April 8, 2011
“So the great dragon was CAST OUT, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who DECEIVES the whole world; he was CAST to the earth, and his angels were CAST OUT with him. (Revelation 12:9).
Dear Brethren,
Though Satan, along with the fallen angels (demons, Revelation 12:4), were reduced to Tartarus (Greek word meaning a condition of restraint, not a place, with their knowledge and way perverted, II Peter 2:4); they are still an invisible super-natural force to be reckoned with in many different ways by an unsuspecting, naïve, and blinded world.
The same is true with God’s people; we are also naïve and trusting people. Yet Christ tells us not to trust any anyone! And that takes in the whole world! We must remember this is Satan’s world and his system from which we were called out to be separate from it! We must always be on guard and vigilant so as not to fall into his deceptive traps.
“And YOU He (God) made ALIVE (spiritually) who were DEAD in trespasses and sins in which YOU ONCE WALKED according to the course (ways) of this world, according to the prince (Satan) of the POWER OF THE AIR, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience” (Ephesians 2:1-2).
Satan the Devil and his demonic world are continually seeking any weakness we might have to destroy us (II Corinthians 11:3; Job 1:7-8; Ephesians 6:12).
An Unpopular Writing
This writing will be exploring an area that few if any people ever think about – an area that people do not want to face— let alone make any real and lasting changes!
Sadly, even when the knowledge is before them, or when experiencing penalties in themselves, many still refuse to make the needed changes that would bring about relief and healing.
They would rather pay the price than turn away from the desirable CAUSE!
A Cause for Every Effect
Remember there is a CAUSE for every effect! Few people understand this fact, and even fewer who will bother to seek out the causes to deal with the effects even though they may be suffering much or on the verge of death because of the CAUSES.
With this in mind it is presumed that only a few will seriously study the few basics covered in this writing and begin making the good changes.
The Food Chain
Through His creation, which He said was very good (Genesis 1:31), the LORD God has provided FOOD for all living things in its natural state – including mankind:
“He causes the GRASS to grow for the cattle, and VEGETATION (vegetables and grains) for the service (cultivation) of man, that he may bring forth FOOD out from the earth— and WINE that makes glad (cheers) the heart (in moderation), OIL (pure extra virgin olive oil) that makes the face to shine, and BREAD which STRENGTHENS the heart . . .” (Psalms 104:14-15).
Clarke Commentary: “. . . Three of the choicest and most important articles of life are here mentioned: WINE— for the support of the vital and intellectual spirit; BREAD— for the support of the nervous and muscular system; and OIL— as a seasoner of food . . . [all] so necessary for the maintence of health.”
Satan’s Attractive DECEPTION in the Food Chain
The original and natural Food Chain that the LORD God created is another area that Satan through his attractive deception is using to bring about diseases and sickness in our bodies that will often shorten the human life regardless of age, young or older.
Hospitals are filled and often running over with people who are experiencing the deadly killers of cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, strokes, diabetes, and a host of other health problems! Newspapers have the daily obituary listings of people who have died from one or the other of a host of diseases.
Virtually all of us have also lost dearly beloved family members by one or the other of these causes. It is also realized that each of us will also die as well sooner or later from old age or even sickness (as did Elisha, II Kings 13:14). However God makes known there is a way that we can live that will give us longer life with health.
Avoiding the Causes
To obtain the optimum in nutritious foods filled with good vitamins and minerals in proper balance, as much as possible in this age, God intended we follow His dietary laws and eat our fruits and vegetables as fresh as possible. The rule Mr. Armstrong offered: “Eat foods that will spoil but eat them before they do.”
We should buy as much as possible foods that are grown organically along with meat raised naturally and without the added hormones, etc... Also purchase wine without the added sulfites (by law listed on each bottle for many people suffer from them as do I).
It is only natural when grocery shopping, women, and men, will be looking for the best possible bargains. That is not wrong in its self, but good sense with knowledge should prevail when considering the tainted food chain.
Dr. Reuben (MD) stated in his book, Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Nutrition, “People will save pennies on food, but will end up spending thousands of dollars on hospital bills.”
Satan’s Effort to Destroy God’s Elect
Above all people, Satan wants to cut short the lives of the ELECT members of God’s true Church in any way possible; and this includes: THE FOOD CHAIN – an area that hardly anyone ever gives any real thought!
It is an established fact that disease and illness cut short the lives of millions of people, including members of God’s Church who are laborers in the harvest! The loss of these members in death make it more difficult for the Gospel and the Ezekiel warning message to reach the Church, Israel, and the world before the beginning of the Great Tribulation.
This Past Century
Satan, the prince of the power of the air, acted on the desires of people through impulses in leading them to use human reason coupled with greed to lead people in this past century to begin using unnatural growing practices (chemical fertilizers). Then they added poisons (insecticides and pesticides) to make possible rapid growth and longer shelf life.
The Poisons in Your Food by William Longgood, Inside Cover, “Since World War II a torrent of chemicals has poured into food supplies . . .”
A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives by Ruth Winter, Introduction, “Food processors have in their armamentaria 10,000 chemicals they can add to what we eat.”
These have proliferated over the years since then to the great dangers hidden within the foods we eat and only the few realize it.
Mankind from almost the beginning have also used similar methods to poison mankind’s food and cut their lives short, consider the diseases of Egypt which were prevalent prior to the Exodus (Consider also the ignoring of the dietary laws that God gave to Israel, Leviticus 11; Deuteronomy 14.). Satan has many ways to try and poison people.
To illustrate consider an example from the lifetime of Elisha when the broadcasting of Satan also affected the prophet’s food by using a servant of Elisha to try and poison them without his knowledge.
Death in the Pot
.
. . There was a famine in the land. Now the sons of the prophets
were sitting before him (Elisha); and he said to his servant, “Put
on the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.” So one
when out in the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine,
and gathered from it a lap full of wild gourds, and came in and
sliced them into the pot of stew, though they did not know what they
were. Then they served it to the men to eat. Now it happened, as
they were (beginning) eating the stew that they cried out and said,
“O man of God,
THERE IS DEATH IN THE POT!”
And they could not eat it. So he said, ‘Then bring some flour.’
And he put it in the pot and said, ‘Serve it to the people that
they may eat.’” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.
(II Kings 4:38-40).
Scripture makes known there were/and will be attempts on the lives of some of God’s people by the enemies of God’s Church who will literally add poison to their drinks or food or use the bites of poisonous reptiles to do it (Mark 16:18).
Death in the Pot Today!
There is death within the foods that many in God’s Church are eating today without realizing the harm being done to their bodies and minds. Consider the deadly harm from the sulfites used to preserve fruits, vegetables, meats, wine, etc., in the following writing:
A Consumer’s Dictionary of Food Additives by Ruth Winter, Page 236, “. . . Reactions to sulfites (Six sulfiting agents) can include acute asthma attacks, loss of consciousness, anaphylactic shock, diarrhea and nausea occurring soon after ingesting sulfating agents . . . unless they ask and are told, allergic individuals may not know sulfating agents are used in restaurant food preparation.
There are chemicals used in fertilizers, poisonous insecticides, pesticides, hormones injected into beef and dairy cattle. Unless one is being careful and selective from knowledge most are drinking pasteurized and homogenized milk, and other dairy products. Dr. Reuben wrote drinking homogenized milk can lead to a heart attack.
Raw milk is best if from a good source. My wife was allergic to that kind of milk until she tried organic raw milk and discovered she has no further problem with milk.
Please avoid the use of any substitute for real butter if you want to keep your arteries from being filled with plaque that will lead to heart attacks and strokes. It is best to stay away from any substitutes – eat the real foods – organically grown if and when possible.
The Invisible Deadly Poisons
Because the poisons are invisible, just as is Satan and his demonic world, hardly anyone thinks about the hidden deadly dangers contained in— delicious apples, peaches, beautiful luscious strawberries, plus others fruits and vegetables that are available in the markets.
Without realizing it the person is taking into their bodies poisons that have been sprayed on them. Though one may was the outside the poisons have fully saturated the inside of the fruits. In addition these poisons are residual—meaning they remain in the human body and build to the point the person will eventually pay the price. This is why one needs to be knowledgeable, vigilant, and a self-disciplinarian.
There are knowledgeable doctors and others who specialize in this area and have written books with well documented facts of the hidden dangers in the Food Chain.
They are not right on their theories but they will have presented documented facts in the areas mentioned here in this writing. For example some are against the use of salt; some against dairy products, and will offer substitutes. Scripture tells us they are wrong in these areas.
White Flour Products
Very few want to change from their life-style of eating white flour products, such as pastries, cinnamon rolls, boxed cakes, doughnuts, white bread, rolls, crackers, etc. White flour is deadly as the following writings reveal; so is also white sugar (it is classified as a drug and feeds cancer cells – check the internet). Honey is always the best to use – remember the Promised Land was a land of milk and honey.
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To make known how Deadly and Ugly is White Flour consider the following article:
White Flour Products
Diabetes Without Drugs by Suzy Cohen, RPh
Once upon a time, a crop of wheat spent months growing in Kansas. After the wheat matured wheat kernels are ground into various types of flour. In this story the wheat is going to be made into "all purpose flour" because the demand for that type of flour is high.
To make all purpose flour, wheat kernels must be stripped of their bran and germ layers. This stripping process removes the most nutritious parts of the grain, such as the fiber, minerals and vitamins. This flour will command a higher price than natural whole wheat flour because it will go through more processing.
The flour which is naturally brown--still needs to be whitened using a chemical that is standard in the flour industry, chlorine gas. The environmental protection agency categorizes chlorine gas as a pesticide and defines it as a flour-bleaching, aging, and oxidizing agent that is a powerful irritant, dangerous to inhale, and lethal. Chlorine gas, when it comes in contact with wheat, also forms another substance called alloxan, which is known to destroy pancreatic function.
Alloxan toxin is in your bread!
Alloxan is so good at destroying the pancreas that scientists even use it in clinical trials to induce diabetes in lab animals! It is a well-documented fact that bleached white flour is contaminated with alloxan. Who would do such a thing?
Let's take a closer look at this toxin. Wheat is processed in modern mills to make white flour, it undergoes a chlorine gas bath (chlorine dioxide). Other chemicals are used too, including benzoyl peroxide, which people apply externally to zap their zits.
Chlorine gas reacts with some proteins in the flour and produces alloxan as a by-product. Alloxan is anything but pure, and it's never disclosed on labels of products that use bleached white flour. In animals, alloxan destroys beta cells, the specialized group of cells in the pancreas that make insulin. And insulin, as you know, reduces your blood sugar levels.
So, in short, the more alloxan consumed, the more likely the development of diabetes, at least in lab animals. This is not a secret. Scientists routinely use alloxan to destroy the pancreas of lab animals, usually rodents.
Alloxan looks similar to glucose, so it's readily taken up by beta cell, where it sparks tremendous free-radical damage and kills the cells so they no longer produce insulin. When enough beta cells die, insulin production stops.
Researchers inject the healthy animals with alloxan to induce diabetes. When the animal is sick, they test certain drugs to determine drug efficacy.
Alloxan is in almost all commercial baked goodies made with white flour. Is it just me, or do you feel like a guinea pig, too?
The US milling industry produces about 140 million pounds of flour every day, and the use of chlorides for bleaching flour is considered an industry standard. Alloxan is a by product of the bleaching process. Since food manufacturers are not actually adding alloxan to the flour, it's not going to appear on ingredient labels. But usually 5 to 15 grams of flour could be contaminated. (if you eat anything made with white flour, you are probably eating alloxan regularly.)
The textbook of natural medicine calls alloxan a "potent beta-cell toxin."
For further information place alloxan on the internet. The results are surprising. It confirms the information given here.
Thursday, June 02, 2005 by: Dani Veracity
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/008191.html#ixzz1IsYGAy6X
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. . You may want to think twice before eating your next sandwich on
white bread. Studies show that alloxan, the chemical that makes white
flour look "clean" and "beautiful," destroys the
beta cells of the p
ancreas.
That's right; you may be devastating your pancreas and putting
yourself at risk for diabetes, all for the sake of eating "beautiful"
flour. Is it worth it?
Scientists have known of the alloxan-diabetes connection for years; in fact, researchers who are studying diabetes commonly use the chemical to induce the disorder in lab animals. In the research sense, giving alloxan to an animal is similar to injecting that animal with a deadly virus, as both alloxan and the virus are being used specifically to cause illness. Every day, consumers ingest foods made with alloxan-contaminated flour. Would they just as willingly consume foods tainted with a deadly virus? Unless they had a death wish, they probably would not. Unfortunately, most consumers are unaware of alloxan and its potentially fatal link to diabetes because these facts are not well publicized by the food industry.
. . . If you've been eating white bread for years and you have a family history of diabetes, all hope is not lost for you. Studies show that you can reverse the effects of alloxan by supplementing your diet with vitamin E. According to Dr. Gary Null's Clinicians Handbook of Natural Healing, vitamin E effectively protected lab rats from the harmful effects of administered alloxan. Now, you're not a lab rat, but you're a mammal and vitamin E is definitely worth adding to your daily regimen of nutritional supplements, especially if you have a history of eating foods made with white flour and are at high risk for diabetes.
Even if you are already diabetic, some simple changes to your diet can help treat your diabetes. First of all, stop eating foods made with white flour. Even though you already have diabetes, vitamin E supplements can still help you, as can many common foods. Garlic, for example, does wonders for diabetes. As Dr. Benjamin Lau states in his book Garlic for Health, "When fed garlic, the rabbits' elevated blood sugar dropped almost as much as it did when they were given the antidiabetic drug tolbutamide. Researchers postulated that garlic may improve the insulin effect."
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/008191.html#ixzz1IsYzRycF
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Pre-Passover Examination
Since the Passover is almost fully here this is another area that has need of examining ourselves so that we might be able to partake of the symbols of the Passover in an acceptable manner before our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
A
gain,
this
is an area that we hardly ever, if ever, consider, yet it has a
direct bearing on the SYMBOL
OF THE BREAD
and PHYSICAL
SIN;
and what those SINS involves.
It is realized we do associate the BREAD that we partake of during the Passover service with the brutal half-way death brought about by the horrible beating of Jesus Christ to make possible our physical healing, as made very plain in Scripture (Isaiah 52:13-15; 53:3-6). But do we really connect it with SIN – physical sin – which is the transgression of God’s natural laws in all areas?
“Go and Sin No More . . .”
To the sick man who was healed by Jesus Christ, it was said: “Go and sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you” (John 5:14; Matthew 9:1-6; Isaiah 33:24).
It is important to realize WHY Jesus Christ instructed the man not to “. . . go and sin no more . . .” — so he would not develop a worse health problem than what he had before Christ healed him.
When any of us are sick, infirmed, diseased, or whatever the physical problem that affects our health and mobility, we are to obey the instructions that Jesus Christ has given to us through the apostle James:
“Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the Church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the Name of the Lord, and the Lord will raise him up. And IF he has committed sins, he will be forgiven” (James 5:1415).
Think about it: When an elder prays for the sick, he is asking for forgiveness for the laws that have been transgressed to bring about the health problem. To go back to the CAUSE that has brought about the EFFECT shows a lack of repentance.
It is understood that some sins are caused by accidents; some are hereditary, contagious, and others beyond our control. Even so laws were transgressed by the transgressor and needs forgiveness and healing. And there is forgiveness and healing.
There were booklets published by the Church years ago on the laws of health and can be found on our website (www.cog-ff.com).
Scriptures to Ponder: “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin (James 4:17). “. . . Whatever is not from faith it is sin” (Romans 14:23).
“Do you not know that you are the temple of God (God dwells within each of us as His true people, John 14:23) and that the Spirit of God dwells IN you? If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are” (I Corinthians 3:16-17).
The apostle John mentions three things so necessary to the comfort of life, health of body, mind and prosperity:
“Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers (III John 2).
Without good health happiness is almost impossible, mental and physical.
Your brother and servant in Christ Jesus our Lord,
Don Billingsley
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