the Word of God, and carry on the usual devotional exercises, until we are no longer able to meet with the Lord’s people. Multitudes of the Lord’s people are coming there now. Over wide stretches of the earth the people of God are being driven, scattered, having everything outward taken. The question is: Why does the Lord allow it? Why is it so, if the Lord is wise, and almighty, and gracious? It is to discover how much the Heavenly Christ is to His people, and how much they depend upon the earthly order of things, even the Christian order.
“That which was from the beginning... Little children, it is the last hour... the one who does the will of God lives for ever”. Do you see the link? If at the end, at the last hour, it is as it was from the beginning, then it will abide for ever, but if it has become something else, it will go. This whole question of heavenly relationship with the Lord is a tremendously searching one, the fact that Christ has transferred everything to heaven and that nothing less than a life in heavenly union with Him will stand the test at any time.
[End Quote]
Next is a link to a video that is very sobering when one considers the ramifications of what is occurring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXlxBeAvsB8
The next news article is equally sobering.
http://homelandsecurityus.com/?p=2863
My guess is that there are hundreds of billions of dollars of behind-the-scenes financial deals going on as the nations of the world are seeking to hold their financial systems together with baling wire. It will all soon collapse, and a New World Currency will be set forth controlled by a central banking conglomerate and we will see the rise of the New World Order.
The hour is truly late.
Heart4God Website: http://www.heart4god.ws
Parables Blog: http://www.parablesblog.blogspot.com
Mailing Address:
Joseph Herrin
P.O. Box 804
Montezuma, GA 31063
Thursday, June 18, 2009
To the Angel of the Mormon Church...
Joseph Herrin (06-18-09)
Angel Moroni atop a Mormon Temple
A recent new article reported the following:
New Mormon temple's angel struck by lightning
Associated Press - June 15, 2009 6:44 PM ET
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah (AP) - Mother Nature left her mark on a new Mormon temple over the weekend when a lightning strike hit the building, blackening the golden angel that tops it.
The 60,000 square-foot Oquirrh Mountain Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was hit Saturday during a rain storm.
Church spokeswoman Kim Farah says no structural damage resulted from the strike on the Angel Moroni. She says a crew will re-gild the 10-foot-6-inch statue soon.
Most Mormon temples are topped with a statue of the angel, who Mormons believe led church founder Joseph Smith to the golden plates from which the Book of Mormon originated.
The Oquirrh temple is Utah's 13th and the 130th church temple worldwide. It will open in late August and will serve an estimated 83,000 Latter-day Saints.
[End Article]
You will note the prominence of the number 13 in this event. The Oquirrh Temple is Utah’s 13th Mormon Temple and the 130th Worldwide. The angel was struck by lightning on June 13th. Below is a picture of the Oquirrh Mountain Temple.
Oquirrh Mountain Mormon Temple
The main construction of the temple is complete, and it is open for the public to view this month, but dedication services and actual use of the Temple are not scheduled until August.
Beyond doubt there is a profound message in this event. The statue of the angel Moroni being struck by lightning and his image tarnished, requiring that it be re-gilded, can only be viewed as an act of divine judgment. We can understand more clearly the reason for the judgment when we understand the significance God attaches to the number thirteen. E.W. Bullinger, in his book Number in Scripture shares the following information.
As to the significance of thirteen, all are aware that it has come down to us as a number of ill-omen. Many superstitions cluster around it, and various explanations are current concerning them.
Unfortunately, those who go backwards to find a reason seldom go back far enough. The popular explanations do not, so far as we are aware, go further back than the Apostles. But we must go back to the first occurrence of the number thirteen in order to discover the key to its significance. It occurs first in Gen 14:4, where we read "Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and the thirteenth year they REBELLED."
Hence every occurrence of the number thirteen, and likewise of every multiple of it, stamps that with which it stands in connection with rebellion, apostasy, defection, corruption, disintegration, revolution, or some kindred idea...
But it is when we come to GEMATRIA that the most wonderful results are seen. These results may be stated thus, briefly: That the names of the LORD's people are multiples of eight, while the names of those who apostatized, or rebelled, or who were in any sense His enemies, are multiples of thirteen... No human foresight or arrangement could have secured such a result beforehand; no human powers could have carried it out in such perfection. No matter where we look, we find the working of the law without cessation, without a break, without a flaw from beginning to end. Only one conclusion is possible, and that is that the Bible has but one Author, an eternal, omniscient Author, designing, superintending, working, and carrying out His own infinite plans.
[Source: http://philologos.org/__eb-nis/eight.htm#205]
The number thirteen is considered an evil omen, a sign of some future evil which is to befall a person or group. The Scriptures associate this number with rebellion and apostasy. Apostasy is defined as a divorce or defection from the truth. We see also that the number thirteen is related to defection and corruption, and truly when Joseph Smith introduced the Book of Mormon to the world in 1830 he led many people into apostasy. These first Mormon disciples met in Freemason’s Lodges in Illinois, which were dubbed Mormon Lodges, and the influence of the Luciferian Freemasonry is observed in their doctrines and practices to this day.
http://www.heart4god.ws/id551.htm
Joseph Smith claimed to have been guided to the golden plates upon which were written the words of the Book of Mormon, by the angel Moroni. Joseph Smith described Moroni as “an angel of light.” Concerning Joseph Smith, the founder and an early apostle of the Mormon Church, and the angel Moroni, the apostle Paul has something to say.
II Corinthians 11:13-15
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their deeds.
The judgment of God is apparent in the event that occurred on June 13th. This golden angel which was shining brilliantly in the Sun was blackened by a lightning strike. Yahweh has removed the disguise placed upon this angel, revealing its true nature as a messenger of darkness, of apostasy, corruption and rebellion.
Some have concluded that Joseph Smith’s fabrication of the angel Moroni came from his familiarity with the adventures of Captain Kidd.
Some scholars have theorized that Smith became familiar with the name "Moroni" through his study of the treasure-hunting stories of Captain William Kidd. Because Kidd was said to have buried treasure in the Comoros islands, and Moroni is the name of the capital city and largest settlement in the Comoros, it has been suggested that Smith borrowed the name of the settlement and applied it to the angel who led him to buried treasure—the golden plates. Complementing this proposal is the theory that Smith borrowed the names of the Comoros islands and applied them to the hill where he found the golden plates, which he named Cumorah.
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Moroni]
I have some correspondence with people who have joined themselves to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (The Mormon Church). I am persuaded that some of the people of God are found in this church. I also believe the Spirit is testifying to them through this sign that an evil judgment must soon befall all those who have joined themselves to the confusion of Babylon. If the people of God would not share in the punishment coming upon all manifestations of Babylon, they must swiftly come out from among her.
Revelation 18:4-5
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, that you may not participate in her sins and that you may not receive of her plagues; for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.”
This event brings to mind a Scriptural association that is made between fallen angels and lightning.
Luke 10:18
And He said to them, "I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning.”
The hour is very late. The consequences of remaining in Babylon when the Spirit of Christ is calling His people to come out, will be swift and severe. Let those with understanding hear the voice of the Spirit of Christ and obey.
Heart4God Website: http://www.heart4god.ws
Parables Blog: http://www.parablesblog.blogspot.com
Mailing Address:
Joseph Herrin
P.O. Box 804
Montezuma, GA 31063
Angel Moroni atop a Mormon Temple
A recent new article reported the following:
New Mormon temple's angel struck by lightning
Associated Press - June 15, 2009 6:44 PM ET
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah (AP) - Mother Nature left her mark on a new Mormon temple over the weekend when a lightning strike hit the building, blackening the golden angel that tops it.
The 60,000 square-foot Oquirrh Mountain Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was hit Saturday during a rain storm.
Church spokeswoman Kim Farah says no structural damage resulted from the strike on the Angel Moroni. She says a crew will re-gild the 10-foot-6-inch statue soon.
Most Mormon temples are topped with a statue of the angel, who Mormons believe led church founder Joseph Smith to the golden plates from which the Book of Mormon originated.
The Oquirrh temple is Utah's 13th and the 130th church temple worldwide. It will open in late August and will serve an estimated 83,000 Latter-day Saints.
[End Article]
You will note the prominence of the number 13 in this event. The Oquirrh Temple is Utah’s 13th Mormon Temple and the 130th Worldwide. The angel was struck by lightning on June 13th. Below is a picture of the Oquirrh Mountain Temple.
Oquirrh Mountain Mormon Temple
The main construction of the temple is complete, and it is open for the public to view this month, but dedication services and actual use of the Temple are not scheduled until August.
Beyond doubt there is a profound message in this event. The statue of the angel Moroni being struck by lightning and his image tarnished, requiring that it be re-gilded, can only be viewed as an act of divine judgment. We can understand more clearly the reason for the judgment when we understand the significance God attaches to the number thirteen. E.W. Bullinger, in his book Number in Scripture shares the following information.
As to the significance of thirteen, all are aware that it has come down to us as a number of ill-omen. Many superstitions cluster around it, and various explanations are current concerning them.
Unfortunately, those who go backwards to find a reason seldom go back far enough. The popular explanations do not, so far as we are aware, go further back than the Apostles. But we must go back to the first occurrence of the number thirteen in order to discover the key to its significance. It occurs first in Gen 14:4, where we read "Twelve years they served Chedorlaomer, and the thirteenth year they REBELLED."
Hence every occurrence of the number thirteen, and likewise of every multiple of it, stamps that with which it stands in connection with rebellion, apostasy, defection, corruption, disintegration, revolution, or some kindred idea...
But it is when we come to GEMATRIA that the most wonderful results are seen. These results may be stated thus, briefly: That the names of the LORD's people are multiples of eight, while the names of those who apostatized, or rebelled, or who were in any sense His enemies, are multiples of thirteen... No human foresight or arrangement could have secured such a result beforehand; no human powers could have carried it out in such perfection. No matter where we look, we find the working of the law without cessation, without a break, without a flaw from beginning to end. Only one conclusion is possible, and that is that the Bible has but one Author, an eternal, omniscient Author, designing, superintending, working, and carrying out His own infinite plans.
[Source: http://philologos.org/__eb-nis/eight.htm#205]
The number thirteen is considered an evil omen, a sign of some future evil which is to befall a person or group. The Scriptures associate this number with rebellion and apostasy. Apostasy is defined as a divorce or defection from the truth. We see also that the number thirteen is related to defection and corruption, and truly when Joseph Smith introduced the Book of Mormon to the world in 1830 he led many people into apostasy. These first Mormon disciples met in Freemason’s Lodges in Illinois, which were dubbed Mormon Lodges, and the influence of the Luciferian Freemasonry is observed in their doctrines and practices to this day.
http://www.heart4god.ws/id551.htm
Joseph Smith claimed to have been guided to the golden plates upon which were written the words of the Book of Mormon, by the angel Moroni. Joseph Smith described Moroni as “an angel of light.” Concerning Joseph Smith, the founder and an early apostle of the Mormon Church, and the angel Moroni, the apostle Paul has something to say.
II Corinthians 11:13-15
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their deeds.
The judgment of God is apparent in the event that occurred on June 13th. This golden angel which was shining brilliantly in the Sun was blackened by a lightning strike. Yahweh has removed the disguise placed upon this angel, revealing its true nature as a messenger of darkness, of apostasy, corruption and rebellion.
Some have concluded that Joseph Smith’s fabrication of the angel Moroni came from his familiarity with the adventures of Captain Kidd.
Some scholars have theorized that Smith became familiar with the name "Moroni" through his study of the treasure-hunting stories of Captain William Kidd. Because Kidd was said to have buried treasure in the Comoros islands, and Moroni is the name of the capital city and largest settlement in the Comoros, it has been suggested that Smith borrowed the name of the settlement and applied it to the angel who led him to buried treasure—the golden plates. Complementing this proposal is the theory that Smith borrowed the names of the Comoros islands and applied them to the hill where he found the golden plates, which he named Cumorah.
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Moroni]
I have some correspondence with people who have joined themselves to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (The Mormon Church). I am persuaded that some of the people of God are found in this church. I also believe the Spirit is testifying to them through this sign that an evil judgment must soon befall all those who have joined themselves to the confusion of Babylon. If the people of God would not share in the punishment coming upon all manifestations of Babylon, they must swiftly come out from among her.
Revelation 18:4-5
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, that you may not participate in her sins and that you may not receive of her plagues; for her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.”
This event brings to mind a Scriptural association that is made between fallen angels and lightning.
Luke 10:18
And He said to them, "I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning.”
The hour is very late. The consequences of remaining in Babylon when the Spirit of Christ is calling His people to come out, will be swift and severe. Let those with understanding hear the voice of the Spirit of Christ and obey.
Heart4God Website: http://www.heart4god.ws
Parables Blog: http://www.parablesblog.blogspot.com
Mailing Address:
Joseph Herrin
P.O. Box 804
Montezuma, GA 31063
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Preparing to Poison the Populace
Joseph Herrin (06-17-09)
The Swine Flu (Flew)
It is not difficult to identify trends once one has their eyes opened to look for the signs along the trail. Most fail to see the signs, for they are masterfully covered up and when they are discovered they are reinterpreted by men skilled in deceit so that the mass of mankind will not recognize what it occurring. The disciples of Christ are admonished with the following words:
Matthew 10:16-17
"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; therefore be shrewd as serpents , and innocent as doves. But beware of men...”
This past week I was reading a book that contained some writings by and about the early church fathers, many of whom died as martyrs. One story recounted the tale of a young man who wished to have the praise of his fellow saints. The martyrs were highly regarded by the church, and this man therefore determined to present himself to the government voluntarily. He urged several others to join in surrendering to the government and be brought into the arena, but when the moment arrived and he was faced with a cruel death, great fear gripped him. This young man proved to be as Peter who boasted to Christ of his loyalty, but later denied the Lord.
The church father’s commented on this event that it was not their policy to encourage any of the saints to voluntarily place themselves in situations where their faith will be tried. They advocated instead that the saint should seek to avoid such trials, while looking to God to provide them with the faith and courage necessary when the trials should be unavoidable.
Without doubt, all men are to seek the will of the Lord in all things, and we see that even Christ Himself did not tempt the Father by placing Himself unnecessarily in harm’s way. Neither did He shrink back when He knew the hour of His suffering had come. There are lessons to be learned from His own example, and that of the apostles.
Yahshua spoke to His disciples the following:
Matthew 10:22-23
“And you will be hated by all on account of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved. But whenever they persecute you in this city, flee to the next...”
Christ Himself practiced this principle, ever being sensitive to the leading of the Spirit of His Father.
Matthew 4:12
Now when He heard that John had been taken into custody, He withdrew into Galilee...
Matthew 12:14-15
The Pharisees went out, and counseled together against Him, as to how they might destroy Him. But Yahshua, aware of this, withdrew from there.
John 7:1-2
And after these things Yahshua was walking in Galilee; for He was unwilling to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill Him.
Christ was never directed by the emotions and thoughts of His own soul. He was completely submitted to the Spirit in all things. It was wisdom and the will of His Father that Yahshua distance Himself from those who were seeking His harm. The hour came, however, when in the Garden of Gethsemane the Father revealed that it was time to drink from the cup of suffering and no longer hide Himself from those who were seeking to arrest Him. As an obedient Son, He surrendered to the will of His Father.
It is the will of the Father that His people be equally yielded to His will regarding the days that are approaching and the persecution that is at hand. Many evil men will be granted authority for a season to perpetrate great acts of harm and suffering upon the population. Those who are led of the Spirit will know how and where to avoid such evil plans of men. Yet the day will come when many of the people of God will also be presented a cup of suffering to drink from, and they will be granted the honor of laying down their very lives in honor of the Son of God.
Yahweh would not have His people to flee from possible danger out of some soulish terror. Christ withdrew from places where men were seeking to harm Him, and He would not reveal Himself openly, but He was never walking in fear or being driven by the threats of others. He was walking by the Spirit. He had confidence that no man could touch Him until the hour appointed by His Father, and this faith allowed Him to remain in peace and to walk as David, who said, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.”
I am convinced that the Lord is revealing to His people some of the plans of evil men in this hour that they might avoid the harm that some would seek to inflict upon them. Yet His desire is not that we respond in fear, but that we walk in faith as we are led by the Spirit.
I will share some signs of a particular plan of evil men that are evident at this hour in order that the people of God might avoid unnecessary suffering in coming days.
If you have not already read the post titled Herding Swine into the Arms of the Beast System - Part Two and Part Three, I encourage you to do so.
http://parablesblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/herding-swine-part-2.html
http://parablesblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/herding-swine-part-3.html
More information has come to my attention since writing these posts, and I want to share some further thoughts on this matter. The government of the United States, as well as those of other nations, is moving forward with plans to vaccinate the population. The following is from an Associated Press article posted yesterday.
AP Interview: Kids may get swine flu shots first
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
WASHINGTON (AP) — Schoolchildren could be first in line for swine flu vaccine this fall — and schools are being put on notice that they might even be turned into shot clinics.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday she is urging school superintendents around the country to spend the summer preparing for that possibility, if the government goes ahead with mass vaccinations.
"If you think about vaccinating kids, schools are the logical place," Sebelius told The Associated Press.
No decision has been made yet on whether and how to vaccinate millions of Americans against the new flu strain that the World Health Organization last week formally dubbed a pandemic, meaning it now is circulating the globe unchecked. But the U.S. is pouring money into development of a vaccine in anticipation of giving at least some people the shots...
Sebelius soon will call together the nation's governors to be sure "these months between now and the fall aren't used as vacation months" but in getting ready.
[Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hbs-FO8lE3ZraaOV7CtTQuSuaVigD98S0U402]
I have noted an emphasis recently in the Associated Press to downplay the benefits of natural remedies, vitamins, herbs, and therapies, while leading people to place their confidence in the pharmaceutical companies and the medical profession. The Associated Press last week printed a series which was given premium placement in thousands of newspapers and online sources. It was titled Alternative Medicine Goes Mainstream. There is a clearly identifiable agenda behind those things being published.
Alternative medicine goes mainstream
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP Medical Writer
BALTIMORE (AP) -- At one of the nation's top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient's bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. Another woman rubs a quartz bowl with a wand, making tunes that mix with the beeping monitors and hissing respirator keeping the man alive.
They are doing Reiki therapy, which claims to heal through invisible energy fields. The anesthesia chief, Dr. Richard Dutton, calls it "mystical mumbo jumbo." Still, he's a fan...
Alternative medicine has become mainstream...
People turn to unconventional therapies and herbal remedies for everything from hot flashes and trouble sleeping to cancer and heart disease. They crave more "care" in their health care. They distrust drug companies and the government. They want natural, safer remedies.
But often, that is not what they get. Government actions and powerful interest groups have left consumers vulnerable to flawed products and misleading marketing.
Dietary supplements do not have to be proved safe or effective before they can be sold. Some contain natural things you might not want, such as lead and arsenic. Some interfere with other things you may be taking, such as birth control pills.
"Herbals are medicines," with good and bad effects, said Bruce Silverglade of the consumer group Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Contrary to their little-guy image, many of these products are made by big businesses. Ingredients and their countries of origin are a mystery to consumers. They are marketed in ways that manipulate emotions, just like ads for hot cars and cool clothes. Some make claims that average people can't parse as proof of effectiveness or blather, like "restores cell-to-cell communication."
Even therapies that may help certain conditions, such as acupuncture, are being touted for uses beyond their evidence.
An Associated Press review of dozens of studies and interviews with more than 100 sources found an underground medical system operating in plain sight, with a different standard than the rest of medical care, and millions of people using it on blind faith.
How did things get this way?
Fifteen years ago, Congress decided to allow dietary and herbal supplements to be sold without federal Food and Drug Administration approval. The number of products soared, from about 4,000 then to well over 40,000 now.
Ten years ago, Congress created a new federal agency to study supplements and unconventional therapies. But more than $2.5 billion of tax-financed research has not found any cures or major treatment advances, aside from certain uses for acupuncture and ginger for chemotherapy-related nausea. If anything, evidence has mounted that many of these pills and therapies lack value...
[Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/08/AR2009060800537.html]
The article is clearly slanted against any treatments that are not part of the pharmaceutical/medical profession panoply of offerings. The author begins by speaking of a very bizarre treatment, reiki therapy, which actually is derived from wicca, or modern day witchcraft. Linking such a bizarre spiritualistic treatment to more orthodox herbs and vitamins creates a very negative association in the minds of those reading.
There is also a great lack of integrity in the reporting. It was stated of the alternative therapies, “They are marketed in ways that manipulate emotions, just like ads for hot cars and cool clothes. Some make claims that average people can't parse as proof of effectiveness or blather, like "restores cell-to-cell communication." Has the writer of this series not watched a television commercial, or seen a magazine ad for the pharmaceutical pill of the hour. Such words are hypocrisy. Can you imagine the Associated Press publishing a series exposing the gross fraud, the millions of injured and dead, and the unscrupulous conduct of the pharmaceutical industry?
It is the agenda behind all these things that should not escape your notice. The Associated Press is under the control of the same mind that steers the pharmaceutical companies and the governments of this fallen world. All are working in harmony to bring about an evil plan that most certainly could be described in the words of Christ, “The thief comes only to kill, and steal and destroy” (John 10:10).
As judgment upon the nations, and upon the disobedience of His own people, Yahweh has given them into the hands of wicked men who will cause them great harm.
Ezekiel 21:31
I shall blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and I shall give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled in destruction.
The plans of evil men and fallen angels will wreak much destruction in this hour, but God will shelter His people who fear Him. He is revealing to them the plans of the enemy that they might avoid the snare that so many will mindlessly rush into. The public psyche is being prepared even now to accept the mass vaccinations that have until now been voluntary, but will soon be mandated.
It is not by chance that a flu that has had so little impact upon the world has garnered such an unprecedented amount of media coverage. Nor is it by chance that so many preparations have been made in recent years and months to prepare for an unprecedented response to a global flu pandemic. The Global Research website reports the following:
The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREPA) slipped under the radar when George Bush signed it into law as part of the 2006 Defense Appropriations Act (HR 2863). It lets the HHS Secretary declare any disease an epidemic or national emergency requiring mandatory vaccinations.
At least one other measure is also worrisome - The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA)...
On its web site, the ACLU says this about MSEHPA:
It's "written in a way that doesn't adequately protect citizens against the misuse of the tremendous powers that it would grant in an emergency. (It's) replete with civil liberties problems. Its three top flaws are that:
(1) It fails to include basic checks and balances (by) grant(ing) extraordinary emergency powers (that) should never go unchecked. (It) could have serious consequences for individuals' freedom, privacy, and equality."
(2) "It goes well beyond bioterrorism (with) an overbroad definition of 'public health emergency" that may be anything a local or national authority declares for any reason with no conclusive evidence for proof.
(3) "It lacks privacy protections (and) undercut(s) existing protections for sensitive medical information..."
Massachusetts May Be A Forerunner of What's to Come
On April 28, the Massachusetts Senate unanimously passed a pandemic flu preparation bill that rises to the level of martial law. If approved by the House and signed into law, it will mandate among other measures:
-- "vaccination, treatment, examination, or testing of" all individuals involved in providing health care - as perhaps step one before ordering the same process for all state residents;
-- owners or occupiers of all premises "to permit entry into and investigation of the premises;"
-- closure, evacuation, and decontamination of all suspected facilities; and
-- restricting or prohibiting "assemblages of persons."
Adverse Vaccination Effects on Gulf War Troops
Before deploying to the Persian Gulf in 1990 - 91 (and thereafter to the present), all US troops got a standard series of inoculations against infectious diseases - the same ones given to all US citizens traveling to the region. After arriving, 150,000 also got anthrax vaccinations and 8000 botulinum toxoid ones even though concerns were raised about adverse long-term health consequences...
Gary Matsumoto is a New York-based award-winning investigative journalist. His 2004 book, "Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That's Killing Our Soldiers and Why GIs are Only the First Victims" took sharp issue with... the Pentagon's denial of Gulf War syndrome.
Investigating the shadowy vaccination development world, he discovered US military-employed doctors and scientists conducted secret medical experiments on US citizens in violation of the Nuremberg Code and fundamental medical ethics...
Since at least 1987, biowarfare development trumped the welfare of tens of thousands of GIs used as human guinea pigs for inoculation with experimental unlicensed anthrax vaccines containing squalene - an oil-based adjuvant (to enhance immunity) known for decades to cause severe autoimmune diseases in lab animals, yet administered involuntarily without disclosure of its harmful effects to human health. Matsumoto wrote:
"The unethical experiments detailed in this book are ongoing, with little prospect of being self-limiting because they have been shielded from scrutiny and public accountability by national security concerns." He suggested the "writing (was) on the wall" of what's to come with prospects now it may be soon...
Other research shows that squalene is the experimental anthrax vaccine ingredient that caused devastating autoimmune diseases and deaths for many Gulf War veterans from the US, UK, and Australia, yet it continues in use today and for new vaccines development in labs. There's a "close match between the squalene-induced diseases in animals and those observed in humans injected with this oil: rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus."
Other autoimmune diseases are also linked to humans injected with squalene. "There are now data in more than two dozen peer-reviewed scientific papers, from ten different laboratories in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia, documenting that squalene-based adjuvants can induce autoimmune diseases in animals...observed in mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits...
Micropaleontologist Dr. Viera Scheibner conducted research into the adverse effects of adjuvants in vaccines and wrote:
Squalene "contributed to the cascade of reactions called "Gulf War syndrome. (GIs developed) arthritis, fibromyalgia, lymphadenopathy, rashes, photosensitive rashes, malar rashes, chronic fatigue, chronic headaches, abnormal body hair loss, non-healing skin lesions, aphthous ulcers, dizziness, weakness, memory loss, seizures, mood changes, neuropsychiatric problems, anti-thyroid effects, anaemia, elevated ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation rate), systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, ALS, Raynaud's phenomenon, Sjorgren's syndrome, chronic diarrhea, night sweats and low-grade fever."
Matsumoto's book includes numerous case studies of GIs afflicted with one or more of the above syndromes, their devastating effects, and the outlandish US government reaction - failing to acknowledge their existence or a connection between them and administered vaccines...
If mass vaccinations are ordered, millions of Americans may ask: Why do you keep using unsafe vaccines and other drugs when clear evidence shows their dangers? Why do you jeopardize all Americans by unleashing a future plague of serious illnesses, diseases, and disabilities? Why have you willfully and maliciously ruined my health?...
According to Matsumoto, today, "Squalene adjuvants are a key ingredient in a whole new generation of vaccines intended for mass immunization around the globe" even though researchers at Tulane Medical School and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research proved "that the immune system responds specifically to the squalene molecule."
The immune system "see(s) and recognizes it as an oil molecule native to the body. Squalene is not just a molecule found in a knee or elbow - it is found throughout the nervous system and the brain." When injected in the body, the immune system attacks it as an enemy to be eliminated. Eating and digesting squalene isn't a problem. But injecting it "galvanize(s) the immune system into attacking it, which can produce self-destructive cross reactions against the same molecule in the places where it occurs naturally in the body - and where it is critical to the health of the nervous system."
Once self-destruction begins, it doesn't stop as the body keeps making the molecule that the immune system is trained to attack and destroy...
Disturbingly, "Many of the cutting-edge vaccines currently in development by the NIH and its corporate partners contain squalene in one formulation or another. There is squalene in the prototype recombinant vaccines for HIV, malaria, herpes, influenza (including the swine strain), cytomegalovirus and human papillomavirus." Some of these "are intended for mass immunization(s) around the globe" and that possibility should terrify everyone enough to refuse any mandate or doctor's prescription to take them...
[Source: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13859]
The Associated Press article that criticized alternative remedies stated in criticism of them, “Some contain natural things you might not want, such as lead and arsenic.” This is once more hypocrisy, for pharmaceutical companies knowingly and deliberately add such poisons to their products. Both squalene and mercury are added to flu vaccines, and it is appearing ever more likely that flu vaccines will be mandated in the near future.
There is a reason that the government has passed the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, which shields pharmaceutical companies from financial and criminal responsibility of any adverse affects arising from their vaccines. Great harm will result among the population who receives them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Readiness_and_Emergency_Preparedness_Act
If one intended to kill off large numbers of the population by plague and disease, it seems a good place to begin would be by vaccinating all men, women and children with drugs that will decrease the effectiveness of the body’s auto-immune system. The population would then be ripe for any subsequent plague that will be unleashed upon them.
That multitudes will be killed by diseases in the last days is testified in Scripture.
Revelation 6:8
And I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. And authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.
The population goals of the New World Order have been made public through numerous means. The Georgia Guidestones declare that they have set a goal of a world population of 500 million people. This means that nearly 6 billion people would have to be eradicated from the earth.
Ted Turner and Henry Kissinger are just a couple of men who have made statements openly in support of a radical reduction of the world’s population. Their thoughts on the subject can easily be discovered by doing a search on their names and the words “world population.” They certainly are proponents of a Malthusian doctrine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthus
Such ones will readily incite, create and promote wars, famines, and diseases in order to reduce the world population to a level they find suitable to their personal goals. They seek to appear as apostles of righteousness, but their actions reveal them to be children of Satan who was a murderer from the beginning.
John 8:44
"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning...”
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The Swine Flu (Flew)
It is not difficult to identify trends once one has their eyes opened to look for the signs along the trail. Most fail to see the signs, for they are masterfully covered up and when they are discovered they are reinterpreted by men skilled in deceit so that the mass of mankind will not recognize what it occurring. The disciples of Christ are admonished with the following words:
Matthew 10:16-17
"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; therefore be shrewd as serpents , and innocent as doves. But beware of men...”
This past week I was reading a book that contained some writings by and about the early church fathers, many of whom died as martyrs. One story recounted the tale of a young man who wished to have the praise of his fellow saints. The martyrs were highly regarded by the church, and this man therefore determined to present himself to the government voluntarily. He urged several others to join in surrendering to the government and be brought into the arena, but when the moment arrived and he was faced with a cruel death, great fear gripped him. This young man proved to be as Peter who boasted to Christ of his loyalty, but later denied the Lord.
The church father’s commented on this event that it was not their policy to encourage any of the saints to voluntarily place themselves in situations where their faith will be tried. They advocated instead that the saint should seek to avoid such trials, while looking to God to provide them with the faith and courage necessary when the trials should be unavoidable.
Without doubt, all men are to seek the will of the Lord in all things, and we see that even Christ Himself did not tempt the Father by placing Himself unnecessarily in harm’s way. Neither did He shrink back when He knew the hour of His suffering had come. There are lessons to be learned from His own example, and that of the apostles.
Yahshua spoke to His disciples the following:
Matthew 10:22-23
“And you will be hated by all on account of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved. But whenever they persecute you in this city, flee to the next...”
Christ Himself practiced this principle, ever being sensitive to the leading of the Spirit of His Father.
Matthew 4:12
Now when He heard that John had been taken into custody, He withdrew into Galilee...
Matthew 12:14-15
The Pharisees went out, and counseled together against Him, as to how they might destroy Him. But Yahshua, aware of this, withdrew from there.
John 7:1-2
And after these things Yahshua was walking in Galilee; for He was unwilling to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill Him.
Christ was never directed by the emotions and thoughts of His own soul. He was completely submitted to the Spirit in all things. It was wisdom and the will of His Father that Yahshua distance Himself from those who were seeking His harm. The hour came, however, when in the Garden of Gethsemane the Father revealed that it was time to drink from the cup of suffering and no longer hide Himself from those who were seeking to arrest Him. As an obedient Son, He surrendered to the will of His Father.
It is the will of the Father that His people be equally yielded to His will regarding the days that are approaching and the persecution that is at hand. Many evil men will be granted authority for a season to perpetrate great acts of harm and suffering upon the population. Those who are led of the Spirit will know how and where to avoid such evil plans of men. Yet the day will come when many of the people of God will also be presented a cup of suffering to drink from, and they will be granted the honor of laying down their very lives in honor of the Son of God.
Yahweh would not have His people to flee from possible danger out of some soulish terror. Christ withdrew from places where men were seeking to harm Him, and He would not reveal Himself openly, but He was never walking in fear or being driven by the threats of others. He was walking by the Spirit. He had confidence that no man could touch Him until the hour appointed by His Father, and this faith allowed Him to remain in peace and to walk as David, who said, “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me.”
I am convinced that the Lord is revealing to His people some of the plans of evil men in this hour that they might avoid the harm that some would seek to inflict upon them. Yet His desire is not that we respond in fear, but that we walk in faith as we are led by the Spirit.
I will share some signs of a particular plan of evil men that are evident at this hour in order that the people of God might avoid unnecessary suffering in coming days.
If you have not already read the post titled Herding Swine into the Arms of the Beast System - Part Two and Part Three, I encourage you to do so.
http://parablesblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/herding-swine-part-2.html
http://parablesblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/herding-swine-part-3.html
More information has come to my attention since writing these posts, and I want to share some further thoughts on this matter. The government of the United States, as well as those of other nations, is moving forward with plans to vaccinate the population. The following is from an Associated Press article posted yesterday.
AP Interview: Kids may get swine flu shots first
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
WASHINGTON (AP) — Schoolchildren could be first in line for swine flu vaccine this fall — and schools are being put on notice that they might even be turned into shot clinics.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Tuesday she is urging school superintendents around the country to spend the summer preparing for that possibility, if the government goes ahead with mass vaccinations.
"If you think about vaccinating kids, schools are the logical place," Sebelius told The Associated Press.
No decision has been made yet on whether and how to vaccinate millions of Americans against the new flu strain that the World Health Organization last week formally dubbed a pandemic, meaning it now is circulating the globe unchecked. But the U.S. is pouring money into development of a vaccine in anticipation of giving at least some people the shots...
Sebelius soon will call together the nation's governors to be sure "these months between now and the fall aren't used as vacation months" but in getting ready.
[Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hbs-FO8lE3ZraaOV7CtTQuSuaVigD98S0U402]
I have noted an emphasis recently in the Associated Press to downplay the benefits of natural remedies, vitamins, herbs, and therapies, while leading people to place their confidence in the pharmaceutical companies and the medical profession. The Associated Press last week printed a series which was given premium placement in thousands of newspapers and online sources. It was titled Alternative Medicine Goes Mainstream. There is a clearly identifiable agenda behind those things being published.
Alternative medicine goes mainstream
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE
AP Medical Writer
BALTIMORE (AP) -- At one of the nation's top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient's bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. Another woman rubs a quartz bowl with a wand, making tunes that mix with the beeping monitors and hissing respirator keeping the man alive.
They are doing Reiki therapy, which claims to heal through invisible energy fields. The anesthesia chief, Dr. Richard Dutton, calls it "mystical mumbo jumbo." Still, he's a fan...
Alternative medicine has become mainstream...
People turn to unconventional therapies and herbal remedies for everything from hot flashes and trouble sleeping to cancer and heart disease. They crave more "care" in their health care. They distrust drug companies and the government. They want natural, safer remedies.
But often, that is not what they get. Government actions and powerful interest groups have left consumers vulnerable to flawed products and misleading marketing.
Dietary supplements do not have to be proved safe or effective before they can be sold. Some contain natural things you might not want, such as lead and arsenic. Some interfere with other things you may be taking, such as birth control pills.
"Herbals are medicines," with good and bad effects, said Bruce Silverglade of the consumer group Center for Science in the Public Interest.
Contrary to their little-guy image, many of these products are made by big businesses. Ingredients and their countries of origin are a mystery to consumers. They are marketed in ways that manipulate emotions, just like ads for hot cars and cool clothes. Some make claims that average people can't parse as proof of effectiveness or blather, like "restores cell-to-cell communication."
Even therapies that may help certain conditions, such as acupuncture, are being touted for uses beyond their evidence.
An Associated Press review of dozens of studies and interviews with more than 100 sources found an underground medical system operating in plain sight, with a different standard than the rest of medical care, and millions of people using it on blind faith.
How did things get this way?
Fifteen years ago, Congress decided to allow dietary and herbal supplements to be sold without federal Food and Drug Administration approval. The number of products soared, from about 4,000 then to well over 40,000 now.
Ten years ago, Congress created a new federal agency to study supplements and unconventional therapies. But more than $2.5 billion of tax-financed research has not found any cures or major treatment advances, aside from certain uses for acupuncture and ginger for chemotherapy-related nausea. If anything, evidence has mounted that many of these pills and therapies lack value...
[Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/08/AR2009060800537.html]
The article is clearly slanted against any treatments that are not part of the pharmaceutical/medical profession panoply of offerings. The author begins by speaking of a very bizarre treatment, reiki therapy, which actually is derived from wicca, or modern day witchcraft. Linking such a bizarre spiritualistic treatment to more orthodox herbs and vitamins creates a very negative association in the minds of those reading.
There is also a great lack of integrity in the reporting. It was stated of the alternative therapies, “They are marketed in ways that manipulate emotions, just like ads for hot cars and cool clothes. Some make claims that average people can't parse as proof of effectiveness or blather, like "restores cell-to-cell communication." Has the writer of this series not watched a television commercial, or seen a magazine ad for the pharmaceutical pill of the hour. Such words are hypocrisy. Can you imagine the Associated Press publishing a series exposing the gross fraud, the millions of injured and dead, and the unscrupulous conduct of the pharmaceutical industry?
It is the agenda behind all these things that should not escape your notice. The Associated Press is under the control of the same mind that steers the pharmaceutical companies and the governments of this fallen world. All are working in harmony to bring about an evil plan that most certainly could be described in the words of Christ, “The thief comes only to kill, and steal and destroy” (John 10:10).
As judgment upon the nations, and upon the disobedience of His own people, Yahweh has given them into the hands of wicked men who will cause them great harm.
Ezekiel 21:31
I shall blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and I shall give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled in destruction.
The plans of evil men and fallen angels will wreak much destruction in this hour, but God will shelter His people who fear Him. He is revealing to them the plans of the enemy that they might avoid the snare that so many will mindlessly rush into. The public psyche is being prepared even now to accept the mass vaccinations that have until now been voluntary, but will soon be mandated.
It is not by chance that a flu that has had so little impact upon the world has garnered such an unprecedented amount of media coverage. Nor is it by chance that so many preparations have been made in recent years and months to prepare for an unprecedented response to a global flu pandemic. The Global Research website reports the following:
The Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREPA) slipped under the radar when George Bush signed it into law as part of the 2006 Defense Appropriations Act (HR 2863). It lets the HHS Secretary declare any disease an epidemic or national emergency requiring mandatory vaccinations.
At least one other measure is also worrisome - The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA)...
On its web site, the ACLU says this about MSEHPA:
It's "written in a way that doesn't adequately protect citizens against the misuse of the tremendous powers that it would grant in an emergency. (It's) replete with civil liberties problems. Its three top flaws are that:
(1) It fails to include basic checks and balances (by) grant(ing) extraordinary emergency powers (that) should never go unchecked. (It) could have serious consequences for individuals' freedom, privacy, and equality."
(2) "It goes well beyond bioterrorism (with) an overbroad definition of 'public health emergency" that may be anything a local or national authority declares for any reason with no conclusive evidence for proof.
(3) "It lacks privacy protections (and) undercut(s) existing protections for sensitive medical information..."
Massachusetts May Be A Forerunner of What's to Come
On April 28, the Massachusetts Senate unanimously passed a pandemic flu preparation bill that rises to the level of martial law. If approved by the House and signed into law, it will mandate among other measures:
-- "vaccination, treatment, examination, or testing of" all individuals involved in providing health care - as perhaps step one before ordering the same process for all state residents;
-- owners or occupiers of all premises "to permit entry into and investigation of the premises;"
-- closure, evacuation, and decontamination of all suspected facilities; and
-- restricting or prohibiting "assemblages of persons."
Adverse Vaccination Effects on Gulf War Troops
Before deploying to the Persian Gulf in 1990 - 91 (and thereafter to the present), all US troops got a standard series of inoculations against infectious diseases - the same ones given to all US citizens traveling to the region. After arriving, 150,000 also got anthrax vaccinations and 8000 botulinum toxoid ones even though concerns were raised about adverse long-term health consequences...
Gary Matsumoto is a New York-based award-winning investigative journalist. His 2004 book, "Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That's Killing Our Soldiers and Why GIs are Only the First Victims" took sharp issue with... the Pentagon's denial of Gulf War syndrome.
Investigating the shadowy vaccination development world, he discovered US military-employed doctors and scientists conducted secret medical experiments on US citizens in violation of the Nuremberg Code and fundamental medical ethics...
Since at least 1987, biowarfare development trumped the welfare of tens of thousands of GIs used as human guinea pigs for inoculation with experimental unlicensed anthrax vaccines containing squalene - an oil-based adjuvant (to enhance immunity) known for decades to cause severe autoimmune diseases in lab animals, yet administered involuntarily without disclosure of its harmful effects to human health. Matsumoto wrote:
"The unethical experiments detailed in this book are ongoing, with little prospect of being self-limiting because they have been shielded from scrutiny and public accountability by national security concerns." He suggested the "writing (was) on the wall" of what's to come with prospects now it may be soon...
Other research shows that squalene is the experimental anthrax vaccine ingredient that caused devastating autoimmune diseases and deaths for many Gulf War veterans from the US, UK, and Australia, yet it continues in use today and for new vaccines development in labs. There's a "close match between the squalene-induced diseases in animals and those observed in humans injected with this oil: rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus."
Other autoimmune diseases are also linked to humans injected with squalene. "There are now data in more than two dozen peer-reviewed scientific papers, from ten different laboratories in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia, documenting that squalene-based adjuvants can induce autoimmune diseases in animals...observed in mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits...
Micropaleontologist Dr. Viera Scheibner conducted research into the adverse effects of adjuvants in vaccines and wrote:
Squalene "contributed to the cascade of reactions called "Gulf War syndrome. (GIs developed) arthritis, fibromyalgia, lymphadenopathy, rashes, photosensitive rashes, malar rashes, chronic fatigue, chronic headaches, abnormal body hair loss, non-healing skin lesions, aphthous ulcers, dizziness, weakness, memory loss, seizures, mood changes, neuropsychiatric problems, anti-thyroid effects, anaemia, elevated ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation rate), systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, ALS, Raynaud's phenomenon, Sjorgren's syndrome, chronic diarrhea, night sweats and low-grade fever."
Matsumoto's book includes numerous case studies of GIs afflicted with one or more of the above syndromes, their devastating effects, and the outlandish US government reaction - failing to acknowledge their existence or a connection between them and administered vaccines...
If mass vaccinations are ordered, millions of Americans may ask: Why do you keep using unsafe vaccines and other drugs when clear evidence shows their dangers? Why do you jeopardize all Americans by unleashing a future plague of serious illnesses, diseases, and disabilities? Why have you willfully and maliciously ruined my health?...
According to Matsumoto, today, "Squalene adjuvants are a key ingredient in a whole new generation of vaccines intended for mass immunization around the globe" even though researchers at Tulane Medical School and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research proved "that the immune system responds specifically to the squalene molecule."
The immune system "see(s) and recognizes it as an oil molecule native to the body. Squalene is not just a molecule found in a knee or elbow - it is found throughout the nervous system and the brain." When injected in the body, the immune system attacks it as an enemy to be eliminated. Eating and digesting squalene isn't a problem. But injecting it "galvanize(s) the immune system into attacking it, which can produce self-destructive cross reactions against the same molecule in the places where it occurs naturally in the body - and where it is critical to the health of the nervous system."
Once self-destruction begins, it doesn't stop as the body keeps making the molecule that the immune system is trained to attack and destroy...
Disturbingly, "Many of the cutting-edge vaccines currently in development by the NIH and its corporate partners contain squalene in one formulation or another. There is squalene in the prototype recombinant vaccines for HIV, malaria, herpes, influenza (including the swine strain), cytomegalovirus and human papillomavirus." Some of these "are intended for mass immunization(s) around the globe" and that possibility should terrify everyone enough to refuse any mandate or doctor's prescription to take them...
[Source: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=13859]
The Associated Press article that criticized alternative remedies stated in criticism of them, “Some contain natural things you might not want, such as lead and arsenic.” This is once more hypocrisy, for pharmaceutical companies knowingly and deliberately add such poisons to their products. Both squalene and mercury are added to flu vaccines, and it is appearing ever more likely that flu vaccines will be mandated in the near future.
There is a reason that the government has passed the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act, which shields pharmaceutical companies from financial and criminal responsibility of any adverse affects arising from their vaccines. Great harm will result among the population who receives them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Readiness_and_Emergency_Preparedness_Act
If one intended to kill off large numbers of the population by plague and disease, it seems a good place to begin would be by vaccinating all men, women and children with drugs that will decrease the effectiveness of the body’s auto-immune system. The population would then be ripe for any subsequent plague that will be unleashed upon them.
That multitudes will be killed by diseases in the last days is testified in Scripture.
Revelation 6:8
And I looked, and behold, an ashen horse; and he who sat on it had the name Death; and Hades was following with him. And authority was given to them over a fourth of the earth, to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence and by the wild beasts of the earth.
The population goals of the New World Order have been made public through numerous means. The Georgia Guidestones declare that they have set a goal of a world population of 500 million people. This means that nearly 6 billion people would have to be eradicated from the earth.
Ted Turner and Henry Kissinger are just a couple of men who have made statements openly in support of a radical reduction of the world’s population. Their thoughts on the subject can easily be discovered by doing a search on their names and the words “world population.” They certainly are proponents of a Malthusian doctrine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthus
Such ones will readily incite, create and promote wars, famines, and diseases in order to reduce the world population to a level they find suitable to their personal goals. They seek to appear as apostles of righteousness, but their actions reveal them to be children of Satan who was a murderer from the beginning.
John 8:44
"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning...”
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Sunday, June 14, 2009
The Quest - Part Four
Joseph Herrin (06-14-09)
As I write this the 39th General Assembly of the Organization of American States has recently concluded their meetings in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. I am grateful for Randy and Kathy Furman having directed my attention to this event, and circumstances surrounding it. Much of the information shared here is the result of their own research and consideration of this matter.
The Organization of American States... is an international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. Its members are the thirty-five independent states of the Americas...
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_American_States]
A document describing the aims of the OAS includes the following information:
Democracy is the cornerstone of the OAS — a necessary condition for countries’ participation and a foundation for all of its activities. The Inter-American Democratic Charter sets out a simple, clear declaration: “The peoples of the Americas have a right to democracy and their governments have an obligation to promote and defend it.”
This landmark document—adopted on September 11, 2001—defines the essential elements of democracy, indicates ways in which it can and should be promoted, and specifies how it should be defended when it is under threat. It gives the governments of the Western Hemisphere a framework to guide their collective action when democracy faces challenges.
[Source: http://www.oas.org/key_issues/eng/KeyIssue_Detail.asp?kis_sec=1]
It is quite interesting to note that the Inter-American Democratic Charter was adopted on the very day that the United States was experiencing terrorist attacks on her soil. It was the same day that the World Trade Centers were struck and collapsed, and the Pentagon was also struck and damaged. This document contains the following statement:
Any unconstitutional alteration or interruption of the democratic order in a state of the Hemisphere constitutes an insurmountable obstacle to the participation of that state's government in the Summits of the Americas process...
The Spirit is testifying that there is coming severe alterations and interruptions of the democratic order that has been observed in the United States for generations. The Constitution of the United States will be suspended in coming days. Martial law will replace the Constitutional freedoms Americans have known, and freedom and liberty will be unknown in the land.
A remarkable event occurred just prior to the convening of the 39th General Assembly of the OAS. The member states had scheduled their meeting in San Pedro Sula, Honduras for June 2-3, 2009. On Thursday, May 28th, 2009, less than a week before the meeting was to be held, an earthquake struck in the Caribbean 80 miles offshore from Honduras. The earthquake was a major one, registering 7.1 on the Richter scale. It collapsed one of the major bridges leading across the Ulua River, the largest river in Honduras. The name of the bridge that collapsed is Democracy Bridge. Democracy Bridge is located in the city of El Progreso and connects San Pedro Sula, Hinduras’ second largest city, to the rest of the country. The earthquake also caused the collapse of a water tower in the town of Independence.
http://dailymail.com/News/NationandWorld/200905280808
Democracy Bridge - Center Section Fell Into the River
One of the key aims of the OAS is to promote democracy in the Americas. In their own words they have stated, “Any unconstitutional alteration or interruption of the democratic order in a state of the Hemisphere constitutes an insurmountable obstacle...” What is pictured in the collapse of the Democracy Bridge is an alteration, and interruption which constitutes an insurmountable obstacle. The Progress (El Progreso) of Democracy in the Americas will be interrupted as the central force in the spread of this democracy, the United States, falls into the chaotic state that has been prophesied through many signs, visions, and dreams.
One of the things that will certainly be curtailed, is freedom of movement. The Democracy Bridge was designed to facilitate free movement of the people, but when a bridge is out there can be no movement across it. The OAS also has linked the promotion of basic human rights to the promotion of democracy. One document that has come forth from the OAS is the American Convention on Human Rights.
Chapter I establishes the general obligation of the states parties to uphold the rights set forth in the Convention to all persons under their jurisdiction, and to adapt their domestic laws to bring them into line with the Convention. The 23 articles of Chapter II give a list of individual civil and political rights due to all persons, including the right to life "in general, from the moment of conception," to humane treatment, to a fair trial, to privacy, to freedom of conscience, freedom of assembly, freedom of movement, etc.
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Convention_on_Human_Rights]
One reason the United States and Canada have not adopted this convention is due to its declaration that life should be protected “from the moment of conception.” Many of the OAS member states are Catholic, and therefore they included this statement recognizing the life of the unborn as part of the Convention.
It seems incredible to many that the United States, which has long been considered the central promoter of democracy, has now become the scourge of basic human rights. The United States has led the world in the promotion of abortion, failing to protect the rights of the weakest members of society. More recently we have seen the United States act in an egregious fashion by imprisoning men without giving them any legal recourse. They have been denied trial and defense, and are being held indefinitely. This action has been tolerated by many Americans for they were told that it was being done on their behalf, to safeguard their own lives. Yet the same action is now being contemplated and voiced by the President as a necessary action to be taken against the citizens of this nation.
Following is an excerpt from New York Times Article Dated May 21, 2009
Obama Is Said to Consider Preventive Detention Plan
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
WASHINGTON — President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said...
They said Mr. Obama told them he was thinking about “the long game” — how to establish a legal system that would endure for future presidents. He raised the issue of preventive detention himself, but made clear that he had not made a decision on it. Several senior White House officials did not respond to requests for comment on the outsiders’ accounts.
“He was almost ruminating over the need for statutory change to the laws so that we can deal with individuals who we can’t charge and detain,” one participant said.
[End Excerpt]
Many people fail to be alarmed by such ponderings, for they think that such a curtailing of basic rights would never be used against them. We are constantly told by the media that such actions are only necessary for terrorists and those who are threats to the security of the nation. Yet, the definition of who is a threat to the nation has been re-written to include a great many who are citizens of the United States. Included in this number are now those who are deemed as hate-based because they object to homosexuality and abortion, and those who declare that there is salvation in no other than the God of the Scriptures. Following is an excerpt from a recent (April 7, 2009) publication put out by the government of the United States’ Department of Homeland Security.
Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment
7 April 2009
(U) Prepared by the Extremism and Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division. Coordinated with the FBI.
* (U) Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration...
[End Excerpt]
It is not hard to discern the trends that are occurring at an ever accelerating pace. There is an erosion of Constitutionally protected freedoms in America, and many of the people of this nation will soon be classified as “rightwing extremists” and threats to the government for nothing more than seeking to defend the unborn or to proclaim what the Scriptures say about behaviors such as homosexuality.
There are at present 35 states that have passed “Tenth Amendment” laws, and those who support such laws are also being classified as “rightwing extremists” for the document above declares, “those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority...”
The Tenth Amendment movement is described in the following Fox News article.
By James Osborne
FOXNews.com
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
-- U.S. Constitution, Tenth Amendment
Fed up with Washington's involvement in everything from land use to gun control to education spending, states across the country are fighting back against what they say is the federal government's growing intrusion on their rights.
At least 35 states have introduced legislation this year asserting their power under the Tenth Amendment to regulate all matters not specifically delegated to the federal government by the Constitution.
"This has been boiling for years, and it's finally come to a head," said Utah State Rep. Carl Wimmer. "With TARP and No Child Left Behind, these things that continue to give the federal government more authority, our rights as states and individuals are being turned on their head."
The power struggle between the states and Washington has cropped up periodically ever since the country was founded. But now some states are sending a simple, forceful message:
The government has gone too far. Enough is enough...
For many state leaders, the degree to which Congress regulates issues within their boundaries, using the interstate commerce clause to regulate just about everything and anything, has become untenable.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry made headlines recently when he made a passing reference to the possibility of the Lone Star State seceding from the U.S., saying, "if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that?"
States rights advocates offer countless examples of what they believe is Washington's overreach.
In Utah, 67 percent of the state's land is controlled by the federal government through wilderness preserves, limiting state leaders in their bid to fill government coffers through oil and natural gas drilling after Interior Secretary Ken Salazar cancelled 103,000 acres of leases this year.
In Idaho, ranchers are furious that federal endangered species law prevents them from shooting the wolves that prey on their cattle.
"The balance of power between the states and the federal government is way out of whack," said Georgia state Senator Chip Pearson." The effect here is incalculable. Everything you do from the moment you wake up until you get to bed, there is some federal law or restriction."
[Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/26/tenth-amendment-movement-aims-power-states/]
Those familiar with the writings I post will know that I am not suggesting that any Christian make the reformation of the governments of this world their mission. I am not sharing these things to incite Christians to protest, or to become political activists. Disciples of Christ are citizens of a heavenly kingdom.
John 18:36
Yahshua answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting, that I might not be delivered up to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm."
There were great and grievous injustices and sins among the governments of Christ’s day, yet He was not sent to reform government. Yahshua came to do the will of His Father, and He was directed by the Spirit of His Father in all things. He did not choose for Himself what issues to involve Himself in, and neither should the disciples of Christ.
Christ did warn His disciples of the things they would face at the hands of the government leaders of this fallen world, and this is also my purpose in sharing those things here.
Matthew 10:17-23
"But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to the courts, and scourge you in their synagogues; and you shall even be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles... And brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. And you will be hated by all on account of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved. But whenever they persecute you in this city, flee to the next...”
At this time we are seeing great changes coming upon the nation. Those who stand in righteousness, speak forth the truth in love, and follow Christ wherever He would lead them, will be hated for His name. They will be characterized as religious extremists, as intolerant and haters. The Spirit is testifying that difficult days lie ahead for the people of God. These difficult days are necessary in order to purge, purify and refine God’s people who have remained fleshly in their ease and comforts.
Look back at the image at the top of this post. The OAS has chosen a dove with an olive branch in its mouth as the symbol of this assembly and the word “Non-violence” is displayed. The passage just quoted from Matthew begins with the words:
Matthew 10:16
"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; therefore be shrewd as serpents, and innocent as doves.”
This series of writings has been titled The Quest, for there is a long and arduous journey that they must make. Those who trust in and obey their God will not walk alone. He will be with them in all things. It is a time to be sober and vigilant. It is a time to be hearing and heeding the voice of the Spirit. If you are still pursuing the things of this world that are passing away, you should immediately end such pursuits and follow after Christ with a whole heart. It is time for His sons and daughters to enter into Sabbath rest.
May you be blessed with peace and understanding in these days.
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As I write this the 39th General Assembly of the Organization of American States has recently concluded their meetings in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. I am grateful for Randy and Kathy Furman having directed my attention to this event, and circumstances surrounding it. Much of the information shared here is the result of their own research and consideration of this matter.
The Organization of American States... is an international organization, headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. Its members are the thirty-five independent states of the Americas...
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_American_States]
A document describing the aims of the OAS includes the following information:
Democracy is the cornerstone of the OAS — a necessary condition for countries’ participation and a foundation for all of its activities. The Inter-American Democratic Charter sets out a simple, clear declaration: “The peoples of the Americas have a right to democracy and their governments have an obligation to promote and defend it.”
This landmark document—adopted on September 11, 2001—defines the essential elements of democracy, indicates ways in which it can and should be promoted, and specifies how it should be defended when it is under threat. It gives the governments of the Western Hemisphere a framework to guide their collective action when democracy faces challenges.
[Source: http://www.oas.org/key_issues/eng/KeyIssue_Detail.asp?kis_sec=1]
It is quite interesting to note that the Inter-American Democratic Charter was adopted on the very day that the United States was experiencing terrorist attacks on her soil. It was the same day that the World Trade Centers were struck and collapsed, and the Pentagon was also struck and damaged. This document contains the following statement:
Any unconstitutional alteration or interruption of the democratic order in a state of the Hemisphere constitutes an insurmountable obstacle to the participation of that state's government in the Summits of the Americas process...
The Spirit is testifying that there is coming severe alterations and interruptions of the democratic order that has been observed in the United States for generations. The Constitution of the United States will be suspended in coming days. Martial law will replace the Constitutional freedoms Americans have known, and freedom and liberty will be unknown in the land.
A remarkable event occurred just prior to the convening of the 39th General Assembly of the OAS. The member states had scheduled their meeting in San Pedro Sula, Honduras for June 2-3, 2009. On Thursday, May 28th, 2009, less than a week before the meeting was to be held, an earthquake struck in the Caribbean 80 miles offshore from Honduras. The earthquake was a major one, registering 7.1 on the Richter scale. It collapsed one of the major bridges leading across the Ulua River, the largest river in Honduras. The name of the bridge that collapsed is Democracy Bridge. Democracy Bridge is located in the city of El Progreso and connects San Pedro Sula, Hinduras’ second largest city, to the rest of the country. The earthquake also caused the collapse of a water tower in the town of Independence.
http://dailymail.com/News/NationandWorld/200905280808
Democracy Bridge - Center Section Fell Into the River
One of the key aims of the OAS is to promote democracy in the Americas. In their own words they have stated, “Any unconstitutional alteration or interruption of the democratic order in a state of the Hemisphere constitutes an insurmountable obstacle...” What is pictured in the collapse of the Democracy Bridge is an alteration, and interruption which constitutes an insurmountable obstacle. The Progress (El Progreso) of Democracy in the Americas will be interrupted as the central force in the spread of this democracy, the United States, falls into the chaotic state that has been prophesied through many signs, visions, and dreams.
One of the things that will certainly be curtailed, is freedom of movement. The Democracy Bridge was designed to facilitate free movement of the people, but when a bridge is out there can be no movement across it. The OAS also has linked the promotion of basic human rights to the promotion of democracy. One document that has come forth from the OAS is the American Convention on Human Rights.
Chapter I establishes the general obligation of the states parties to uphold the rights set forth in the Convention to all persons under their jurisdiction, and to adapt their domestic laws to bring them into line with the Convention. The 23 articles of Chapter II give a list of individual civil and political rights due to all persons, including the right to life "in general, from the moment of conception," to humane treatment, to a fair trial, to privacy, to freedom of conscience, freedom of assembly, freedom of movement, etc.
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Convention_on_Human_Rights]
One reason the United States and Canada have not adopted this convention is due to its declaration that life should be protected “from the moment of conception.” Many of the OAS member states are Catholic, and therefore they included this statement recognizing the life of the unborn as part of the Convention.
It seems incredible to many that the United States, which has long been considered the central promoter of democracy, has now become the scourge of basic human rights. The United States has led the world in the promotion of abortion, failing to protect the rights of the weakest members of society. More recently we have seen the United States act in an egregious fashion by imprisoning men without giving them any legal recourse. They have been denied trial and defense, and are being held indefinitely. This action has been tolerated by many Americans for they were told that it was being done on their behalf, to safeguard their own lives. Yet the same action is now being contemplated and voiced by the President as a necessary action to be taken against the citizens of this nation.
Following is an excerpt from New York Times Article Dated May 21, 2009
Obama Is Said to Consider Preventive Detention Plan
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
WASHINGTON — President Obama told human rights advocates at the White House on Wednesday that he was mulling the need for a “preventive detention” system that would establish a legal basis for the United States to incarcerate terrorism suspects who are deemed a threat to national security but cannot be tried, two participants in the private session said...
They said Mr. Obama told them he was thinking about “the long game” — how to establish a legal system that would endure for future presidents. He raised the issue of preventive detention himself, but made clear that he had not made a decision on it. Several senior White House officials did not respond to requests for comment on the outsiders’ accounts.
“He was almost ruminating over the need for statutory change to the laws so that we can deal with individuals who we can’t charge and detain,” one participant said.
[End Excerpt]
Many people fail to be alarmed by such ponderings, for they think that such a curtailing of basic rights would never be used against them. We are constantly told by the media that such actions are only necessary for terrorists and those who are threats to the security of the nation. Yet, the definition of who is a threat to the nation has been re-written to include a great many who are citizens of the United States. Included in this number are now those who are deemed as hate-based because they object to homosexuality and abortion, and those who declare that there is salvation in no other than the God of the Scriptures. Following is an excerpt from a recent (April 7, 2009) publication put out by the government of the United States’ Department of Homeland Security.
Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment
7 April 2009
(U) Prepared by the Extremism and Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division. Coordinated with the FBI.
* (U) Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration...
[End Excerpt]
It is not hard to discern the trends that are occurring at an ever accelerating pace. There is an erosion of Constitutionally protected freedoms in America, and many of the people of this nation will soon be classified as “rightwing extremists” and threats to the government for nothing more than seeking to defend the unborn or to proclaim what the Scriptures say about behaviors such as homosexuality.
There are at present 35 states that have passed “Tenth Amendment” laws, and those who support such laws are also being classified as “rightwing extremists” for the document above declares, “those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority...”
The Tenth Amendment movement is described in the following Fox News article.
By James Osborne
FOXNews.com
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
-- U.S. Constitution, Tenth Amendment
Fed up with Washington's involvement in everything from land use to gun control to education spending, states across the country are fighting back against what they say is the federal government's growing intrusion on their rights.
At least 35 states have introduced legislation this year asserting their power under the Tenth Amendment to regulate all matters not specifically delegated to the federal government by the Constitution.
"This has been boiling for years, and it's finally come to a head," said Utah State Rep. Carl Wimmer. "With TARP and No Child Left Behind, these things that continue to give the federal government more authority, our rights as states and individuals are being turned on their head."
The power struggle between the states and Washington has cropped up periodically ever since the country was founded. But now some states are sending a simple, forceful message:
The government has gone too far. Enough is enough...
For many state leaders, the degree to which Congress regulates issues within their boundaries, using the interstate commerce clause to regulate just about everything and anything, has become untenable.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry made headlines recently when he made a passing reference to the possibility of the Lone Star State seceding from the U.S., saying, "if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that?"
States rights advocates offer countless examples of what they believe is Washington's overreach.
In Utah, 67 percent of the state's land is controlled by the federal government through wilderness preserves, limiting state leaders in their bid to fill government coffers through oil and natural gas drilling after Interior Secretary Ken Salazar cancelled 103,000 acres of leases this year.
In Idaho, ranchers are furious that federal endangered species law prevents them from shooting the wolves that prey on their cattle.
"The balance of power between the states and the federal government is way out of whack," said Georgia state Senator Chip Pearson." The effect here is incalculable. Everything you do from the moment you wake up until you get to bed, there is some federal law or restriction."
[Source: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/26/tenth-amendment-movement-aims-power-states/]
Those familiar with the writings I post will know that I am not suggesting that any Christian make the reformation of the governments of this world their mission. I am not sharing these things to incite Christians to protest, or to become political activists. Disciples of Christ are citizens of a heavenly kingdom.
John 18:36
Yahshua answered, "My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, then My servants would be fighting, that I might not be delivered up to the Jews; but as it is, My kingdom is not of this realm."
There were great and grievous injustices and sins among the governments of Christ’s day, yet He was not sent to reform government. Yahshua came to do the will of His Father, and He was directed by the Spirit of His Father in all things. He did not choose for Himself what issues to involve Himself in, and neither should the disciples of Christ.
Christ did warn His disciples of the things they would face at the hands of the government leaders of this fallen world, and this is also my purpose in sharing those things here.
Matthew 10:17-23
"But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to the courts, and scourge you in their synagogues; and you shall even be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles... And brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death. And you will be hated by all on account of My name, but it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved. But whenever they persecute you in this city, flee to the next...”
At this time we are seeing great changes coming upon the nation. Those who stand in righteousness, speak forth the truth in love, and follow Christ wherever He would lead them, will be hated for His name. They will be characterized as religious extremists, as intolerant and haters. The Spirit is testifying that difficult days lie ahead for the people of God. These difficult days are necessary in order to purge, purify and refine God’s people who have remained fleshly in their ease and comforts.
Look back at the image at the top of this post. The OAS has chosen a dove with an olive branch in its mouth as the symbol of this assembly and the word “Non-violence” is displayed. The passage just quoted from Matthew begins with the words:
Matthew 10:16
"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; therefore be shrewd as serpents, and innocent as doves.”
This series of writings has been titled The Quest, for there is a long and arduous journey that they must make. Those who trust in and obey their God will not walk alone. He will be with them in all things. It is a time to be sober and vigilant. It is a time to be hearing and heeding the voice of the Spirit. If you are still pursuing the things of this world that are passing away, you should immediately end such pursuits and follow after Christ with a whole heart. It is time for His sons and daughters to enter into Sabbath rest.
May you be blessed with peace and understanding in these days.
Heart4God Website: http://www.heart4god.ws
Parables Blog: http://www.parablesblog.blogspot.com
Mailing Address:
Joseph Herrin
P.O. Box 804
Montezuma, GA 31063
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