The CRIB's periodically fugacious ...
- Speaking of Catholics, it seems they have a better grasp on the signs of the times ... and yet they are self-critical of their own voice in today's culture. [LifeSiteNews; h/t Black Kettle]
- "A Canadian student association has voted to drop cystic fibrosis research as a charity. On the grounds that the disease isn’t 'inclusive' enough, as it mainly affects whites, and men." [ACE]
- This will not be the problem; one day the Al Aqsa mosque will be. [Christian Post]
- This kind of behavior is bizarre in any era, but today it is a sign of the times. [FOX News]
- BREAKING NEWS: Terrorists take over Lego product facility ... demand release of Muhammad [FOX News]
- UPDATE: Forces (lawyers and the MSM) opposed to those behind the above rallied to take Muhammad by force if necessary. A full Lego Battalion has be formed to move on the rogue facility. [Money Times (In.); h/t Europe News]
- Hedonism in a culture of society has always spiked just before God's judgment; vanity surgeries are a sure sign of this godless, self-obsessed philosophy. [FOXNews]
- Here are 20 celebrity hedonists who went too far. [CG Blog]
- BREAKING: The United States of America started the Pacific part of WWII. [Maggies Farm via Dan Ford] tb = http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/comment.php?type=trackback&entry_id=10051
- Christ must be cringing ...
With sport-utility vehicles at the altar and auto workers in the pews, one of Detroit's largest churches on Sunday offered up prayers for Congress to bail out the struggling auto industry.[Reuters; h/t Brutally Honest]
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Showing posts with label Israel. Show all posts
Monday, December 08, 2008
SIGNS OF THE TIMES: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!
Friday, December 05, 2008
FAITH: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!
The CRIB's periodically fugacious ...
- Sometimes it is necessary to subdivide in order to multiply; rotten fruit of liberal North America Anglicans continue bears rare new fruit tree. [AP/Yahoo! News]
- Talmudic flavor suggested for New Testament exegesis of study. [Assistant Village Idiot; h/t Maggie's Farm]
- What do you make of this?
Voters' economic status and religious convictions played a greater role than race and age in determining whether they supported the Nov. 4 ballot measure outlawing same-sex marriage in California, a new poll shows.[Yahoo! News/AP]- University of Dallas was the recent scene of a conference on "the justice or injustice of More's trial."
Thomas More, we now know, was a sage and a saint, but was he guilty of the formal charges that led to his execution on July 6, 1535?[First Things]- Turks & Kurds threaten 1600 year-old Assyrian Monastery. [AINA; h/t Europe News]
- Christian activist rises to cabinet post in Muslim dominated government. [Christian Post]
- This is not Psalm 122:6 ... sometimes I worry about my spiritual family!
Some Christians pray for the peace of Jerusalem; others work to tear Jerusalem to pieces. The wealthy New York based United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM) tends toward the latter. The GBGM recently approved grants to several anti-Israel groups, including a program operated by Palestinian Liberation Theologians.[Front Page; h/t Black Kettle]- Political correctness gone mad (video); how a non-religion becomes a stealth religion. [Black Kettle]
- Suffering for Jesus in the real world can't be assessed from an ivory tower. [Somewhere In South America]
- Bowden McElroy speaks of his colleagues and it's a warning for those seeking professional counseling help -
The idea of living a principled and examined life based on universally accepted values is simply not on their radar.[McElroy Counseling]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
CONSERVATIVES: A sad testimony at times!
A day doesn't go by that I don't receive or become aware of an email, article, story, or rumor promulgated by a "conservative" source that is a complete fabrication.
If we can't keep our affairs moral how can we complain about the affairs of others?
Sunday, July 06, 2008
MESSIAH: It's written in stone!
Fascinating ...But I've a nagging suspicion it is a fake! Why is that????A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is causing a quiet stir in biblical and archaeological circles, especially because it may speak of a messiah who will rise from the dead after three days.
UPDATE: This just in!
Monday, June 30, 2008
ISLAM: On lacking common sense or contact with reality?
The fact there are thousands of people in the Western World who do not understand the following but, rather, accept the contra, scares the hell out of me and makes me fear for my children and their children's children.A quote from a comment at the New English Review blog, 29 June 2008Mankind's every fear, in spite of hundreds of years and hundreds of billions of international capital, is being realized. The inmates have the keys to the asylum's control center and are not afraid to use them.
[The Belgian politician Jean-Marie] Dedecker spends a suspiciously inordinate amount of time trying to morally equate the Jews and the Muslims. But of course Jews are not flying airplanes into the sides of skyscrapers, or blowing up pizzerias or buses or trains with bomb vests, or lobbing mortars at Muslim schools, and using quotes from the Torah to justify it. Zionism is the belief that Jews deserve to have a homeland where they can be relatively free from the threat of genocide; Islamism is the belief that Islam deserves to have the entire universe, and that it should be conquered with religiously sanctioned violence and genocide. Not only are these two concepts not similar, they are practically contradictory in every sense. HT: The Brussels Journal
God help the world.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
ISLAM: And the Last Days!
It is just my opinion, but two things seem certain to me as we enter the leading edge of the one and only Last Days: first, there will be a worldwide war with Islam (and, if I am correct about the last days, Islam will gain the appearance of victory) and, second, signs of these last days will increase geometrically in the years ahead.
For the average man to keep track of current indicators is impossible; it must boggle the mind of even those trained in such a discipline.
Consider just one report from this morning's news ...The war against free speech is advancing rapidly: Associated Press reported Thursday that “Muslim countries have won a battle to prevent Islam from being criticised during debates by the UN Human Rights Council.” Council President Doru-Romulus Costea explained that religious issues can be “very complex, very sensitive and very intense…This council is not prepared to discuss religious matters in depth, consequently we should not do it.” Henceforth only religious scholars would be permitted to broach them.The UN's tentacles are everywhere present in this era; we've been warned for decades about the danger.
Presently, radical Islam (phooey - Islam herself) is being everywhere capitulated to; and, what with EU (see Sarkozy's divided Israel) & UN lackeys fawning all over each other, she stands in a unique position to thwart the cause of Christ and the Jews in the West like never before.
Because the War on Terror is being managed (sic) by women and sissies, Western Civilization has inadvertently given Islam an international soapbox of which Hussein, Qaddafi, the Ayatollahs, and the Taliban only dreamed.
Who would have thought a few decades ago Islam and the international community would have the leverage to bring back the Roman Church's doctrine of "only religious scholars would be permitted to [discuss religious issues]"? This is the Dark Ages again.
You may say I am overreacting to an isolated news item - not so ... see here and here and here.
HT - The Black Kettle "Free Speech Dies at the UN"
Monday, January 14, 2008
ESCHATOLOGY: The End of An Age!
It's just my opinion but I believe we crossed an invisible line in this sin-darkened world when we entered 2008.
The bible is clear that a day will come when the end will be clearly seen [See 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6 below].Some generation has to alive when that happens; up to the rapture of the church, Christians will participate in the events and culture of that day. There is no escaping the fact that some generation of believers will be known for its unholy "apostasy."
For the past two millennia believers from Paul to Pope, from clergy to laity, from apostate to fanatic have announced that their's is the age of the end ... I have books and pamphlets and magazines in my library from the 19th and 20th centuries showing just how often prognosticators have erred in this judgment.
That said, one can't escape the daily onslaught of material which reminds us of the signs of the end ... and even the Lord Himself warned us to be ever vigilant. Perhaps a reminder of His warnings would be helpful ..."It is like a man away on a journey, who upon leaving his house and putting his slaves in charge, assigning to each one his task, also commanded the doorkeeper to stay on the alert. Therefore, be on the alert--for you do not know when the master of the house is coming, whether in the evening, at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning-- in case he should come suddenly and find you asleep. What I say to you I say to all, 'Be on the alert!'"I could go on; but what I want to do is point to headlines of the past 24 hours, items culled from news feeds.Mark 13:34-37
THOUGHT POLICE GONE MAD:
Two citations -1. ... the notion that publications in the Western world could staunch the violence on the Muslim street half a world away by not reprinting [those Danish] cartoons, was ludicrous, even if most politically correct talking heads nodded knowingly at the suggestion that reprinting them would make matters worse. [National Post]And a third egregious example is that of Ezra Lavant, the former publisher of The Western Standard, went against the system in Canada and republished them; he is now on "trial" for offending Muslims by the act. The simple fact he has to defend his free speech rights before the Canadian Human Rights Commission (sic) is indicative of evil's victory in this arena.
2. The blogger TomaShot, who operated the now defunct Uutisia Suomesta website, a catalogue for various news stories and articles that dealt with immigration, Political Correctness and other Eurabia related issues, was dealt a serious blow by Finland’s judicial system today.
He was fined 825€ and ordered to close down his website. […] […] [H]As far as I know, TomaShot’s webpages contained very little of his own material, it was more of a repository for news articles and blog postse was convicted for republishing snippets of posts and articles of stories the courts deemed unflattering towards minorities. [Tundra Tabloid; HT: Black Kettle]
You say this is an isolated event? Not so - November 29, 2007, Stephen Boissoin [an Alberta Christian/activist] and The Concerned Christian Coalition Inc. were found guilty of offending the public for publicly proclaiming the biblical addresses of several anti-homosexual passages.
COMPLICITY OF UK:
Two items -1. Ministers are planning to implant "machine-readable" microchips under the skin of thousands of offenders as part of an expansion of the electronic tagging scheme that would create more space in British jails.I know, I know! I'm on record as pooh-poohing this fear; but I've changed my mind now that it is becoming a reality in the UK and planned here in at least on of the Colonies. Besides, the import of this post rests not in any one item but rather the collective and synergistic evidence.
Amid concerns about the security of existing tagging systems and prison overcrowding, the Ministry of Justice is investigating the use of satellite and radio-wave technology to monitor criminals.
But, instead of being contained in bracelets worn around the ankle, the tiny chips would be surgically inserted under the skin of offenders in the community, to help enforce home curfews. The radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, as long as two grains of rice, are able to carry scanable personal information about individuals, including their identities, address and offending record. [Independent (UK); HT: Black Kettle]2. When the Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, wrote the other day that in some of Britain’s Muslim communities there were now no-go areas, the great and the not-so-good rose as one to denounce him for talking nonsense. From William Hague to Hazel Blears, people said they simply didn’t recognise what on earth he was talking about. There were no no-go areas, they cried. All a figment of the Bishop’s over-active imagination, apparently. ... Sigh.The end of Western Civilization will require the almost simultaneous end of its two centuries old allies and historical greats, the UK and the USA. Continental Europe is already toast as a pillar of Western thought and practice.
The Sunday Telegraph, which ran an opinion poll on the subject, also reported the following:Church leaders in communities with large concentrations of Muslims said that Christians were being targeted. An east London vicar who had delivered Christmas leaflets in his parish said he was told to stay away from ‘Muslim areas’. He said: ‘Despite this being a mixed area, where Muslims make up only about 15 per cent of the population, I was told that the leaflets were offensive and could make people angry.’Another churchman said his path had been blocked by Muslim youths as he drove through a district of Oldham, Lancashire, last year. ‘They wanted to know why I was coming into “their” area,’ he said.
MIDDLE EAST:
Three contributions -1. The Palestinian “right of return” entered the lexicon of American policymakers in December 2006, when the Iraq Study Group Report urged the U.S. government to support Israel-Palestinian negotiations that addresses what it termed a “key final status issue.” ...Even though the Israel in Israel since 1948 is not the true Israel of the Hebrew bible or its prophesies, that Israel is indeed the secular image of the biblical Israel and that alone should cause us to be her long-suffering ally.
A year later, White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino adopted the term, though without much notice. Out of seemingly nowhere, she informed journalists at a press briefing on November 28, 2007 that “The right of return issue is a part of the road map and it's going to be one of the issues that the Israelis and the Palestinians have to talk about during … negotiations.”
Indeed, on schedule, “right of return” emerged as a motif before and during George W. Bush’s recent trip to Israel and the Palestinian Authority, when he mentioned it three time ... [Front Page Magazine]2. Coinciding with Bush's trip, the Bush administration in Washington notified Congress on Monday that it will offer Saudi Arabia the chance to buy sophisticated Joint Direct Attack Munitions — or "smart bomb" — technology and related equipment, the State Department said. [AFP]Any one recall the Mujahideen and the military equip the USA provided them to fight the Soviets with? Does the word Afghanistan mean anything to you? In a future conflict these weapons can be used against Israel just as easily as Iran ... which is Islamic, which is Jewish?3. Israel and the Palestinians opened on Monday their most serious peace talks in seven years despite differences over what each side aims to achieve. [Reuters]Anyone remember Paul's words regarding the Last Days?"Now as to the times and the epochs, brethren, you have no need of anything to be written to you. For you yourselves know full well that the day of the Lord will come just like a thief in the night. While they are saying, "Peace and safety!" then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day would overtake you like a thief; for you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness; so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert and sober."You say the USA wouldn't stand for it! Remember Iran under the Shah before Iran, and Iraq before Desert Storm? Remember the US Embassy crisis in Tehran? Come on, wake up!1 Thessalonians 5:1-6
ADULTERERS, APOSTATES, MOCKERS, etc.:
Examples only, but representative of numerous others in the past couple of years ...NBC Show Criticized for Portraying Christians as Violent 'Bible Thumpers'You may think this is an overreaction to events common to our age and fallen culture ... okay! But remember, these are items occurring in only the past 24 hours on one blogger's news feeds. Hardly insignificant ... multiply these by the hundreds of feeds of the past 365 days, as compared to 365 day period say 50 years ago!
Wally the Wiener Fights Porn - XXX Church uses porn to fight porn (next week free hypodermic needles)
Megachurch leader charged with perjury - A warrant for the arrest of 80-year-old Archbishop Earl Paulk, co-founder of Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church, was issued Monday, according to court documents.
Friday, January 11, 2008
BUSH: A Virtual Anti-semite
President George W. Bush is destined to go down as one of the greatest failures in American history. It will not be his enemies or critics who will assign him that legacy ... it will be his friends and supporters who do.
For years I've supported Dubya against all comers, but now I've had enough; betray me, shame on me; betray Israel and to heck with him! He is either as thick as his detractors say or he is an evil duplicitous man.
HT: Black Kettle
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Friday, November 23, 2007
PROPHETIC VOICE: Nothing can be done to establish peace in the Middle East!
At this time we are witnessing the skittering of man over a sin-darkened world with amazing design and predictability. You see we are following the plan of God for His End Times, brought about by our abject iniquity (especially those of us claiming some affiliation with Him, in whatever form).Most of that skittering is taking place on the very same soil all Old Testament skittering took place. From my observations I conclude the Middle East (and the world) will continue to spiral into irretrievable peril ... Annapolis notwithstanding.
Clearly, man can do nothing to prevent the providential will of God from its appointed terminus ad quem (the end toward which it is ultimately directed) ... apart from general national repentance (on a scale similar to Jonah's Nineveh) and a global return to God by mankind.
The latter truths come from a fair understanding of the sovereignty of God and His permissive will concerning man's nature and sin (what some call free will).
But that ain't gonna happen, is it? Preoccupation with nationalistic self-interests and temporal affairs blinds my brethren to the prophetic outworking of God's plan ... this privation of discernment virtually guarantees anything but repentance taking place in our lifetimes, let alone the return of man to God.
Again, given this blindness, I conclude any and all human effort toward peace is an intellectual chimera. God's prophetic timepiece is racing, geometrically, towards that day so clearly predicted by our Lord.
Those interested in being a part of the solution rather than a part of the problem should give ear to the Word and pray ..."But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."Matthew 6:33"Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?" And He said to him, "'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, 'YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets."Matthew 22:36-40Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.Romans 12:1-2Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth. For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God.Colossians 3:1-3Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world. The world is passing away, and also its lusts; but the one who does the will of God lives forever.BLOGGING ON TOPIC:1 John 2:15-17Richard Baehr - American Thinker
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
TEMPLE: Remains of second Temple might be unearthed!
Another item culled from the vast resources of the Black Kettle and deserving of a ...Oh how I love to hear the archaeologist's spade at work!Remains of the Jewish second temple may have been found during work to lay pipes at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in east Jerusalem ...
Israeli television broadcast footage of a mechanical digger at the site which Israeli archaeologists visited on Thursday.
Gaby Barkai, an archaeologist from Bar Ilan University, urged the Israeli government to stop the pipework after the discovery of what he said is "a massive seven metre-long wall."
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Friday, July 20, 2007
ANTI-SEMITISM: A Sin-disease With No Rational Whatsoever!
After all the senseless anti-semitic evil Europe has seen in the past three or four centuries, I'm dumbfounded that it apparently continues relatively unabated. FoxNews reports ...That there might be one act of antisemitism in a nation of 60 million is to be statistically understood; but frequent acts in a "civil" society is unthinkable and inexcusable.The number of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain increased by 34 percent last year, according to records collected by the Community Security Trust, a charity that monitors antisemitism in Britain and is regularly cited in government reports for being more comprehensive than police data.
That was the biggest annual increase since 1984, when the charity began collecting figures. Based on current projections, the number of incidents this year is on track to equal last year's.According to a poll in the London Times in December 2005, 37 percent of Britain's 2 million Muslims agreed that all 268,000 members of the Jewish community were legitimate targets because of Israel's policies.No question the seed of Isaac and the seed of Ismael have a history; but ask yourself what you would think if in a poll by the London Times 37 percent of Britain's 268,000 Jews agreed that all 2 million Muslims "were legitimate targets because of Islam's policies"? Or even 15%?
There would be an outcry only exceeded in history by a volcanic eruption of Krakatoa's magnitude.The names have changed but the faces and the worldviews are the same!"Bigots try to make all Jews responsible for the actions of the only democratically elected government in the Middle East," John Mann, a member of Parliament, told FOXNews.com.
"Anti-Israeli sentiment does go over the line to Antisemitism," said Mann, who chaired a bipartisan committee that studied antisemitism in Britain.
Israel-bashing has been fueled in Britain by militant left-wing trade unionists, academics and some members of the British press who regard Israel as an apartheid state determined to eliminate the Palestinians.
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ISRAEL: When Your Land Is Not Your Own!
The Black Kettle pointed me to this article in The American Thinker by James Arlandson ...Arlonson, using the New Testament, goes on to make citation upon citation of what Jesus Himself and others have said about Israel's heritage.The Palestinian media say that Jesus was a Palestinian. A Dutch film says the same. Would the so-called "historical" Jesus recognize the label? How did he refer to his homeland, even under Roman occupation? Clarity and historical accuracy, not politics, is the purpose of this article.
Here are the basic facts, in all the New Testament references that name Jesus' country.
Of course, since they aren't from the MSM or Quran, these will be dismissed as irrelevant.
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007
ISLAM: The Jewish Reality!
So you think the holocaust could not happen again? Read this FoxNews.com report and then this brief report as well then - guess again! No one near a Muslim enclave is safe.
The brain-challenged leaders of Iran are on a path to repeat the worst period of human history ever.
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