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March 6, 2016

Scripture Reading: Matthew 2:16

What time was it that Herod had diligently enquired of the wise men?  King Herod was an Edomite, not an Israelite.  He would be known as a Sephardic Jew in today’s world.  He questioned the wise men very thoroughly to find out when the future king was born, so he knew at what age his murderous rage would occur.  The evil king murdered every child that was under the age of 2 years old in about a 10 mile radius!  Why would he murder children under the age of 2 years old if Jesus was a new born infant?  In verse 11 it says that the wise men found the baby Jesus in a house, not a stable.  Does that mean anything?

Why would this Edomite/Jewish King get so upset about the birth of a young child?  Why would he attempt His murder when He was only 2 years old?  He wouldn’t be one that would challenge Herod’s rule for several decades, for He was too young.  And Herod died shortly after this incident, when Jesus was just an infant.  What a vicious hatred the Jews had for the birth of Israel’s king! 

But we live in a different time period.  Our government is similar to the government that was in Judah over 2000 years ago.  Edomite/Jews controlled the kingship, the Pharisees, and the judicial courts.  But ours is sort of like the “Wizard of Oz.”  It is based on deception.  The wizard ruled behind the curtain.  No one knew who he was--he just gave out his instructions over a loud speaker.  Everyone just obeyed his instructions, until the day that he was finally exposed.

That’s the way our government now operates.  There is a “wizard” behind the curtain that tells the elected officials what they are to do and say.  Once one figures that out, they are on their way to understanding what they have to do to save their country from total disaster.  They have to expose the person(s) who is/are giving the instructions, but is behind the curtain. 

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February 6, 2016

Scripture Reading: Obadiah 1:14

Today's scripture reading is the only reference to a crossroads that I could find that is located in the Bible.  It tells of the evil that the Edomites did when they cut off the Israelites that had escaped the destruction that they were facing in their captivity.  The Edomties stood in the crossroads and killed the escapees.   

The father of rock ‘n’ roll and king of the Delta Blues, Robert Johnson, met the devil who had taken the form of a huge black man at a crossroad. The devil took Johnson’s guitar, tuned it, and proceeded to play before handing the guitar back to Johnson. From that point on, Robert Johnson had mastery of the Blues and the guitar. He was able to play incredible new songs instantly without taking the time to write the lyrics or compose any music.

A memorial to Johnson reads: “Robert Johnson stands at the crossroads of American music, much as a popular folk legend has it, he once stood at a Mississippi crossroads and sold his soul to the devil in exchange for guitar-playing prowess.”

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January 17, 2016

2 Chronicles 15:9-15

What did the Kingdom of Judah do which enabled themto have rest from their enemies?  They made a covenant with their LORD God; just like the Vortrekkers of South Africa did in 1838. This covenant gave the covenant seed of Jacob/Israel another miraculous victory; one that saved their race from complete annihilation in South Africa by the Zulus.

In fact, the covenant that Judah and many of the righteous people of the House of Israel, who had come to Judah, was a covenant with a death penalty attached with it.  Any person who failed to participate in making this covenant was to be put to death.  It was a serious covenant that each person who was living in Judah made.

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December 20, 2015

Scripture Reading:  Jeremiah 30:11: 

“For I am with thee saith the LORD, to save thee; though I make a full end of all nations to which I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee, but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.”

This is just one verse of Scripture, but it tells a very unpopular story.  For it tells that all the countries of the world are not equal in the eyes of God.  It says that Yahweh is with some group of nations for the purpose of saving them.  And He makes the promise that although He will make a full end of all the nations that He has scattered His people to, yet He will not make a full end of them.  He adds that He will punish them, but He will not see them totally destroyed. 

Who are the nations that God will not make a “full end of?”  That is the story that is told throughout the Bible.

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November 1, 2015

Scripture Reading: Matthew 13:10-11

Jesus and his disciples preached the gospel of the ?   What is the missing word?  When I read the Bible through each month, many years ago; this question was a major inquiry that I had no idea of how to answer.  What was the gospel that our Savior and His disciples preached:  It was the gospel of the kingdom of heaven.  I had no idea what the kingdom was!  Let alone the gospel of the kingdom.

I knew the gospel of personal salvation.  I did not know the gospel of the kingdom.  So, when I went to Florida one summer for a couple of weeks about 40 years ago, to help out an independent Baptist preacher with his personal, secular contract work, while there I asked him this question:  What is the kingdom?

He answered:  “I will study it out and preach you a sermon on it this Sunday.” 

I was excited.  I would finally have a whole lot of Scriptures come out of the darkness into the light if I knew the answer to this question.  But I will never forget what happened. 

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September 27, 2015

Scripture Reading:  Acts 15:7-9

The Roman Catholic Pope came to America this week.  At the same time the Unholy Father dropped in on the nation’s capital, the Jews were celebrating their holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur; which was from Tuesday evening to Wednesday evening.  And the Muslims were celebrating one of their two most important festivals, from Wednesday evening to sundown Thursday. 

For Muslims, the event meant choosing between overserving their holiday and listening to the pope’s address to Congress, which was pushed back a day to avoid Yom Kippur.  Eid al-Adha, also known as the Feast of Sacrifice, marks the willingness of Abraham to comply with God’s request to sacrifice his son [Isaac], as well as the end of the hajj, the period when Muslims make pilgrimages to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.  At this year’s hajj pilgrimage at least 717 people were killed and more than 850 injured in a stampede outside Mecca.  Hundreds of thousands gathered for the rite, where pebbles are thrown against three stone pillars representing the devil.   

Jewish staffers at the White House had to choose between observing Yom Kippur—also known as the Day of Atonement, when traditionally, Jews spend the day fasting and participating in religious services—and being there when the Pope visited with President Obama.   Rabbis and other religious Jews weren’t there among the thousands who welcomed Pope Francis to Washington, D. C.¹ 

Few relationships in the United States’ political history have changed more over time than between United States Presidents and the Roman Catholic Popes.  Once they were totally avoided; they didn’t meet at all.  Now President Obama is the 11th consecutive president to have a meeting with the pope, beginning with President Dwight Eisenhower. 

Before the string of 11 consecutive meetings of the presidents with the pope, there was only one president who had ever met the Pope—that was the Jewish controlled President Woodrow Wilson in 1919.  He met the pope in Rome after signing the Versailles peace treaty which ended World War I.

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August 30, 2015

Scripture Reading: Genesis 27:34-38, 41

A People Without a Country

I remember reading in high school the short story about “A Man Without A Country.”  I don’t remember all the details, as it has been over 60 years ago since I read it, but the man was convicted of some crime in the country that he immigrated to, and the country deposited him.  The crime was of such a nature that the country that he left wouldn’t take him back either.  So he just floated on a boat in the international waters for the rest of his life.

There is also a people that do not have a country either.  They are destined to live in any country that will have them for they are able to parasitically make a good living off of them until they kill the host country.  It has happened over and over in history and yet very few people are aware of it. 

The Bible tells of these people.  This portion of Scripture--is it just a story of what happened to one of the many families in the Bible, or is it told to give us a clue as to what is happening in the world today?  Let’s take a short quiz on the family of Isaac and Rebekah:

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September 13, 2015

Sermon Reading:  Romans 16:17-18

The internet has turned the world into pornography junkies.  From 10 years old and upward a large number of people have access to pornographic materials from the internet.   Then there was the problem of the website known as AshleyMadison.com that was hacked.  Thirty-three million users that were hidden became known.  How much damage did this website cause?

Then there is the fact that America has been polluted by blood in the killing of its preborn.  Abortion has murdered millions of babies in America and then we discover that they (Planned Parenthood) are in the business of selling illegal aborted baby parts.  There were videos that exposed Planned Parenthood directors talking with customers for the illegal baby parts.  What a lucrative, dirty and unlawful business.

And if that wasn’t enough, there was the roller coaster ride of the financial markets.  Markets, beginning with China, all had one of their worst days and weeks on record. 

And then there are the fires out west, the drought, the plight of insects, the disease, the crime…. all happening in the land of the free and the brave.

But that isn’t all.  The Sodomites are happily out of the closet.  They parade down the streets of the largest cities in the country.  The United States Supreme Court has made it a federal law, even though the Congress is the only legal body that can make law in the country—they can now marry.