[Cont. from Part 3]
TESTIMONY OF A
CONDEMNED MAN
"HE was crucified and died under Pontius Pilate. He really, and NOT MERELY IN APPEARANCE, was crucified, and died, in the sight of beings in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth. HE ALSO ROSE AGAIN IN THREE DAYS...On the day of the preparation, then, at the third hour, He received the sentence from Pilate, the Father permitting that to happen; at the sixth hour He was crucified; at the ninth hour He gave up the ghost; and before sunset He was buried. During the Sabbath, He continued under the earth in the tomb in which Joseph of Arimathaea had laid Him."
JESUS WAS
(IS) REAL!
Ignatius repeatedly used the expression "not in APPEARANCE." It seemed to be very important to him that his readers understood that he KNEW what he is talking about, and that he was not telling a parable (a fictional story with a lesson in it - such as a myth or a fairy tale), but rather relating a FACTUAL account of something that REALLY happened! So, how do we know that Ignatius himself was a REAL person, and that he knew what he was talking about? From the writings of Ignatius, which are well-documented in his seven Epistles which have been authenticated by numerous historians, both secular and religious. The two main things that make Ignatius unique as a witness, though, are:
1) The events described in the Bible DURING IGNATIUS' LIFETIME; and
2) KNOWING HE WAS SOON TO DIE, what reason would Ignatius
have to LIE? This happened again and again with Jesus' followers
SAVIOR
FOR ALL
"At this time there was a wise man who was called JESUS. And his conduct was good, and [He] was known to be virtuous. And many people from among the Jews and the OTHER NATIONS became his disciples. Pilate condemned Him to be crucified and to die. And those who had become his disciples did not abandon his discipleship. They reported that HE HAD APPEARED TO THEM three days AFTER his crucifixion and that He was ALIVE; accordingly, HE WAS PERHAPS THE MESSIAH concerning whom the prophets have recounted wonders."
1 CHANCE IN
100,000,000,000,000,000!
ODDS
ASTRONOMICAL!
1) Born at Bethlehem [Micah 5:2]
2) Preceded by a messenger (John the Baptist) [Isaiah 40:3]
3) Would enter Jerusalem on a donkey [Zechariah 9:9]
4) Would be betrayed by a friend (Judas Iscariot) [Psalms 41:9]
and sold for 30 pieces of silver [Zechariah 11:12]
5) The silver would be thrown into God's house [Zechariah 11:13]
and used to buy the Potter's Field to bury strangers [Zechariah 11:13]
6) He would stand dumb before His accusers [Isaiah 53:7]
7) He would be crucified with thieves [Isaiah 53:12]
8) His hands and feet would be pierced [Zechariah 12:10]
Basing his figures on the science of probability, Stoner and his associates compute the possibility of the above prophecies coming true: "...We find that the chance that any man might have lived down to the present time and FULFILLED ALL EIGHT PROPHECIES is 1 in 1017 (1 chance in 100,000,000,000,000,000)."
GOD'S AUTHORSHIP
CONFIRMED
After finishing his computations, Peter Stoner presented his unquestionable
conclusions: "NOW THESE PROPHECIES WERE EITHER GIVEN BY INSPIRATION OF
GOD OR THE PROPHETS JUST WROTE THEM DOWN AS THEY THOUGHT THEY SHOULD BE.
In such a case, the prophets had just ONE CHANCE IN 1017 of having them
come true in any man, but they ALL came true in Christ. This means that
the fulfillment of these eight prophecies also proves that GOD INSPIRED
THE WRITING OF THOSE PROPHECIES to a definiteness which lacks only one
chance in 1017 (WHEW!) of being
absolute."
DOCUMENTS
AUTHENTICATED
Thousands of scientists representing all different faiths, and coming from
all over the world - many of whom began with completely humanistic and
secular (worldly) views about the Bible - have authenticated the AGE of
the documents that contain the prophecies - and all scientific records
- including secular ones - agree that there was indeed a man named "Jesus"
who was born, lived and died during the EXACT period described in the Bible!
The ONLY contention between them is Jesus' DIVINITY. In almost every case,
it isn't really a matter of questioning it for scientific reasons - but
because they don't WANT to belive Jesus was God's Son. For that would mean
that GOD IS REAL
and they would then need
to change their lifestyles!
BIBLE WRITTEN WHILE
JESUS YET LIVED!
According to Emanuel Tov ('The Oxford Companion to the Bible' 1993), "...Their antiquity, disputed at first by a few scholars, is now beyond doubt, and dates BETWEEN 250 BCE (Before Christ) and 70CE (After Christ)* have been secured by carbon-14 tests, archaeological evidence, and paleography. The scrolls are kept in the Rockefeller and Israel Museums in Jerusalem, and ONLY THE MAJOR ONES ARE SHOWN TO THE PUBLICW...Some of the artifacts found near the scrolls are identical with artifacts found in the community buildings. Furthermore, the sectarian (non-religious) writings found in the caves describe the lifestyle of a community that would suit the buildings."
[NOTES: *Do
you understand the significance of these dates? Jesus died and was resurrected
in 35 AD. This collection spans a period of 252 years before Jesus'
birth to a mere 35 years after His death and resurrection (can you
remember 35 years ago? I certainly can - quite clearly!). That means that
parts of the Bible (the New Testament) were written WHILE JESUS WAS STILL
ALIVE - not several hundred years later (when memories have dimmed)! Considering
we know that more than 500 people personally saw Jesus after His death,
some of THESE writers must have been EYEWITNESSES TO HIS RESURRECTION!!
WThere's
that name again: ROCKEFELLER (America's #1 Agent of Satan)! I have only
one question for Mr. Rockefeller: Which parts of these scrolls are you
NOT permitting the public to see? And WHY?? - OL]
A NEW LOOK
AT THE PAST
"The great majority of the scrolls are written in the Aramaic script, while sixteen are written in the paleo-Hebrew (or Old Hebrew) script. Most of the scrolls have the same spelling as the Masoretic Text (MT), but a significant number are written with a previously unknown form of spelling, which frequently uses letters to indicate vowels. Some scholars argue that the scrolls displaying this special spelling were written by the Qumran scribes, for all the sectarian scrolls are written in this spelling as well. The Biblical scrolls from the Dead Sea area show what the Biblical text looked like in the last three centuries BCE and the first century CE..."
[NOTES: *"The
word 'apocrapha'...is used to designate a group of important religious
writings from antiquity that are not universally regarded as belonging
to the authentic canon of Scripture."
W"The
word 'pseudepigrapha' is the transliteration of a Greek word meaning 'with
false subscriptions,' referring to books written under an assumed name'."
- Oxford Companion to the Bible]
WHAT? NO CARD
CATALOGUE?!
"Biblical, apocryphal, and sectarian works were found in the same caves...some scholars believe that the sect's concept of scripture was more encompassing than the collection that eventually became the Jewis canon."
A MATTHEW'S
ORIGINAL?
"In the late 19th century, Charles B. Huleatt, an Egyptologist, acquired three small fragments of papyrus that were unearthed in Upper Egypt and subsequently bequeathed them to his Alma Mater, Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1901. These three segments contain the Greek text of Matthew's Gospel, Chapter 26, verses 23 and 31. There are a total of 24 lines, text on both sides. (This implies that they were part of a codex - a book with pages rather than a traditional scroll, which was written on the smooth side only. These were beginning to make their appearance during the Gospel period. In his final letter, Paul requested Timothy to bring his notebooks to him.)
VERBATIM
RECORD
"Dr. Thiede compared the fragments with four other known references: a
manuscript from Qumran, dated to 58 A.D.; one from the Herculaneum, dated
prior to 79 A.D.; one from Masada, dated between 73-74 A.D.; and one from
the Egyptian town of Oxyrynchus, dated 65-66 A.D. He astounded the scholastic
world by concluding that the Magdalen fragments were either an ORIGINAL
from Matthew's Gospel, or an IMMEDIATE COPY, written while Matthew
and the other disciples and other eye witnesses WERE STILL ALIVE! Matthew's
skills in shorthand (an essential requirement for a customs
official in a society devoid
of printing, copiers, and the like) are evident in his inclusion of the
extensive discourses, which he apparently was able to record VERBATIM (word-for-word!).
The Magdalen papyrus discovery is distinctive in that it was dated on the
basis of physical evidence rather than a literary theory or historical
suppositions. This is just an example of how advanced technology can reveal
discoveries IN EXISTING ARTIFACTS."
LIBERALS LACK
CREDIBILITY
Millar Burrows of Yale observes: "The excessive skepticism of many LIBERAL
theologians stems not from a careful evaluation of the available data,
but from an enormous PREDISPOSITION against the supernatural (and yet these
same skeptics have no trouble at all embracing aliens, ghosts, "ascended
masters," and Eastern religions - and believe it or not - Lucifer!)...On
the whole, however, archaeolgical work has unquestionably strengthened
confidence in the RELIABILITY of the Scriptural record. More than one archaeologist
has found his respect for the Bible increased by the experience of excavation
in
Palestine...THE PICTURE
FITS THE FRAME; THE MELODY AND THE ACCOMPANIMENT ARE HARMONIOUS. The force
of such evidence is cumulative. The more we find that items in the picture
of the past presented by the Bible...are compatible with what we know from
archaeology, the stronger is our impression of general AUTHENTICITY. Mere
legend of fiction would inevitably BETRAY itself by anachronisms and incongruities."*
[NOTE: *Throughout the years, HUNDRED of archaeologists have attested the authenticity of the Scriptures - BASED ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS (HARD evidence). If this were any other subject, in a court of law this would be a slam-dunk! Should we ignore all these finds? WHY? We certainly have no problem accepting anything the United Nations-sponsored evolution scientists claim. And they have NO "hard" evidence to back up their claims. Again and again, they admit (almost always "off-the-record!") that they are simply "theories," and yet the general public accepts them as FACT and doesn't question them or demand proof. Have we all become so BRAINWASHED, we dare not ask questions? - OL]
AN EXTREMELY
MULTICULTURAL BIBLE
To illustrate how incredible this is, find 10 people from your area, with similar education, speaking the same language, from the same culture (a neat trick in itself these days!) and ask them to separate and write their opinion on only ONE controversial subject. When they have finished, compare their conclusions. Do you think they will agree with each other? Of course not! But the 40 WRITERS of the Bible, with extremely diverse educational backgrounds, speaking three different languages, and from many different cultures, writing on hundreds of subjects, managed to achieve complete HARMONY, which CANNOT BE EXPLAINED by coincidence or collusion. Even the French skeptic, ROUSSEAU, saw something different in the Scriptures: "I must confess to you that the majesty of the Scriptures astonishes me; the holiness of the evangelists speaks to my heart and has such striking characters of TRUTH, and is, moreover, so perfectly INIMITABLE, that if it had been the invention of men, The 'inventors' would be GREATER THAN THE GREATEST HEROES."
[NOTE: *If
this really was a matter of collusion, as the skeptics claim, HOW on earth
did these writers communicate (and by the way, they weren't multi-lingual)
over thousands of years across three continents?! So much for the theory
that a group of men somehow got together (Where? WHEN?) and "made it all
up" (the Bible), so they would be able to "keep the people in line." You
know, when you think about it, the ONES WHO ARE SELLING THIS LINE (the
media, anti-Christian advocates and organizations) sure have a lot of room
to talk about "brainwashing" to "keep the people in line," don't they?
Two FACTS we should bear in mind: The Bible has been read by more people
and published in more languages than any other book, and according to 'The
Cambridge History of the Bible,' "No other book has known anything approaching
this constant circulation." This includes the Torah, the Koran, Shakespeare,
Homer, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, etc., etc. Also, none of the other
prophets, i.e., Buddah, Muhammad, etc., have ever claimed to be the Son
of God - only JESUS did. In addition to the above, no one has ever been
able to prove one LIE in the Bible. But, there is more. I have already
proven that the Bible is
SCIENTIFICALLY correct. Now, I will show you once again that there is also
very REAL (we would call it "hard" in a court of law) evidence to prove
the Bible is HISTORICALLY correct. And if THAT is true, on what
basis should we deny its DIVINITY?
THE LAW
THAT NEVER WAS
Not being a Baptist himself, President Jefferson chose a phrase they could readily identify with to reassure them. The actual meaning becomes very clear when read in the context that it was written. Here is the ACTUAL wording:
WALL INTENDED TO
PROTECT CHURCH
A LETTER???!! Dear Lord in Heaven: Our God-given rights were stripped, our country turned into a Modern Day BABYLON, and condemned to the fate of Sodom - all because of a PRIVATE LETTER?!!! Surely, this is all just some kind of a legal misunderstanding? Not a chance! We are talking about the Supreme Court, for crying out loud! Their job is to interpret the constitutionality of congressional bills - NOT MAKE LAW. Only the Congress can do that - not even the President with his "executive orders," let alone the Supreme Court! They have failed miserably! Are we to believe that each of them reached their supreme positions of power being completely ignorant of the US Constitution - the "SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND?" Read it for yourself. The Constitution is not written in incoherent legalese! The First Amendment is quite simple and very clear:
THE SUPREME
COURT'S AGENDA
Don't believe it? Ask your kids how often - or IF - they study the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights today - and if they can tell you where the phrase "separation of church and state" comes from. 99 times out of a 100, they will tell you it comes from our Constitution! Let's face facts. The Supreme Court is following their own personal agenda: the deliberate and systematic removal of the Constitutionally-mandated protection of our God-given rights, in preparation for a Socialist (read "Communist") world government. So, how far back does this plan go? All the way back to the GARDEN OF EDEN:
BIRTH OF MASONRY:
(aka the "Illuminati")
"According to General Albert Pike, head of American Masonry in the late
1800s, and still today regarded as the guiding light of modern Masonry:
'With her tradions reaching back to the earliest times, and her symbols
dating farther back than even the monumental history of Egypt extends...it
is [still the same as] it was in the cradle of the human race, WHEN NO
HUMAN FOOT HAD TRODDEN THE SOIL
OF ASSYRIA AND EGYPT'."W
[NOTE: *This
is a mockery of Genesis 3:7 "And the eyes of them both were opened, and
they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and
made themselves aprons."
WThis
would take it back to before The Flood - in fact, probably all the way
back to Cain and Abel. In other words, SHORTLY AFTER THEY WERE THROWN OUT
OF EDEN! - OL]
SLOUCHING
TOWARDS
ARMAGEDDON
To prove it, I am going to present some of those prophecies and show you how they are being carried out today TO THE LETTER (I remind you again that these prophecies were written thousands of years ago - long before some of these things were technologically possible)! When I have finished with them, I will show you how YOU CAN CONTROL YOUR OWN FUTURE!
THE COMING NEW
SATANIC ORDER
At the end of this Special Report - we will name and examine those who are currently coming in The Messiah's name. Their stories are fascinating - especially in the way that they personify the Biblical descriptions of the AntiChrist and his army of lesser false messiahs!
PREPARING FOR
GLOBAL SLAVERY
To Hegel, the world is a world of reason. The State is Absolute Reason and the citizen can only become free by worship and obedience to the STATE. According to Hegel, the State is the "MARCH OF GOD IN THE WORLD"* and the "FINAL END." This "final end" has supreme right against the individual, whose supreme duty is to be a member of the state. Both Fascism and Communism have their philosophical roots in Hegelianism.
[NOTE: *"March of GOD?!" Now, that's quite a line coming from the man who had the audacity to pronounce God "DEAD!" And exactly when was it that God died and left Hegel and the Humanist (atheistic) Liberals in charge?! Who notified you? I want you to PROVE it!! - OL]
A COMMIE
PROPHECIES
Back in 1848, Friedrich Engels (co-author of the "Communist Manifesto" made an amazing statement: "THE NEXT WORLD WAR* will make whole reactionary peoples disappear from the face of the earth. This, too, is progress. Obviously, this cannot be fulfilled without crushing some delicate national flower. But without VIOLENCE and without PITILESSNESS nothing can be obtained in history."
[NOTE: *the NEXT?! THERE HADN'T BEEN ANY WORLD WARS yet! Kinda gives one the idea that Engels may have known something the rest of us didn't! Like maybe he was privy to future information (12 YEARS LATER!):
PIKE'S
MASTER PLAN
WORLD WAR I will be to...destroy the house of the Czar of Russia and to
make Russia a breeding ground for Communists and atheistic beliefs.
WORLD WAR II [will be] fought to drastically STRENGTHEN Russia. Then
there will be a balancing of power until the time is right for World War
III.
WORLD WAR III is...to be between ISRAEL and the rest of the MIDDLE
EAST, forcing the entire world to choose sides (between God and
Lucifer)...when the Nations of the world are at their weakest point, the
Conspiracy plans to 'call in their chips' and take full control."
EVOLUTION
By DESIGN
"...Darwin's role was to dignify these ideas with (so-called) 'scientific'
backing and to make them accessible to the average man in terms he could
understand," observed Jane H. Ingraham. "His shattering 'explanation' of
the evolution of man from the lower animals through means EXCLUDING THE
SUPERNATURAL delivered the coup de grace to man's idea of himself as a
created being in a world of fixed truth. Confronted with the 'scientific
proof' of his own animal origin and nature, Western man, SET FREE AT LAST
FROM GOD,*
began
the long trek through Scientific Rationalism, Environmental
Determinism, Cultural Conditioning,
Perfectability of Human Nature, Behaviorism, and SECULAR HUMANISM to TODAY'S
INVERTED MORALITY and TOTALITARIAN man."
[NOTE: *WHOOPIE!FREE! (thank Darwin almighty?) Free at last: No more Ten Commandments. No more Golden Rule. No more Conscience. Whee! Party time - like at the Foot of the Mountain, maybe?! Oops! Well, maybe that's not such a good idea: remember what happened to THEM? - OL]
GOO GOO! GA GA!
GRRRRRRRRRR!
Women...represent the most inferior forms of human evolution and...are closer to CHILDREN and SAVAGES than to an adult, civilized man.(!) They excel in fickleness, inconsistency, absence of thought and logic, and incapacity to reason. Without a doubt there exists some distinguished women, very superior to the average man but they are as exceptional as the birth of any MONSTROSITY, as, for example, of A GORILLA WITH TWO HEADS; consequently, we may neglect them entirely. Re-evaluation of the conclusion that females are less intelligent finds both major flaws in the evidence that 'proves' women's inferiority and in major aspects of evolution theory." (Aw, shucks! I'll bet you say this to all the women!)
KEEPIN' THEM
IN
THE BEDROOM
"Because 'the strongest party always carries off the prize,' the result is that 'a weak man, unless he be a good hunter...is seldom permitted to keep a wife that a stronger man thinks worth his notice'."
A LOWER
FORM
"...Since humans evolve from animals, and 'no one disputes that the bull differs in disposition from the cow, the wild-boar from the sow, the stallion from the mare...the males of the larger apes from the females,' the same must be true with human females...Further, some of the traits of women 'are characteristic of the LOWER RACES, and therefore of a past and lower state of civilization..."*
[NOTE: *MERCY! Would somebody please explain to me why FEMINISTS - who are always yelling for "equal rights" and claiming they can do anything a man can do as well as he can, or better - would even consider embracing this idiot and his even more idiotic "theories?" Kinda makes me wonder if Darwin might have had a point, after all: just how dumb CAN we get?! -OL]
[Cont. in Part 5]
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