July 29, 2011

Chapter Three   

The Original Prophet – Elijah

God sent Elijah to King Ahab of Israel with the announcement of the famine at just the right time in their history to try and turn the kingdom around before He possibly might have brought total disaster upon them.

It was between the years of 915-895 B. C. that Elijah was enlisted in God’s service as a prophet to be sent to Israel.

Though it is not specifically stated, it is necessary to repeat that Israel was at the crossroads between possible total rejection by God as His chosen nation, and God then possibly striking the earth with total destruction! (Malachi 4:6)

Remember, the threat was made once before by God, and would have happened, had not Moses pleaded with God for Israel (Exodus 32:7-14).

The Thread of Israel’s History

In view of how Manasseh and Ephraim began to degenerate since World War II, it is necessary that we see the downhill slide of Israel after the deaths of Moses and Joshua and compare the two different times. 

There is a real parallel between the two of them. And though the circumstances vary some, the sins were exactly the same at that time as they are in this end-time. Different times, but the same abominable and horrible sins in our time as they were then!

By following the thread of history it will become easier for us to see and understand why God sent the original Elijah then, and the Elijah of this end-time. Both were sent at the very exact times they were needed and for precisely the same reasons.

In view of that period of time, and the very possible destruction of Israel as a people, we can only express our thankfulness to God that the mission for which Elijah was raised up and used by Him was successful enough that He spared them. Had it not taken place, NO ONE would be alive today, including you and me!  Think about it!

To enable us to see the parallels of the downward spiraling of the degeneracy of Israel to the very bottom of the immoral cesspool and their horrible idolatrous pagan worship of Baalism in all its forms along with that of Astarte at that time, we will begin after the death of Joshua and pick up with their up and down relationship with God in the Book of Judges – a very bloody Book of the Bible!

The State of Israel during the Judges

After the death of Joshua the judges ruled the kingdom of Israel. The book of Judges makes known this was a lengthy period of time when things really went wrong with the Israelites. It records a series of events that was repeated several times in the next 300 or so years of their history during that time.

During those many years the people of Israel would continually drift away from their God. To correct them, He allowed them to be oppressed by the nations around them. In their affliction they would cry out to God and He would deliver them by a judge who became their leader. This was repeated over and over again during those many years.

The Book of Judges is the bloodiest book of the Bible for the simple and revealing reason of their not having a strong king ruling over them; as the result they did that which was right in their own eyes (Judges 21:25).

This long period of time was followed by the next two Books, commonly called I and II Samuel. In the beginning of the first book we find Eli the priest (the High Priest of the lineage of Aaron, I Samuel 1:9), a sincere but ineffective ruler. 

Israel Receives a King to Rule Them

After his death, Samuel, who was both a prophet and a judge, replaced Eli. He proved to be a very righteous and respected prophet.

Toward the end of his life the people of Israel demanded to be ruled by a king like the nations around them after seeing the sons of Samuel were not going to be righteous rulers (I Samuel 8:1-7).

God heeded their demand and gave them Saul as their first king – a very popular choice, but lacked the most important characteristic of a leader, character that comes from obedience and trust in God! At the end of 40 years he was slain in battle and replaced by David, a man after God’s own heart.

Due to God’s good blessings under David’s capable rule, Israel prospered and was established as a major power in that time. He also reigned for 40 years. Before his death he appointed his son Solomon to succeed him (I Kings 1:28-40).

The Reign of Solomon

Solomon began his reign in 768 B. C., slightly under the age of 20. His reign was known as the golden age of Israel. The nation controlled the major trade routes and became very wealthy.

Israel had inherited the Promised Land that had been given to them because of God’s promise to Abraham (Genesis 12:7; 13:14-17; 22:15-18). They had power, prestige and prosperity. And God was prepared to give them even more if they would only obey Him (I Kings 9:4-7).

Jesus Christ spoke of Solomon’s glory, while comparing his golden age to the lowly lilies of the field at the height of their beauty and glory, when He said, “And yet I say to you that even Solomon in all of his glory was not arrayed like one of these” (Matthew 6:29)

This man was blessed far more than any man due to God appearing to him twice in dreams and granting him his desire of an understanding heart to rule the people of Israel wisely while discerning the difference between good and evil. His wisdom was known far and wide and greater than any man before or anyone after him. It gained him fame and he is celebrated both in the Bible and in legend.

World leaders sought audiences with this very wise king to gain answers to their very difficult questions (I Kings 3:12; 4:29-34; 10:1-13).

Solomon Builds the Beautiful Temple of God

God used Solomon in the beginning years of his reign to build the magnificent and beautiful Temple that was designed by none other than God Himself! It was awesome to behold and became known as one of the wonders of the world (I Kings 6:11-14, 38). 

Though his father, King David, had desired to build this beautiful Temple that would represent the presence of God dwelling in it, he was denied that opportunity and blessing (I Chronicles 17:1-4; I Kings 5:3).

However, God did choose to give the design and details of the construction of it to David (I Chronicles 28:19). He then began to accumulate all the materials that would go into the building of it.

In so doing, he said, “. . . the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent, famous and glorious throughout all countries. I will now make preparation for it” (I Chronicles 22:5).

The Building of the Temple Completed

After the completion of this magnificent Temple of God, Solomon had the ark of God brought into the Most Holy Place inside the Temple from where it had been located in the city of David, which was Zion (II Chronicles 5:1-3; I Kings 8:1-2). 

Solomon then assembled the elders and people of Israel to dedicate it during the Feast of Tabernacles, while asking in prayer on his knees with arms uplifted for God’s good blessings upon it and His people (II Chronicles 6:12-42).

God Responds to Solomon’s Prayer

God appeared the second time to Solomon after the dedication and his prayer for the people of Israel. He then told Solomon that his prayer had been heard and His blessings would be upon his family and Israel AS LONG as they obeyed the laws of God (I Kings 9:2-9). 

If they disobeyed then Israel would be CUT OFF from this Promised Land and the Temple would be cast out of God’s sight and would be destroyed! (I Kings 9:1-9; II Chronicles 7:19-20).

Solomon reigned well for the first few years. But in his older age he began to show a serious character flaw by disobeying God by taking many foreign women as his wives.

Solomon’s Departure from God

Solomon, in all his glory, began to forget the wonderful God who gave him such great and famed wisdom that surpassed all of mankind.

True to the warning from God, these foreign women led him away from the worship of the true God and he became involved with these wives in worshiping Baal (I Kings 11:1-8)! In so doing he led Israel into the same idolatrous worship by his example.

Even though he saw the magnificent Temple on a daily basis, he let slip from his mind this great and beautiful Structure represented God’s holy presence in their very midst; the true and only God who had appeared to him twice.

Solomon’s downfall was like that of many world leaders, and mankind in general: a love for women. Scripture reveals he had 300 wives and 700 concubines. Among them were the foreign women. And because of his love and desire to please these beautiful women he permitted them to lead him into idol worship. This brought about his rejection by God. 

These foreign women were steeped in the worship of pagan gods and had been expressly forbidden by God for him to take them as his wives (I Kings 11:1-9). As the result, they led Solomon away from the true worship of God into an idolatrous worship:

“For it was so, when Solomon was old (probably early 50s), that his wives TURNED HIS HEART AFTER OTHER GODS; and his heart was NOT LOYAL to the LORD his God, as was the heart of his father David” (I Kings 11:1-4).

Solomon even built a high place for the worship of the pagan gods Chemosh and Molech. It was a place where the people of Israel and his foreign wives could worship both deities, while sacrificing their little babies to the pagan deity, Molech:

Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, . . . Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the hill east of Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the people of Ammon. And he did likewise for all of his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods (I Kings 11:6-8).

God Turns Against Solomon

Because of Solomon’s continued sinning against God, He raised up adversaries against him and the kingdom of Israel, just as we find with the house of Joseph today (I Kings 11:14-26). 

Before his death, God made known to Jeroboam through His prophet Ahijah that He was going to TEAR AWAY the 10 Tribes of Israel and make him their king (I Kings 11:31).

God explained through Ahijah that this was because they had forsaken Him and worshiped Ashtoreth (female goddess, Semiramis), the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of Ammon and have NOT walked in My ways to do what is right in My eyes and keep My statutes and My judgments, as did his father David (I Kings 11:30-33).

The Reign of Rehoboam and Jeroboam

After Solomon’s death, he was succeeded by his son, Rehoboam, who began his rule over all of the tribes of Israel. 

It was at the beginning of his reign that God brought about the split between the 10 nations of Israel and the Tribe of Judah (Benjamin and Levi chose to remain with Judah). The 10 nations of Israel were then given to Jeroboam, who was to be their new king (I Kings 12:15-16).

Even though Jeroboam heard the same warning from this prophet of God that was given to Solomon, he later put it out of his mind for fear of losing his kingship over the 10 Tribes of Israel (I Kings 11:26-39).

Israel Fully Departs from God

Like so many despotic rulers, Jeroboam feared the loss of his rule over the 10 tribes due to reuniting with Judah (Benjamin and Levi were afterwards obscured under the one name of Judah) during the Holy Days when all were commanded to go to Jerusalem to observe those Days.

To prevent this from taking place, Jeroboam then established his own festival patterned after the Feast of Tabernacles, but moved it forward to the eighth month instead of the seventh month as God had commanded (I Kings 12:25; Leviticus 23:33-34).

NOTE: Though Jeroboam was from the Tribe of Ephraim, and reared in Israel, he had recently spent time in Egypt out of Solomon’s reach, where he had learned of their ways, worship of the heathen gods, and religious customs (Jeremiah 10:1-5; I Kings 11:26-28, 40).

Jeroboam gave Israel their gods, just as did Aaron and the leaders of Israel in the desert while Moses was up in the mountain with God for 40 days (Exodus 32:4, 8). These gods he introduced to Israel in defiance of the direct teachings of God (I Kings 12:28; II Chronicles 11:15; Deuteronomy 12:30-32; 18:9). 

From the Ambassador College Correspondence Course, Lesson 40, Page 11, “We learn that this is the first Bible record of the celebration of Halloween – a holiday that corresponds to God’s Feast of Tabernacles. Halloween is a counterfeit of God’s Festival, which reveal, not goblins, but the resurrection.”

Dr. C. Paul Meredith, an evangelist responsible for the writing of the Correspondence Course (uncle of Roderick C. Meredith), once told me that he felt the state and local fairs that are normally held in the fall of the year were designed to replace the Feast of Tabernacles. 

People can derive happiness of a sort from attending them and as such they do not miss out completely from the happiness they would have had attending the Feast of Tabernacles. He did not say, nor do I, that it is wrong to attend these fairs, but they should never replace the fullness of the joy and happiness derived from observing the Feast of Tabernacles.

Jeroboam chose to place his festival close enough to the commanded time of the observance of the Feast of Tabernacles so that the people of Israel would not feel left out of all the joy and happiness that comes through the celebration of God’s Festival.

The Golden Calves Represented Satan Worship

Jeroboam also set up the two golden calves for Israel to worship (explained above). The desire was still within them to worship this calf, as they had done in the wilderness when Moses was up in the mountain with God (Exodus 32:1-6), that was molded into the form of a cherub with wings, as Satan, the fallen cherub, (Ezekiel 28:14).

To make the worship of it convenient, he set one up in Bethel and the other one in Dan. This saved them from making a much longer trip to Jerusalem to observe the true Feast. He realized the nature of the people of Israel in not wanting to travel any farther than they had to, for the roads were dusty and the sun was hot.

At the same time, they had no real desire to worship the true God any longer for His laws restricted them from a licentious and immoral way of life. They had their gods with no real restrictions! 

Rather than seeking the Levites to be priests, Jeroboam chose men of his own devising from every class of people (I Kings 12:31); men who really knew not the laws of God. He also changed the observance of the 7^th Day Sabbath to the Day of the Sun-God, the day we call SUN-day, the first day of the week.

In addition to other pagan beliefs, the king of Israel followed in the same teachings until Israel went into captivity to Assyria.

Regardless of their sufferings, they never learned to remain faithful to their true God!

A Brief History of Israel’s Idolatry while in Egypt

For further understanding of what we find with Solomon’s turning away from God, to then be followed by Jeroboam who turned fully to the worship of idols, we need to briefly review the beginning history of Israel from the time of Abraham for it is through his descendants that the nation of Israel came into existence and prominence as God’s chosen nation.

The Life of Abraham

When we study the life of Abraham we find a man who obeyed the voice of God and walked in all His commandments, statutes and judgments (Genesis 26:5). Because Abraham’s heart was devoted to Him in obedience, God knew he would obey whatever he was told to do by Him (Genesis 22:11-18).

With His great plan for the ultimate salvation of mankind, God told him to leave his home country and go to a land that was unknown to him. 

It would be in his land that God would make of him a great nation and would give him and his offspring forever all the land he would see (Genesis 12:1-4). Sometime later Abraham was shown in a vision that first his descendants (12 grandsons) would be forced to go to Egypt due to a famine in Palestine.

There they would dwell for 400 years. And during those years they would become the slaves of the Egyptians (Genesis 15:12-16; Exodus 1:11). Further, God told him his descendants would return to the land He would send him in the 4^th generation (Genesis 15:16).

The land of Egypt, according to other evidence, was full of the worshipers of the Mysteries of Semiramis.

NOTE: The SYMBOLS that represented those pagan teachings and worship were in evidence when I visited Cairo, Egypt in 1981.

The Israelites remained captives among them for most of those 400 years.  There they learned how to worship the first ‘savior’ – Tammuz and his ‘virgin’ mother – the queen of heaven (Semiramis). Over time they forgot the True God, but God had not forgotten them because of His promise to Abraham (Genesis 15:16).

True to His promise, God led them out of Egypt and promised He would make them the greatest of nations if they would forsake their idol worship and follow Him. If they would not, He said He would punish them severely (Leviticus, chapter 26).

It was only a short period of time after the Israelites began their journey to the Promised Land that the people demanded Aaron make them an idol to worship, instead of God; they wanted the same old pagan gods they had known in Egypt (Exodus 32:1).

Though hints of change were to be found here and there in the Kingdom of Israel regarding the worship of Baal and Asheroth, Scripture makes known that every one of the 19 kings that ruled over the House of Israel never ceased worshiping the Golden Calf– the symbol of the FIRST ‘SAVIOR!

A Renewal of their Pagan Worship

With Jeroboam as their new king, and his full acceptance of the idolatrous worship of the two golden calves, Israel eagerly accepted the same idolatrous worship they had known while living in Egypt.

Though Solomon had opened up the way for them to begin the worship of Baal and Asheroth, Jeroboam led them even more deeply into that pagan worship, along with the golden calves, by changing the observance of God’s Sabbath to Sunday. He also caused them to cease from observing the Holy Days by establishing his own calendar.

They begin worshiping the pagan gods of the land and accepting their evil, vile, and murderous practices, along with a great loss of morals as well.

Jeroboam made his own decrees regarding calf worship and also the religion of Baalism (I kings 12:26-33). What he did carried through all the kings of Israel and, believe it or not, it yet exists today with the public at large in the House of Israel, and in their religious worship – some of it has even carried over into God’s Church, as will be explained further on in the latter part of this writing.

The Kings Who Followed Jeroboam

All the kings who followed Jeroboam were bad until Omri, who was very bad (I Kings 16:23-26). However he only paved the way for his son, Ahab, who was to succeed him after his death, and who was worse than all of the kings before him.

It is during this king’s reign that one wonders if Israel might have been destroyed had God NOT sent Elijah to them. This is true as well in our time.

President Obama

An ominous cloud of darkness came down over America on Tuesday, January 20, 2009, when a non-Israelite was sworn into the office of the president of the United States of America for the first time in this nation’s history.

This was contrary to God’s commandment to Israel, of which the tribe of Manasseh, the United States of America, is of Joseph, one of the 12 tribes of Israel:

“When you come to the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and possess it, and live in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me (Israel) like all the nations around me,’ you shall surely set a king over you whom the LORD your God chooses, one from among your brethren you shall set a king over you; YOU MAY NOT SET A FOREIGNER OVER YOU, who is NOT your brother (an Israelite, Deuteronomy 17:14-15).

With this in mind one cannot help but wonder if there a possible parallel with this man who has been sworn into the presidency in the modern-day tribe of Manasseh with Nimrod of ancient history?

President Obama is virtually worshiped by millions of people just as was Nimrod in his time: (Satan’s Great Deception, page 20, Dr. C. Paul Meredith). Consider the following statements:

“You feel like God is speaking to you", said one attendee at the inauguration.

"“The apostle Paul, Moses, John the Baptist –(he is like) any one of them. Seriously, he is like one of those apostles for our day. He came to lead us to the original design of what we are supposed to do on this earth.” Denzel Washington said.

 "I would say that he would be like Joshua going across to the Promised Land" said Don King.

THE TWO BABYLONS, Alexander Hislop, Page 51, Nimrod:

“. . . but not content with delivering man from the fear of wild beasts, he set to work also to emancipate them from the fear of the Lord. He was given the name by the people, “EMANCIPATOR” or “DELIVERER”.

There are others of his own color who view him differently as can be seen by the following articles. One noted writer likens him to Nimrod of ancient history.

Just call him 'President Nimrod'

Posted: January 17, 2009

The more things change, the more things stay the same.

~ George Bernard Shaw, "Revolutionist's Handbook" (1903)

Prologue

As I view all of the cataclysmic world events of today and how society lurches towards Perdition, I am reminded of the august words of that magnificent playwright George Bernard Shaw who, quoting the French writer Alphonse Karr, said, "The more things change, the more things stay the same."

Obama's modern lineage

"Change" was a mantra of President-elect Barack Obama, and "change" is what propelled him into the White House as the first black president of the United States by defeating a sitting senior senator from New York and the wife of the original "first black president," Bill Clinton. Yet, I don't see real change with Obama; I see Presidents Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Jimmy Carter and William Clinton, redux (part II) – but also LBJ and George W. Bush.

I see Barack Obama mimicking the fascist and socialist policies of President Wilson (1913-21), father of the League of Nations (1919), precursor to the United Nations (1945), whom conservative writer Jonah Goldberg called "the first president to speak disparagingly of the Constitution." Goldberg continued on Wilson:

Wilson's view of politics could be summarized by the word "statolatry," or state worship. … Wilson believed that the state was a natural, organic and spiritual expression of the people themselves. … Constitutional democracy, as the founders understood it, was a momentary phase in this progression. … The State does now whatever experience permits or the times demand.

I see Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-45) as a precedent figure to Obama because he himself in his own words has promised Americans FDR, part II. FDR fulfilled Wilson' League of Nations' dream by helping to create the United Nations.

I see Jimmy Carter (1976-81) as a precedent figure to Obama. Despite all his vaunted rhetoric of "Yes we can," now that Obama has been elected, his tone is much more somber, grave, almost depressing regarding the economy. President Carter called his economic times "malaise" and constantly chided Americans to "conserve energy," put on sweaters, bicycle to work and turn your thermostat down. Now that's a leader you can follow.

Finally, there are the Clinton retreads Obama is putting into key upper-level Cabinet positions. Why? Did not Obama defeat Hillary? Why is he kowtowing to the political hacks of the Clinton administration who squatted in the Reagan revolution of a great economy and took credit for it despite the fact that it was the Gingrich Congress and his "Contract with America" that held the Clintons' (Bill and Hilary) socialist tendencies in check.

Ironically, it wasn't the liberal Bill Clinton that ended the 20 fat years of Ronald Reagan, but thanks to the so-called "conservative" George W. Bush who single-handedly destroyed the conservative movement, derailing the Reagan Revolution and establishing a rejuvenated Bob Michelesque "loyal minority" for another 40 years of political irrelevance for the GOP.

Obama's ancient lineage

Speaking of utopia, this brings me to perhaps Obama's most interesting and least talked about precedent figure, the biblical Nimrod of the book of Genesis. Nimrod was the first great world leader mentioned in the Bible after the flood in the land presently known as Babylon (Iraq).

Was Nimrod good or evil? The Bible says little of Nimrod the man, but what it does reveal is very significant:

Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD." The centers of his kingdom were Babylon, Erech, Akkad and Calneh in Shinar (Genesis 10:8-10).

Without getting too detailed about biblical history, how does Nimrod relate to the United Nations and Obama? All three were one-world-government utopians, meaning their worldview and political philosophy is predicated on man being the alpha and omega of all things, the sole master of his own destiny, and that mankind has the capacity through his own efforts (apart from God and morality) of establishing a perfect society here on earth. These pagan, humanist assumptions are repeatedly condemned throughout the Bible as heretical and diabolical.

What policies or ideas did Nimrod establish that are similar to the U.N. and Obama? Nimrod was a very significant man in ancient times, the grandson of Ham and great-grandson of Noah. Nimrod started his kingdom at Babylon. He arrogantly violated an expressed commandment of God for mankind after the flood to disperse throughout the earth ("Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it," Gen. 1:28) and consolidated his lust for one-world globalism and centralized power at his stronghold of "the plains of Shinar" in present-day Iraq.

As a monument to his narcissistic power and deification of his divinity, Nimrod ordered built a giant "ziggurat"; an astrological tower, not to climb to heaven, as some biblical scholars contend, but as an observation tower to view the movements of the planets. Nimrod and ancient society at that time worshipped the stars and planets of heaven, another blasphemous violation of the Bible.

Epilogue

We clearly see though the fascist and socialist legacy of Wilson, FDR, LBJ, Carter, and even through the utopian tendencies George W. Bush, that Obama will enact statist policies designed to confiscate more of our constitutional rights and give them to the federal government. This is bad for all Americans and will only further denigrate our natural rights, or what Jefferson referred to as "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

We see in the biblical figure, Nimrod, an ancient precedent figure for Obama who was utterly narcissistic, pagan and utopian in that Nimrod was the first person to try to establish a one-world government. God was so against this idea that he "confounded their languages" so that the people who were originally of one language couldn't understand one another, and work on the "Tower of Babel" was discontinued.

Likewise, Obama's early Cabinet picks have been characterized by the propaganda media as "centrists," though they are not. These careerist politicians, appointees and ideologues – from Hillary Clinton to Carol Browner, Eric Holder, Tom Daschle, Michelle Obama, Leon Panetta, and Rahm Emmanuel, are dyed-in-the-wool socialists with overtly fascist tendencies. They are utopians in that their sole objective is to continue the FDR revolution of making "We the People" foreswear more and more of our inalienable rights to become voluntary slaves of the leviathan State.

Let me end with a quote on the Declaration of Independence from President Woodrow Wilson, who wrote that "a lot of nonsense has been talked about the inalienable rights of the individual, and a great deal that was mere vague sentiment and pleasing speculation has been put forward as fundamental principle." According to Wilson, "if a law couldn't be executed, it wasn't a real law, and that 'abstract rights' were vexingly difficult to execute."

With these two utopians controlling the most powerful nation in the history of civilization – George W. Bush on the right and Barack Hussein Obama on the left, Jefferson's "law of nature and of Nature's God" has been perverted into Wilson's "[law of] whatever experience permits or the times demand."

Ellis Washington, currently a professor of law and political science at Savannah State University, former editor at the Michigan Law Review and law clerk at The Rutherford Institute, is a graduate of John Marshall Law School and a lecturer and freelance writer on constitutional law, legal history, political philosophy and critical race theory. He has written over a dozen law review articles and several books, including "The Inseparability of Law and Morality: The Constitution, Natural Law and the Rule of Law" (2002). See his law review article "Reply to Judge Richard Posner." Washington's latest book is "The Nuremberg Trials: Last Tragedy of the Holocaust."

This article by this writer is also from another point of view......

 No He Can't

by Anne Wortham

Fellow Americans,

Please know: I am black; I grew up in the segregated South.  I did not vote for Barack Obama; I wrote in Ron Paul's name as my choice for president.  Most importantly, I am not race conscious.  I do not require a black president to know that I am a person of worth, and that life is worth living.  I do not require a black president to love the ideal of America

I cannot join you in your celebration.  I feel no elation.  There is no smile on my face.  I am not jumping with joy.  There are no tears of triumph in my eyes.  For such emotions and behavior to come from me, I would have to deny all that I know about the requirements of human flourishing and survival, all that I know about the history of the United States of America, all that I know about American race relations, and all that I know about Barack Obama as a politician.  I would have to deny the nature of the "change" that Obama asserts has come to America. Most importantly, I would have to abnegate my certain understanding that you have chosen to sprint down the road to serfdom that we have been on for over a century.  I would have to pretend that individual liberty has no value for the success of a human life.  I would have to evade your rejection of the slender reed of capitalism on which your success and mine depend.  I would have to think it somehow rational that 94 percent of the 12 million blacks in this country voted for a man because he looks like them (that blacks are permitted to play the race card), and that they were joined by self-declared "progressive" whites who voted for him because he doesn't look like them.  I would have to  wipe my mind clean of all that I know about the kind of people who have advised and taught Barack Obama and will fill posts in his administration,  political intellectuals like my former colleagues at the Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

I would have to believe that "fairness" is the equivalent of justice.  I would have to believe that man who asks me to "go forward in a new spirit of service, in a new service of sacrifice" is speaking in my interest.  I would have to accept the premise of a man that economic prosperity comes from the "bottom up," and who arrogantly believes that he can will it into existence by the use of government force.  I would have to admire a man who thinks the standard of living of the masses can be improved by destroying the most productive and the generators of wealth.

Finally, Americans, I would have to erase from my consciousness the scene of 125,000 screaming, crying, cheering people in Grant Park, Chicago irrationally chanting "Yes We Can!"  Finally, I would have to wipe all memory of all the times I have heard politicians, pundits, journalists, editorialists, bloggers and intellectuals declare that capitalism is dead  and no one, including especially Alan Greenspan, objected to their assumption that the particular version of the anti-capitalistic mentality that they want to replace with their own version of anti-capitalism is anything remotely equivalent to capitalism.

So you have made history, Americans.  You and your children have elected a black man to the office of the president of the United States, the wounded giant of the world.  The battle between John Wayne and Jane Fonda is over and Fonda won.  Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern must be very happy men.  Jimmie Carter, too.  And the Kennedys have at last gotten their Kennedy look-a-like.  The self-righteous welfare statists in the suburbs can feel warm moments of satisfaction for having elected a black person.  So, toast yourselves: 60s countercultural radicals, 80s yuppies and 90s bourgeois bohemians.  Toast yourselves, Black America.  Shout your glee Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Duke, Stanford, and Berkeley.  You have elected not an individual who is qualified to be president, but a black man who, like the pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, promises to “Do Something!"  You now have someone who has picked up the baton of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.  But you have also foolishly traded your freedom and mine, “what little there is left“ for the chance to feel good.  There is nothing in me that can share your happy obliviousness.”

Question of Birth

According to the Constitution of the United States of America no one is to be elected president unless that person is born in this country

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Part of the constitutional provision as it appeared in 1787

Natural-born-citizen clause of the U.S. Constitution

Status as a natural-born citizen of the United States is one of the eligibility requirements established in the United States Consititution for election to the office of President or Vice-President. Based on his birthplace appearing to be in Kenya, which he himself said he was born there as heard and seen in a video by many http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwhKuunp8D8

OBAMA ADMITS BEING BORN IN KENYA

Mr. Obama’s presidency does it appear to be legitimate. Even the birth certificate recently produced is highly questionable as can be seen from the following writing:

Obama's Long Term Birth Certificate a Forgery?

WorldNetDaily wrote on July 17, 2011:

"Unless the typewriter used to type Barack Obama's purported Hawaiian 'Certificate of Live Birth' in 1961 was magically capable of producing different size and shaped images with the exact same key, the document released by the White House April 27 is a forgery, says a professional typographer with 50 years experience. 'Steel-stamped letters do not expand to larger sizes and morph into different styles of type,' retired New York City typographer Paul Irey told WND. it would be impossible for the different letters that appear in the Obama birth certificate to have been typed by one typewriter, according to Irey

"'These are irrefutable proofs of forgery,' he said. His newest analysis suggests the document was assembled from images of letters or words taken from other documents. 'The forger who produced the Obama Hawaii long-form birth certificate may have thought that all typewriter typeface styles were alike,' he said. 'To get his letters, the forger must have understood that he needed to copy the old typewriter styles,' he continued. 'So the forger probably scanned a bunch of old birth certificates, without realizing that the letters in the old files were from different typewriter styles. That's why the letters in the forged document do not match each other.'"

The Constitution is Dead

The United States Constitution – the bedrock of our country – is … dead! In their Book, Who Killed the Constitution, Woods and Gutzman round up the suspects responsible for the death of the government and Founding Fathers designed. Going right to the scenes of the crime, they dissect 12 of the most egregious assaults on the Constitution. In chronicling this “dirty dozen,” the authors show that the attacks began long before presidents declared preemptive wars, congresses built pork-barrel bridges to nowhere, and Supreme Court justices began to behave as our surpreme legislators.

Never shying away from controversy, Woods and Gutzman reveal an unsettling but unavoidable truth: now that the federal government has broken free of the Constitution’s chains, government officials are restrained by little more than their sense of what they can get away with.

The Law of God

The leadership and peoples of Israel are in direct rebellion against God today just as they were when Moses went upon the mountain of God to receive from Him the 10 Commandments and molded a golden calf that was to be their god instead of the true God.

Coming back down from the mountain and upon seeing the outright rebellion of Israel, Moses in disgust and great anger threw the tablets of stone, on which the 10 commandments were written by the finger of God, at them—

Those laws were to be their bedrock and foundation and be a way of life for them, just as the constitution was to be to this once great country having been developed by the majority of men (49 of the 72 framers of the constitution) who held a belief n God.

Trough Israel’s obedience to those holy and righteous laws of God would have kept them in a right relationship with Him and would have provided them with every good physical blessing (Leviticus 26:3-13; Deuteronomy 28:1-14), but they rejected God, His laws, and His promised blessings.

The latter part of this past century has witnessed many dramatic moves away from any recognition of God, His laws and way of life. And it continually and progressively grows worse until there is no recognition of God. It was reported that a Bible could not even be found in the White House for the second swearing in ceremony of the new president, Mr. Obama.

Ancient History has Repeated Itself in Our Time

When we view changes made, and others promised to be made, since the new president has been voted into office, and supported by his very liberal congress and politically motivated supreme court, the changes are similar to what Nimrod and his party did within just a few years after the Flood in which God brought about the drowning deaths of perhaps two billion peoples more or less except for Noah; a man who walked with God, and his immediate family.

God destroyed the world at that time just as He also did with Sodom and Gomorrah, and for the same reasons— He is going to punish severely, not only the House of Joseph, but all of the tribes of Israel for their wickedness, perverse, and corrupt way of life – worshiping the creature instead of the Creator (Romans 1:18-32; Genesis 6:5-7, 13, 17).

Israel Reaches Bottom

With this background in mind, and the most evil king of all in Israel to follow, should make it easier for the reader to understand the whys and wherefores that brought about the necessity of God sending the prophet Elijah to the king of Israel to declare a terrible famine to come on Israel. 

A famine that would be so severe that it would make possible for God through Elijah to get the attention of the evil king and the people of Israel with the purpose of turning them around – even though it would only last for a little time.

King Ahab the Worst King of All Kings in Israel

Ahab, the son of Omri, succeeded his father on the throne of Israel. As already stated, his reign was the worst one of all, as Scripture reveals: “But there was no one like Ahab who SOLD himself to do wickedness in the sight of the LORD, BECAUSE his wife STIRRED HIM UP. And he behaved abominably in following idols (as do Christian Churches today), according to all that the Amorites had done, whom the LORD had CAST OUT before the children of Israel (I Kings 21:25-26). 

It is not difficult to see the parallel of today’s society and Queen Jezebel who STIRRED UP Ahab, her husband (I Kings 21:25), to follow her own destructive path that would bring God’s wrath on both the king and Jezebel, and also the peoples who would follow her.

Consider what God led another prophet to write about our time while considering the women who have been elected to be members of the House of Representatives and Senators, Governors and Judges along with others in very high positions in Government, and even as ministers in the world’s Churches.

“As for My people, children are their oppressors, WOMEN RULE OVER THEM. O My people! THOSE WHO LEAD YOU CAUSE YOU TO ERR (margin: lead you astray), AND DESTROY THE WAY OF YOUR PATHS. . . .” (Isaiah 3:16-24; 3:12).

From the writings of retired Judge Robert Bork, Slouching Towards Gommorah, Pages 208-225, he wrote of the impact that Radical Feminism is having on this country.

Please note a short quote from his writings on that subject: “Radical feminists today, like the radical students of the sixties, have discovered that they have the power to make the Establishment cringe, and back down, and so, their demands escalate” (page 216).

President Obama has been elected to serve in the presidency for four years. Thinking ahead one cannot help but wonder what the next election will bring about (2012). Will he be re-elected or will he be replaced by a woman during this next term.

The question also exists as to how much influence the president’s wife will have on him as did Jezebel on King Ahab. Time will tell. History does have a way of repeating it self.

As can be witnessed by anyone, this country is facing such monumental and terrible problems that President Obama, nor anyone else, serving in that office will be able to fix them.

There are red flags of WARNINGS flying all over this nation!

Definition of Names

For further understanding, it seems necessary that we understand the meaning of the name of Baal and the name of the Amorites. Both of these names played a major role in the history of Israel and led to their alienation from God and their demise as a kingdom.

It may be surprising to some, but Baalism never did fully go away! It is well established in a most prominent role in the religions of today. And sad to say, it is also found in the history of the Church of God and still exists today. 

With this in mind, it is needful to know and understand these pagan gods’ names and how they were worshiped.

BAAL – A general name for heathen gods. When Israel entered the land of Canaan they found that every piece of land had its own deity, its owner. Thus, there were many Baals.

AMORITE – Though this was the name of a specific people of Canaan, the name was also used as a general term for the inhabitants of Canaan (Genesis 48:22; Joshua 24:15).

The Kings Ruling Israel Led Them Astray

Under the rulership of the previous kings, Israel had become very involved in the beliefs and evil practices of the religion of Baalism contrary to the WARNING from God, which was very explicit:

“When the LORD your God cuts off from before you the nations which you go to dispossess, and you displace them and dwell in their land, TAKE HEED to yourself that you are NOT ensnared to follow them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you DO NOT enquire after their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods, I also will do likewise.’ “You shall NOT worship the LORD your God in that way; for every abomination (margin: detestable action) to the LORD which HE HATES they have done to their gods; FOR THEY BURN EVEN THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS IN THE FIRE TO THEIR GODS! Whatever I COMMAND you, BE CAREFUL TO OBSERVE IT; you shall NOT add to it NOR take away from it” (Deuteronomy 12:29-32).

Because of the kings of Israel’s failure to obey God’s law about entering into marriage with men and women of Gentile nations with their abominable religious practices, the way was opened wide to the people of Israel to fully accept these same practices and be absorbed by them (Deuteronomy 7:1-11).  

King Ahab married the very worst and most influential of the Gentile women, Jezebel. She was the daughter of Ethbaal, king of the Sidonians (Eth-baal, ‘with Baal’ king of Tyre, and priest of godless Astarte).

Princess Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, after becoming the wife of King Ahab, and now queen, brought into Israel the very worst kind of worship of Baalism. She was also a priestess and prophetess of Baal and Astarte:

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, Volume III, Page 1676

“. . . it must be clear that the Baal whom Jezebel attempted to introduce was the Phoenician Baal, pure and simple, he was another god, or rather in him was presented an idea of God very different from Jeh, And further, ‘in Phoenicia, where wealth and luxury, had been enjoyed on a scale unknown to either Israel or the Canaanites of the interior, there was a refinement, if one may so speak, and at the same time a prodigality of vicious indulgences, connected with the worship of Baal and Astarte to which Israel had hitherto been a stranger . . . It was like a cancer eating into the vitals or a head and heart sickness resulting in total decay (Isaiah 1:6). In Israel, moral deterioration meant political as well as spiritual death.”

To those who have eyes to see, the parallel of today reveals a great similarity to what we find in the nations of Israel and its Churches in our time today! When we consider this overview of the continued political and spiritual deterioration of Israel, and how Satan used this evil woman to introduce the very worst kind of worship of Baal and Astarte in Israel, it is plain to see she stole away the heart and soul of God’s chosen nation!

It was at this low level in the life of Israel that God sent Elijah with the effort of turning them back to the true God. Due to the miracles God performed through him, Israel did make a turnaround for some time back to Him. We can only imagine what would have happened to them otherwise.

With this in mind, perhaps we can better understand the mission given to Elijah by God; the very same commission given to the Elijah in our time because of the very same cancerous growth in our society today that could have brought God’s wrath so severe as to blot out human life.

Holy Scripture makes known the critical judgment and foreboding problems to be brought on Israel is from God Himself! And each time it was intended to be corrective with the desire of turning His chosen people back to Him, the true God.

As it was then, so is the same true in our time today, God would send another man who would be in the same spirit and power of Elijah to fulfill the like mission (Malachi 4:4-6; Matthew 17:11). This will be made known later in this book.

An Overview of God Dealing with the Wicked

Due to the flagrant disobedience of God’s warning through Moses to them (Deuteronomy 12:29-32), the people of Israel completely put the true God out of their minds. They went all out in the practices of Baalism; and because of this, that period of time was so violent, wicked, and evil, that God used Elijah, and a little later, Jehu, to slaughter all those in Israel who had become involved in that despicable religion.

King Ahab and Jezebel themselves were killed later, but at different times. True to His promise of WARNING FIRST (Amos 3:7), God used Elijah as His prophet and representative, to begin the removal of Baalism, by first making known to King Ahab the severe famine that would last for three and one-half years because of their extreme wickedness and vile idolatrous practices.

This was intended to be a corrective measure, and it did turn out that way due to God’s miraculous answer to the prayer of Elijah at the offering of the sacrifice. The people of Israel who were gathered there then returned to the true God upon seeing this awesome miracle. Elijah then had Israel kill all the prophets of Baal!

However, Jezebel was clever enough to keep her prophets with her; and they remained alive. A little later God used Jehu, as a leader of Israel and representative of Him, who would practically eliminate the worship of Baalism and Astarte by slaughtering all who were connected with it. He even had Jezebel killed.

As the result, there was no longer a wholesale sacrificing of babies during that time. Presumably, most of the people of Israel had their hearts turned back to their families.

In a similar manner, God was to send a man today to turn the hearts of the families around to one another -- LEST HE SMITE THE EARTH WITH A CURSE (Hebrew: utter destruction, Malachi 4:6).

It should be realized that Elijah, John, nor the man sent by God in our time, would totally turn the hearts of all the families in Israel back to each other during their missions. Scripture implies it would only be a large enough number so that God would spare everyone.

The Righteous Overwhelmed by the Unrighteous

To aid our understanding, consider a principle drawn from ancient times when Abraham pleaded with God to spare Sodom and Gomorrah for the sake of the righteous dwelling in those cities. God listened and promised to turn away His destructive wrath if there were as few as 10 righteous people found to be living there (Genesis 18:22-33).

From this and other examples in the Bible, we can see that when the majority overwhelms the righteous, God removes the righteous and deals severely with the wicked. This can be seen with Noah and his immediate family, Lot and his immediate family, and the Church in Jerusalem in 70 A. D.

And in the near future Scripture makes known that Jesus Christ will remove the true elect members of His Church from the unrighteous and take them to a place of safety just before the beginning of the Great Tribulation (Revelation 12:14).

Thus, history will once again repeat itself. The first time when the early Church fled Jerusalem in 70 A.D. to Pella, Jordan to escape the horrors brought on the Jewish people by Titus and his enormous Roman armies.

It is very sad and heart-breaking to understand from end-time prophecies what is soon to come to pass with the nations of Israel for their ungodliness. May God have mercy.

The Unrighteous are now the Majority

This past election (2008), and since then, has established the fact that the unrighteous are now the majority and firmly in control of the populace of this country, as made known by information obtained from the internet.

Washington Blade, Wednesday, December 24, 2008, “Obama was elected as probably the most pro-gay presidential candidate in history, though there were some pretty stinging defeats in marriage ballot initiatives,” said Denis Dison, a Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund spokesperson.

This election of Senator Obama has fully made known the majority of the people in the United States have no problem in electing pro-gay candidates into the highest offices of the land. Senator McCain received only 46 percent of the votes and therefore was defeated in his bid for the presidency.

Jesus Christ will soon Punish the Unrighteous

The difference with John the baptizer and the Elijah in this end time would NOT be to slaughter the wicked, but to MAKE KNOWN AND TO WITNESS of the coming slaughter that Jesus Christ Himself will inflict on them when He returns to this earth!

And Scripture reveals Jesus Christ will do this, UNLESS there is REPENTANCE of their evil and wicked ways (Ezekiel 3:17-21; 33:1-20; II Thessalonians 1:7-10).

There was no real indication of godly repentance by Judah during the mission of John the Baptizer, nor in Israel from the preaching of Elijah in this the end-time, though the warning was preached to both of them.

Even many of those who did hear and turn away from the idolatrous worship of Baalism and sin, turned back to their old way of life after the deaths of Elijah, John the Baptizer, the Messiah, and the Elijah to come.

The Purifying Tests Continue for God’s True People

Scripture makes known that the true and faithful people of God who yet remain within the true teachings will continue to be tested with even more difficult trials before the coming of Christ. The most difficult time will be when deception will be the strongest due to miracles being performed by false ministers – possibly by those who are now within the Churches of God (Matthew 24:23-24).

This will be followed by severe persecution by its leading false prophet on those who refuse to accept the idolatrous worship of Baalism, and will have the man, called the Beast, to enforce its mark (666) on pain of death (Revelation 13:15-18).

And from what the new man in that office is saying about Sunday observance being a real necessity, as well as other things, it appears he could very well be the one that Scripture tells us will hold that final office. It will not be very long before we will know for sure.

The Current Pope and Sunday— From the Internet: The Observer, Thursday, May 26, 2011: “At a mass celebrating the closing of the 24th National Eucharistic Congresson May 29, 2009 in front of 200,000 in the Italian city of Bari, Pope Benedict XVII declared that the reinforcement of Sunday worship is fundamental to his mission. This statement by him represents a return to the papacies of old, the Holy Roman Empire.”

Once this mark is enforced, the whole Christian world will return to their mother church and be absorbed completely within the embrace of this universal Church by the real representative of Baalism (Revelation 13:13-14)!

It will only be the very true people of God who will refuse to become a part of this great false religion! The protesting daughters (Protestants) will be forced to change their minds and accept the worship of this chief prophet of Baal, and the Beast, and their system, or they will be killed as well (Revelation 13:11-18)!

History is replete with the cruelties imposed on those who worshiped God aside from following the pagan beliefs and teachings of the Catholic Church.

Remember the inquisition?

The Inquisition

From the Internet: “The Inquisition was a Roman Catholic tribunal for discovery and punishment of heresy, which was marked by the severity of questioning and punishment and lack of rights afforded to the accused.

While many people associate the Inquisition with Spain and Portugal, it was actually instituted by Pope Innocent III (1198-1216) in Rome. A later pope, Pope Gregory IX established the Inquisition, in 1233, to combat the heresy of the Abilgenses, a religious sect in France. By 1255, the Inquisition was in full gear throughout Central and Western Europe; although it was never instituted in England or Scandinavia.

Initially a tribunal would open at a location and an edict of grace would be published calling upon those who are conscious of heresy to confess; after a period of grace, the tribunal officers could make accusations. Those accused of heresy were sentenced at an auto de fe, Act of Faith.

Clergyman would sit at the proceedings and would deliver the punishments. Punishments included confinement to dungeons, physical abuse and torture. Those who reconciled with the church were still punished and many had their property confiscated, as well as were banished from public life. Those who never confessed were burned at the stake without strangulation; those who did confess were strangled first. During the 16^th and 17^th centuries, attendance at auto de fe reached as high as the attendance at bullfights.

In the beginning, the Inquisition dealt only with Christian heretics and did not interfere with the affairs of Jews. However, disputes about Maimonides’ books (which addressed the synthesis of Judaism and other cultures) provided a pretext for harassing Jews and, in 1242, the Inquisition condemned the Talmud and burned thousands of volumes. In 1288, the first mass burning of Jews on the stake took place in France.

In 1481 the Inquisition started in Spain and ultimately surpassed the medieval Inquisition, in both scope and intensity. Conversos (Secret Jews) and New Christians were targeted because of their close relations to the Jewish community, many of whom were Jews in all but their name. Fear of Jewish influence led Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand to write a petition to the Pope asking permission to start an Inquisition in Spain. In 1483 Tomas de Torquemada became the inquisitor-general for most of Spain, he set tribunals in many cities. Also heading the Inquisition in Spain were two Dominican monks, Miguel de Morillo and Juan de San Martin.

First, they arrested Conversos and notable figures in Seville; in Seville more than 700 Conversos were burned at the stake and 5,000 repented. Tribunals were also opened in Aragon, Catalonia and Valencia. An Inquisition Tribunal was set up in Ciudad Real, where 100 Conversos were condemned, and it was moved to Toledo in 1485. Between 1486-1492, 25 auto de fes were held in Toledo, 467 people were burned at the stake and others were imprisoned. The Inquisition finally made its way to Barcelona, where it was resisted at first because of the important place of Spanish Conversos in the economy and society.

More than 13,000 Conversos were put on trial during the first 12 years of the Spanish Inquisition. Hoping to eliminate ties between the Jewish community and Conversos, the Jews of Spain were expelled in 1492.

The next phase of the Inquisition began around 1531, when Pope Leo X extended the Inquisition to Portugal. Thousands of Jews came to Portugal after the 1492 expulsion. A Spanish style Inquisition was constituted and tribunals were set up in Lisbon and other cities. Among the Jews who died at the hands of the Inquisition were well-known figures of the period such as Isaac de Castro Tartas, Antonio Serrao de Castro and Antonio Jose da Silva. The Inquisition never stopped in Spain and continued until the late 18^th century.

By the second half of the 18^th century, the Inquisition abated, due to the spread of enlightened ideas and lack of resources. The last auto de fe in Portugal took place on October 27, 1765. Not until 1808, during the brief reign of Joseph Bonaparte, was the Inquisition abolished in Spain. An estimated 31,912 heretics were burned at the stake, 17,659 were burned in effigy and 291,450 made reconciliations in the Spanish Inquisition. In Portugal, about 40,000 cases were tried, although only 1,800 were burned, the rest made penance.

The Inquisition was not limited to Europe; it also spread to Spanish and Portugese colonies in the New World and Asia. Many Jews and Conversos fled from Portugal and Spain to the New World seeking greater security and economic opportunities. Branches of the Portugese Inquisition were set up in Goa and Brazil. Spanish tribunals and auto de fes were set up in Mexico, the Philippine Islands, Guatemala, Peru, New Granada and the Canary Islands. By the late 18^th century, most of these were dissolved.”

God’s Indictment of this Religious System

“And in her was found the blood of prophets and saints, and of all who were slain on the earth” (Revelation 18:24).

This rigid religious system will continue only for a short space of time, for when Jesus Christ comes back to earth again He will destroy completely the worship of Baalism (Revelation19)!

Christ will then utterly remove this despicable religious system along with the forcible removal of all the other evils, just as He used Elijah and Jehu in type to do in their time (I Kings 18:39-40; Matthew 24:14; II Thessalonians 1:7-10; Revelation 18:1-24).

The Depth and Impact of the Evil

It is as difficult for us to grasp the real depth of the evil in this society today, BOTH SPIRITUALLY AND PHYSICALLY, just as it is for us to understand it during the time of Elijah.

Yet it is before our eyes and ears all the time in the media, movies and on television! And because of it happening all the time, it is very easy to become somewhat desensitized and conditioned to it.

God’s true and faithful people have to struggle against letting this become a part of our lives, or even becoming so tolerant to it that we no longer sigh and cry for the horrible sins being committed in Israel (Ezekiel 9:1-11).

Based on what is made known in Scripture, Jesus Christ will be looking favorably only on those who view these things as did Lot when he dwelt in Sodom:

“. . . and DELIVERED righteous Lot, who was oppressed with THE FILTHY CONDUCT [termed by the holy Bible as SODOMY, called ‘GAY’ today - a politically correct word] of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, TORMENTED his righteous soul from DAY TO DAY BY SEEING AND HEARING their lawless deeds)” (II Peter 2:5-8; Ezekiel 9:4-10).

To be continued—

Your servant and friend,

Don Billingsley

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