The story of the First Thanksgiving Day… and the importance of our learning to give thanks!

The Bible makes it very clearly that our having a grateful heart is very important to God!

I give thanks unto thee, O Lord,
and sing praises unto thy name.
Psalms 18.49

To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee,
and not be silent. O Lord my God,
I will give thanks unto thee for ever.
Psalms 30.12

Offer unto God thanksgiving;
and pay your vows unto the most High.
Psalms 50.14

Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks:
for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.
Psalms 75.1

So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture
will give thee thanks for ever:
we will show forth thy praise to all generations.
Psalms 79.13

It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord,
and to sing praises unto thy name, O most high:
To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning,
and thy faithfulness every night
Psalms 92.1-2

Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad;
let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein:
then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
Psalms 96.11-12

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.
Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us,
and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise:
be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting;
and his truth endureth to all generations.
Psalms 100.1-5 (1042 BC)

O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name:
make known his deeds among the people.
Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him:
talk ye of all his wondrous works.
Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart
of them rejoice that seek the Lord.
Psalms 105.1-3

Praise ye the Lord. O give thanks unto the Lord;
for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Who can utter the mighty acts of the Lord?
who can shew forth all his praise?
Psalms 106.1-2

O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms 107.1

Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness,
and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms 107.8

Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness,
and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms 107.15

Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness,
and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
Psalms 107.21, 107.31

O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: because his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms 118.1

Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.
O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms 118.28-29

At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
Psalms 119.62

O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.
O give thanks to the Lord of Lords: for his mercy endureth for ever.
To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.
To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.
To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his mercy endureth for ever.
To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:
The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:
The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms 136.1-9

O give thanks unto the God of heaven: for his mercy endureth for ever.
Psalms 136.26

I know that the Lord will maintain the cause
of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
Surely the righteous shall give thanks unto thy name:
the upright shall dwell in thy presence.
Psalms 140.12-13

Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God;
for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
Psalms 147.1

Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:
Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth,
who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
Psalms 147.7-8

We give thanks to God always.
I. Thessalonians 1.2 (54 AD)

For what thanks can we render to God again for you,
for all the joy wherewith we joy
for your sakes before our God;
I. Thessalonians 3.9

Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing.
In everything give thanks:
for this is the will of God.
I. Thessalonians 5.16-18

Let us thank God for his priceless gift!
2 Corinthians 9.15 (57 AD)

And let the peace of God rule in your hearts,
to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
Colossians 3.15 (62 AD)

And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of
the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Colossians 3.17

I do not cease to give thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers.
Ephesians 1.16 (62 AD)

Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking,
which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.
Ephesians 5.4

Speak to one another in psalms, hymns, and songs; sing and make music
from your heart to the Lord; giving thanks always for all things unto God
Ephesians 5.19-20

I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,
Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,
Philippians 1.3-4 (62 AD)

With thankful hearts offer up your prayers and requests to God.
Philippians 4.6

We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness.
Acts 24.3 (64 AD)

By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually,
that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
Hebrews 3.15 (65 AD)

I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers,
intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
I Timothy 2.1 (67 AD)

For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused,
if it be received with thanksgiving:
For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
I Timothy 4.4-5

Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom,
and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might,
be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.
Revelations 7.12

Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty,
which art, and was, and art to come; because thou
has taken to thee thy great power, and has reigned.
Revelations 11.17

Instead of always complaining about what we don’t have, we need to learn as the Apostle Paul did, that in whatsoever state we find ourselves, whether with much or little, to therein be content.

Thanksgiving was a day set aside by the Pilgrim settlers whereby they offered thanksgiving unto God for His guidance to the new land, for His protection, and for His provision.

We would do well in America, with all our political, economic, and moral problems today, to also begin with thanksgiving, and our acknowledgement that we owe everything to God.

Our problems as a nation are spiritual; and they started the moment we forgot to honor God, and we became presumptuous in our thinking, and began to take credit ourselves for our many blessings, and we forgot to honor and give thanks to God.

My prayers and hope for America is that we can once again experience a Spiritual Awakening and Revival. for I feel that is our only hope; and I would encourage all believers to pray to that end.

May God bless America, is my prayer; and in that vein my prayer for ALL of you and for our beloved country this Thanksgiving, in this year 2010 (with 10 being the number of human responsibility) is that it will mark the beginning of a time of turning in our nation back to the God of the Bible; the God of our forefathers; and the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob!

I’m praying for a spiritual renewal and restoration in our country; and for the hearts of the fathers and mothers to return to their children and to their families; that the fundamental building blocks of our country, which is true for of all nations, which are the family units within those nations, that the emphasis would once again be centered around the marriage vow, in the covenant between both husband and wife, before God… which promises to remain together in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, for better or worse, until death do you part… that these vows would be kept and honored once again!

My prayer is that men and women of faith would take back our country, and that we stop once and for all this silly idea that we can elect men and women to political office, who make our laws and set the course for our nation and future generations, and expect anything different from what we see today in Washington DC, among both Republicans and Democrats, from people who have yet to have an encounter with God, who though they may and some often do speak of Him (especially around election time), and some are even religious; but we can know from their fruit (or lack of same) that they have not committed their lives to Him and their hearts are far from Him.

My prayer for America is that we will once again elect godly men and women to office; and that men and women of faith within our country would take back our country, in Jesus name!

Let us all begin this new year by giving thanks, and by our honoring God…

and may all of you have a blessed and HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Skip Barland

Celebrating Thanksgiving in AmericaDavid

Barton – 11/2008

The tradition introduced by European Americans of Thanksgiving as a time to focus on God and His blessings dates back well over four centuries in America.

For example, such thanksgivings occurred in 1541 at Palo Duro Canyon, Texas with Coronado and 1,500 of his men:

1 in 1564 at St. Augustine, Florida with French Huguenot (Protestant) colonists;

2 in 1598 at El Paso, Texas with Juan de Oñate and his expedition;

3 in 1607 at Cape Henry, Virginia with the landing of the Jamestown settlers;

4 in 1619 at Berkeley Plantation, Virginia;

5 (and many other such celebrations). But it is primarily from the Pilgrim’s Thanksgiving celebration of 1621 that we derive the current tradition of Thanksgiving Day.

The Pilgrims set sail for America on September 6, 1620, and for two months braved the harsh elements of a storm-tossed sea.

Upon disembarking at Plymouth Rock, they held a prayer service and then hastily began building shelters; however, unprepared for such a harsh New England winter, nearly half of them died before spring.

6 Emerging from that grueling winter, the Pilgrims were surprised when an Indian named Samoset approached them and greeted them in their own language, explaining to them that he had learned English from fishermen and traders.

A week later, Samoset returned with a friend named Squanto, who lived with the Pilgrims and accepted their Christian faith. Squanto taught the Pilgrims much about how to live in the New World, and he and Samoset helped forge a long-lasting peace treaty between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians. Pilgrim Governor William Bradford described Squanto as “a special instrument sent of God for [our] good . . . and never left [us] till he died.”

7 That summer, the Pilgrims, still persevering in prayer and assisted by helpful Indians,

8 reaped a bountiful harvest.

9 As Pilgrim Edward Winslow (later to become the Governor) affirmed, “God be praised, we had a good increase of corn”; “by the goodness of God, we are far from want.”

10 The grateful Pilgrims therefore declared a three-day feast in December 1621 to thank God and to celebrate with their Indian friends

11 – America’s first Thanksgiving Festival. Ninety Wampanoag Indians joined the fifty Pilgrims for three days of feasting (which included shellfish, lobsters, turkey, corn bread, berries, deer, and other foods), of play (the young Pilgrim and Wampanoag men engaged in races, wrestling matches, and athletic events), and of prayer. This celebration and its accompanying activities were the origin of the holiday that Americans now celebrate each November.

However, while the Pilgrims enjoyed times of prosperity for which they thanked God, they also suffered extreme hardships.

In fact, in 1623 they experienced an extended and prolonged drought. Knowing that without a change in the weather there would be no harvest and the winter would be filled with death and starvation, Governor Bradford called the Pilgrims to a time of prayer and fasting to seek God’s direct intervention.

Significantly, shortly after that time of prayer – and to the great amazement of the Indian who witnessed the scene – clouds appeared in the sky and a gentle and steady rain began to fall. As Governor Bradford explained:

It came without either wind or thunder or any violence, and by degrees in abundance, as that ye earth was thoroughly wet and soaked therewith, which did so apparently revive and quicken ye decayed corn and other fruits as was wonderful to see, and made ye Indians astonished to behold; and afterwards the Lord sent them such seasonable showers, with interchange of fair warm weather as, through His blessing, caused a fruitful and liberal harvest, to their no small comfort and rejoicing.

12 The drought had been broken; the fall therefore produced an abundant harvest; there was cause for another thanksgiving. The Pilgrim practice of designating an official time of Thanksgiving spread into neighboring colonies and became an annual tradition.

13 And just as those neighboring colonies followed the Pilgrims’ example of calling for days of thanksgiving, so, too, did they adopt their practice of calling for a time of prayer and fasting. The New England Colonies therefore developed a practice of calling for a day of prayer and fasting in the spring, and a day of prayer and thanksgiving in the fall.

The Thanksgiving celebrations so common throughout New England did not begin to spread southward until the American Revolution, when Congress issued eight separate national Thanksgiving Proclamations. (Congress also issued seven separate proclamations for times of fasting and prayer, for a total of 15 official prayer proclamations during the American Revolution.

14) America’s first national Thanksgiving occurred in 1789 with the commencement of the federal government.

According to the Congressional Record for September 25 of that year, the first act after the Framers completed the framing of the Bill of Rights was that:

Mr. [Elias] Boudinot said he could not think of letting the session pass without offering an opportunity to all the citizens of the United States of joining with one voice in returning to Almighty God their sincere thanks for the many blessings He had poured down upon them. With this view, therefore, he would move the following resolution:

Resolved, That a joint committee of both Houses be directed to wait upon the President of the United States to request that he would recommend to the people of the United States a Day of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer. . . .

Mr. Roger Sherman justified the practice of thanksgiving on any single event not only as a laudable one in itself but also as warranted by a number of precedents in Holy Writ. . . . This example he thought worthy of a Christian imitation on the present occasion.

15 That congressional resolution was delivered to President George Washington, who heartily concurred with the request and issued the first federal Thanksgiving proclamation, declaring in part:

Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor. . . . Now, therefore, I do appoint Thursday, the 26th day of November 1789 . . . that we may all unite to render unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection.

16 That same year, the Protestant Episcopal Church (of which President Washington was a member) announced that the first Thursday in November would become its regular day for giving thanks, “unless another day be appointed by the civil authorities.”

17 Following President Washington’s initial proclamation, national Thanksgiving Proclamations occurred only sporadically (another by President Washington in 1795, one by John Adams in 1799, one by James Madison in 1814 and again in 1815, etc.);

18 most official Thanksgiving observances occurred at the state level. In fact, by 1815, the various state governments had issued at least 1,400 official prayer proclamations, almost half for times of thanksgiving and prayer and the other half for times of fasting and prayer.

19 Much of the credit for the adoption of Thanksgiving as an annual national holiday may be attributed to Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale, the editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, a popular lady’s books containing poetry, art work, and articles by America’s leading authors. For nearly three decades, she promoted the idea of a national Thanksgiving Day,

20 contacting president after president until Abraham Lincoln responded in 1863 by setting aside the last Thursday of that November. The Thanksgiving proclamation issued by Lincoln was remarkable not only for its strong religious content but also for its timing, for it was delivered in the midst of the darkest days of the Civil War, with the Union having lost battle after battle throughout the first three years of that conflict. Yet, despite those dark circumstances, Lincoln nevertheless called Americans to prayer with an air of positive optimism and genuine thankfulness, noting that:

The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the Source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God. . . . No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, Who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

21 That remarkable Thanksgiving Proclamation came at a pivotal point in Lincoln’s spiritual life. Three months earlier, the Battle of Gettysburg had occurred, resulting in the loss of some 60,000 American lives. It had been while Lincoln was walking among the thousands of graves there at Gettysburg that he first committed his life to Christ. As he later explained to a clergyman:

When I left Springfield [Illinois, to assume the Presidency], I asked the people to pray for me. I was not a Christian. When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian. But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.

22 The dramatic spiritual impact resulting from that experience was not only visible in Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Day proclamation (and also his 1864 call for a day of prayer and fasting) but especially in his 1865 Second Inaugural Address.

Over the seventy-five years following Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, presidents faithfully followed Lincoln’s precedent, annually declaring a national Thanksgiving Day (but the date of the celebrations varied widely from proclamation to proclamation).

In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt began celebrating Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of each November, and in 1941, Congress permanently established that day as the national Thanksgiving holiday.

23 As you celebrate Thanksgiving this year, remember to retain the original gratefulness to God that has always been the spirit of this – the oldest of all American holidays. (Below are representative examples of the scores of Thanksgiving proclamations penned by various Founding Fathers.)

[Congress] recommended [a day of] . . . thanksgiving and praise [so] that “the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and join . . . their supplication that it may please God, through the merits of Jesus Christ, to forgive [our sins] and . . . to enlarge [His] kingdom which consisteth in righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.”

24 Continental Congress, 1777 – written by SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION SAMUEL ADAMS AND RICHARD HENRY LEE

[I] appoint . . . a day of public Thanksgiving to Almighty God . . . to [ask] Him that He would . . . pour out His Holy Spirit on all ministers of the Gospel; that He would . . . spread the light of Christian knowledge through the remotest corners of the earth; . . . and that He would establish these United States upon the basis of religion and virtue.

25 GOVERNOR THOMAS JEFFERSON, 1779

[I] appoint . . . a day of public thanksgiving and praise . . . to render to God the tribute of praise for His unmerited goodness towards us . . . [by giving to] us . . . the Holy Scriptures which are able to enlighten and make us wise to eternal salvation. And [to] present our supplications…that He would forgive our manifold sins and . . . cause the benign religion of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to be known, understood, and practiced among all the inhabitants of the earth.

26 GOVERNOR JOHN HANCOCK, 1790

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An Irish blessing is coming your way today…

An Irish Blessing for you!!!

(Click on link above)

My thanks to my friend Janice for passing the above link along to me this morning, and so I’m passing it along to you in the hope that your day may be blessed and full of the joy and shalom peace of our Lord, including not just His peace, but also provision, and health, with nothing lacking or missing. 

In Yeshua’s name… Amen!!!

Skip Barland

The history behind Saint Patrick’s Breastplate:
It is a Christian hymn whose original Old Irish lyrics were traditionally attributed to Saint Patrick during his Irish ministry in the 5th century; however, it was probably actually written later, in the 8th century. It is written in the style of a druidic incantation for protection on a journey; and is part of the Liber Hymnorum, a collection of hymns found in two manuscripts kept in Dublin.
The words were translated into English verse by Cecil Frances Alexander in 1889 and set to two traditional Irish tunes, St. Patrick and Deirdre.
The hymn, also known by its opening line “I bind unto myself today”, is currently included in the English Hymnal, the Irish Church Hymnal and The Hymnal (1982) of the U.S. Episcopal Church.
 

It is often sung during the celebration of the Feast of Saint Patrick on or near March 17, as well as on Trinity Sunday.

The prayer known as “Faeth Fiada,” or the “Lorica of St. Patrick” (St. Patrick’s Breast-Plate) was first edited by Petrie in his “History of Tara”.

Scripture references may include Ephesians 6:10-17 (“God’s shield to protect me … from snares of devils”).

Saint Patricks BreastplatePrayer

I bind unto myself today
The strong Name of the Trinity,
By invocation of the same,
The Three in One and One in Three.

I bind this day to me for ever.
By power of faith, Christ’s incarnation;
His baptism in the Jordan river;
His death on Cross for my salvation;
His bursting from the spicèd tomb;
His riding up the heavenly way;
His coming at the day of doom;
*
I bind unto myself today.

I bind unto myself the power
Of the great love of the cherubim;
The sweet ‘well done’ in judgment hour,
The service of the seraphim,
Confessors’ faith, Apostles’ word,
The Patriarchs’ prayers, the Prophets’ scrolls,
All good deeds done unto the Lord,
And purity of virgin souls.

I bind unto myself today
The virtues of the starlit heaven,
The glorious sun’s life-giving ray,
The whiteness of the moon at even,
The flashing of the lightning free,
The whirling wind’s tempestuous shocks,
The stable earth, the deep salt sea,
Around the old eternal rocks.

I bind unto myself today
The power of God to hold and lead,
His eye to watch, His might to stay,
His ear to hearken to my need.
The wisdom of my God to teach,
His hand to guide, His shield to ward,
The word of God to give me speech,
His heavenly host to be my guard.

Against the demon snares of sin,
The vice that gives temptation force,
The natural lusts that war within,
The hostile men that mar my course;
Or few or many, far or nigh,
In every place and in all hours,
Against their fierce hostility,
I bind to me these holy powers.

Against all Satan’s spells and wiles,
Against false words of heresy,
Against the knowledge that defiles,
Against the heart’s idolatry,
Against the wizard’s evil craft,
Against the death wound and the burning,
The choking wave and the poisoned shaft,
Protect me, Christ, till Thy returning.

Christ be with me, Christ within me,
Christ behind me, Christ before me,
Christ beside me, Christ to win me,
Christ to comfort and restore me.
Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ in quiet, Christ in danger,
Christ in hearts of all that love me,
Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

I bind unto myself the Name,
The strong Name of the Trinity;
By invocation of the same.
The Three in One, and One in Three,
Of Whom all nature hath creation,
Eternal Father, Spirit, Word:
Praise to the Lord of my salvation,
Salvation is of Christ the Lord.

ISRAEL… God’s chosen people and the apple of His eye!!!

I will bless them that bless you and curse them

that curse you, saith the Lord God of Israel!

OUR BROTHERS AND CLOSEST MIDDLE EASTERN ALLY, ISRAEL, ARE AT IT AGAIN

(unknown source, but verified information)

1. Scientists in Israel found that the brackish water, drilled from underground desert aquifers hundreds of feet deep, could be used to raise warm-water fish. The geothermal water, less than one-tenth as saline as sea water, free of pollutants, and a toasty 98 degrees on average, proves an ideal environment..

2. Israeli-developed designer-eyeglasses, promise mobile phone and iPod users, a personalized, high-tech video display. Available to US consumers next year, Lumus-Optical’s lightweight and fashionable video eyeglasses, feature a large transparent screen, floating in front of the viewer’s face that projects their choice of movie, TV show, or video game.

3. When Stephen Hawkins recently visited Israel , he shared his wisdom with scientists, students, and even the Prime Minister. But the world’s most renowned victim of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s disease, also learned something, due to the Israeli Association for ALS’ advanced work in both embryonic and adult stem cell research, as well as its proven track record with neurodegenerative diseases. The Israeli research community is well on its way to finding a treatment for this fatal disease, which affects 30,000 Americans.

4.  Israeli start -up, Veterix, has developed an innovative new electronic capsule that sits in the stomach of a cow, sheep, or goat, sending out real-time information on the health of the herd, to the farmer via email or cell phone. The e-capsule, which also sends out alerts if animals are distressed, injured, or lost is now being tested on a herd of cows, in the hopes that the device will lead to tastier and healthier meat and milk supplies.

5. The millions of Skype users worldwide will soon have access to the newly developed KishKish lie-detector. This free internet service, based on voice stress analysis (a technique, commonly used in criminal investigations) will be able to measure just how truthful that person on the other end of the line, really is.

6. Beating cardiac tissue has been created in a lab from human  embryonic stem cells by researchers at the Rappaport Medical Faculty and the Technion – Israeli institute of Technology ‘s biomedical Engineering facility. The work of Dr. Shulamit Levenberg and Prof. Lior Gepstein, has also led to the creation of tiny blood vessels within the tissue, making possible its implantation in a human heart.

7. Israel ‘s Magal Security Systems, is a worldwide leader in computerized security systems, with products used in more than 70 countries around the world, protecting anything from national borders, to nuclear facilities, refineries, and airports. The company’s latest Product, DreamBox, a state-of-the-art security system that includes Intelligent video, audio and sensor management, is now being used by a major water authority on the US east coast to safeguard the utility’s  sites.

8. It is common knowledge that dogs have better night vision than humans and a vastly superior sense of smell and hearing. Israel ‘s Bio-Sense Technologies recently delved further and electronically analyzed 350 different barks. Finding that dogs of all breeds and sizes, bark the same alarm when they sense a threat, the firm has designed the dog bark-reader, a sensor that can pick up a dog’s alarm bark, and alert the human operators. This is just one of a batch of innovative security systems to emerge from Israel which Forbes calls ‘the go-to country for anti-terrorism technologies.’

9.  Israeli company, BioControl Medical, sold its first electrical stimulator to treat urinary incontinence to a US company for $50 Million. Now, it is working on CardioFit, which uses electrical nerve stimulation to treat congestive heart failure. With nearly five million Americans presently affected by heart failure, and more than 400,000 new cases diagnosed yearly, the CardioFit is already generating a great deal of excitement as the first device with the potential to halt this deadly disease.

10. One year after Norway ‘s Socialist Left Party launched its Boycott Israel campaign, the importing of Israeli goods has increased by 15%, the strongest increase in many years, statistics Norway reports.

In contrast to the efforts of tiny Israel to make contributions to the world so as to better mankind, one has to ask what have those who have strived to eliminate Israel from the face of the earth done other than to create hate and bloodshed?

The alliance between Islam, Shariah Law, and Nazi ideology…

Grand Mufti Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini and Adolf Hitler

Who was the Grand Mufti, Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini?


While in Baghdad, Syria al-Husseini aided the pro-Nazi revolt of 1941. He then spent the rest of World War II as Hitler’s special guest in Berlin, advocating the extermination of Jews in radio broadcasts back to the Middle East and recruiting Balkan Muslims for infamous SS “mountain divisions” that tried to wipe out Jewish communities throughout the region.

At the Nuremberg Trials, Eichmann’s deputy Dieter Wisliceny (subsequently executed as a war criminal) testified:

* The Mufti was one of the initiators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and had been a collaborator and adviser of Eichmann and Himmler in the execution of this plan. … He was one of Eichmann’s best friends and had constantly incited him to accelerate the extermination measures. I heard him say, accompanied by Eichmann, he had visited incognito the gas chamber of Auschwitz.

With the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945, the Mufti moved to Egypt where he was received as a national hero. After the war al-Husseini was indicted by Yugoslavia for war crimes, but escaped prosecution.

The Mufti was never tried because the Allies were afraid of the storm in the Arab world if the hero of Arab nationalism was treated as a war criminal.

 

Does Islam and Shariah Have More In Common With Nazi Ideology Than With Religion?

By Steven Simpson Monday, October 11, 2010

Since the atrocities committed on 9/11/01 by Middle Eastern Muslim terrorists in the name of Islam, people in the U.S. and West have debated whether Islam is “a religion of peace” or more of an all-encompassing totalitarian ideology cloaked in religious garb. Unfortunately, it appears that the Qur’an, Shariah, and the Islamic terrorist attacks of the last thirty years, indicate that Islam is indeed a totalitarian ideology engaged in an effort of world-wide conquest much like Nazism. The major difference being that Nazism was based on racial affiliation while Islam is based on religious affiliation.

The word “Islam” – contrary to popular belief – means “submission” and not “peace.” When Islam was founded by Muhammad ibn Abdallah in the 7th century, it conquered the Arabian Peninsula through bloody wars and conquests against fellow Arabs, and Jewish tribes. After the consolidation of Islam in Arabia, the Arabs quickly moved out to conquer the Persian and Byzantine empires, as well as parts of India, and subsequently Spain.  All was done under the sword or through discrimination. It was not done by peacefully proselytizing the indigenous populations.

A Brief Overview of Shariah

The holy book of Islam – the Qur’an – contains laws and commandments for the believing Muslim. It is also a book that is replete with references to war, conquest, and the treatment of non-Muslims.  From the Qur’an (primarily), and the Sunnah and Hadith (secondarily) came – amongst other principles – the exegesis (tafsir) and jurisprudence (fiqh) of how the laws, sayings, customs, and traditions of Muhammad were to be interpreted. Thus was born Shariah (meaning the “path”). Shariah is not a simple concept to explain (even by and for Muslims), but it can simply be equated with “Islamic law.”

Shariah dictates every aspect of a Muslim’s life – both private and public. It is a total system that not only encompasses the individual, but how the government should rule as well. Islam is therefore a religio-political entity and ideally guided by a caliph (“successor”) to Muhammad. However, the Caliph came to be something of a “supreme leader” as both the head of government and the head of religion. In short, there is no separation of “mosque and state” in an ideal Islamic setting.

While different schools of Shariah exist with various interpretations of the Qur’an, Sunnah, and Hadith, all see Islam and Muslims as superior to every other religion, and view non-Muslims as “dhimmi” (plural, “dhimma”) who are regarded as inferior to Muslims under Islamic law. It is the dhimma (namely Jews, Christians, and other monotheistic religions) who must pay the jizya and kharaj (poll and land taxes) because they do not recognize the Qur’an. They must also wear distinctive clothing (usually yellow for Jews, and blue for Christians.)

The Nazi-Islamic Alliance

During the 1930’s Muslims of all different nationalities (most notably Arabs and Persians) were very sympathetic to Adolph Hitler and Nazism. The reverse was also true. Hitler and Heinrich Himmler only had respectful things to say of Islam, and Hitler himself had said that it would have been better if Germany had possessed the “Mohammedan religion” rather than the “meekness and flabbiness” of Christianity.

At the same time, in the Arab world, Nazi-like movements began to spring up. There were the “Nazi Scouts” of Arab youth in British mandated Palestine (based on the Hitler Youth) the “Green Shirts” of Egypt, and the Syrian Social Nationalist Party. Even the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt was influenced by the Nazis in its political ideology, and many fleeing Nazis were warmly welcomed in Arab countries after World War II.

But Nazi ideology also had an effect in non-Arab Muslim countries, such as Iran. In 1935, Persia was renamed Iran (Land of the Aryans) and Reza Shah Pahlavi, the ruler of Persia/Iran had an open admiration for Hitler. There was also an Iranian Nazi party known as SUMKA with its own Nazi-like symbol. However, fears among the allies were so great that the British had Reza Shah deposed because of perceived German influence in Iran. Indeed, Churchill had at least on one occasion compared the Qur’an to Mein Kampf.

It was during this period, that the Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini sought out Adolph Hitler and other top Nazis in order to apply the Arab/Muslim “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” in the Middle East.  Hitler and Himmler were very receptive, and with the help of the Mufti, Himmler raised two Muslim Waffen SS divisions; one from Bosnia (Handschar, meaning “scimitar”), and one from Albania. There were also lesser known Waffen SS divisions made up of Muslims from the Soviet Caucasus. Hitler promised Husseini that once the Germans penetrated through the Caucasus, the “hour of liberation” for the Arabs would come.

How could devout Muslims ally themselves so willingly with a basically pagan, racist ideology like that of Nazism? The answer is simple. Nazism, like Islam, is driven by a dictatorial totalitarian system with a “leader principle” that divides the world into the “superior” and “inferior.” One can easily substitute the terms “Fuhrer, “Aryan,”  “Ubermensch,” and “Untermensch,” for “Caliph,” “Muslim,” “dhimmi,” and “kafir”. And there is also the concept of “jihad” in Islam which divides the world into “dar al-Islam” (house of Islam, where Muslims rule) and “dar al harb” (house of war, where “infidels” rule). And like Islam, which seeks the total Islamization of the world, Nazism also sought the total domination of the “Aryan” over the “non-Aryan” and the total extermination of the Jews. As previously alluded to, the wearing of yellow clothing was a Muslim invention, not a Nazi one. And there is also a genocidal Hadith that exists from the 7th century which speaks of a final war between the Muslims and Jews, resulting in the latter’s total annihilation.  This Hadith is quite openly spoken of in the Muslim world to this day, as is the boasting of Muhammad’s “ethnic cleansing” through murder and expulsion of the Jews living in Arabia.

The Final Chapter?

The Muslim attacks of 9/11 should have woken up America and the West to what Islam is – and isn’t.  Instead, the masses received from world leaders nothing but platitudes and compliments for Islam which George W. Bush constantly referred to as a “religion of peace.” And, of course, the words “Islam” and “terrorism” could never be mentioned in the same sentence.

Perhaps the real issue is not Shariah per se, but Islam and the Qur’an as a whole. While the world argues about “moderate” and “radical” Islam, fundamentalist Muslims plan the demise of the Western world and its Judeo-Christian concepts and values. Under the guise of “taqiyyah” (dissimulation), Muslims either seek the conversion of non-Muslims peacefully through “dawa” (the call), or more likely, through “jihad” (holy war).  In the words of convicted failed Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad, “Brace yourselves, because the war with Muslims has just begun. Consider me only a first droplet of the blood that will follow me.”

In the early 1930’s the free world made the mistake of dismissing Hitler’s words as mere threats and ravings. Will the West make the same mistake when continually confronted with Islamic terror?

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/28604

Our country today is in such a state of confusion; and as the Bible says it is Satan who is the author of confusion.

To the extent the Bible and faith in God has long ago been stripped from our public education system, we have today a mass of people who have been raised under these so called “Politically Correct” progressive ideology that elevated Secular Humanism as a god.

Also to the extent the media has become the chief propaganda tool for the Globalist International Bankers, who are the true power brokers and movers and shakers in our society, in that they long ago assumed controlling interest in the major news outlets in America, the general public has been lulled into a deep stupor and is none the wiser as to the real threat to our liberty that is being stripped right out from under their noses.

Case in point, who exactly is George Soros?

George Soros (a Hungarian born Jew and former Nazi collaborator) Invades Pentagon:

If the Republican leadership had any guts they would speak out about who really runs the Democratic Party, self-admitted  Nazi Collaborator, George Soros.  Unlike the Democratic charge, this one is true.

George Soros has always been the type of guy who went above and   beyond.  For example, this exchange between Soros and Steve Kroft happened on “60 Minutes”:

Kroft: “And you watched lots of people get shipped off to the death camps.”
Soros: “Right. I was 14 years old. And I would say that that’s when my character was made.”

Kroft: “In what way?”

Soros: “That one should think ahead. One should understand that—and anticipate events and when, when one is threatened. It was a tremendous threat of evil. I mean, it was a—a very personal threat of evil.”

Kroft: “My understanding is that you went … went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews.”

Soros: “Yes, that’s right. Yes.”

One can can understand Soros posing as a Christian to save himself; but he went above and beyond, became a collaborator and helped the Nazi’s steal from his doomed brethren. There, he claimed, is where he made his character. Soros took his learning and became convicted Insider trader, a guy who made 10 billion dollar off the British people through currency speculation, terrorist supporter and Israel hater.

http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/04/nazi-collaborator-george-soros-invades.html

Just who is this impostor, called Barack Hussein Obama (aka – Barry Soetoro), who is the current sitting President of the UNITED STATES CORPORATION?

Click on the link below and watch this 5 minute video and get your answer:


It was George Soros who was but one of the men who funded and mentored this foreign born, undocumented alien, who currently is sitting in the White House.

Who were some of the others?

The Early Mentors and Influences
Barack Hussein Obama Sr. – Barack’s father was an African socialist. While he was not with his son for much of Barack Jr.’s childhood, they did keep in touch through routine correspondence according to the memoir, Dreams From My Father.
 

Stanley Ann Dunham – Barack’s mother was a 60’s liberal feminist and an atheist – all the makings of a rebellious, 60’s-era, left-wing radical. There is little written about Barack’s mother and her political views, but from what is known, she was certainly on the left of the political spectrum.

Frank Marshall Davis – “Frank,” as Barack Obama refers to him in his book, Dreams From My Father, was a member of the Communist Party (USA). He was also a former community organizer in Chicago. As a youth, Barack was treated to many of Davis’ rants about white supremacy, white Christianity, and undoubtedly was aware of Davis’ pro-Soviet writings. In his memoir, Barack merely says he was “intrigued” by Davis.

Saul Alinsky – Mr. Alinsky was an avid and open socialist and the king of social activism, commonly called the “father of community organizing.” He created many organizations that relied on street agitation tactics, such as the Industrial Areas Foundation, which trained Obama in organizing tactics. He wrote the book, Rules for Radicals, which outlined many of the tactics used today in community organizing campaigns. Barack Obama worked with the Developing Communities Project and the Gamaliel Foundation – both inspired by Saul Alinsky’s tactics and socialist philosophy. Barack even wrote a chapter on community organizing in the book, After Alinsky. Saul Alinsky’s son, Lee David Alinsky, recently praised Obama on his ability to perform Saul’s tactics, saying that Barack “learned his lesson well.”

John L. McKnight – Referred to as Obama’s “community organizer mentor,” McKnight taught Barack about community organizing while they were both working with the Gamaliel Foundation – a Saul Alinsky production. John McKnight is also a former ACLU director and sits on the board of the National People’s Action (NPA), another leftist community organizing group. He teaches at Northwestern University  and he wrote a letter of recommendation to Harvard for Obama.

Radical Faith Testimonials

Reverend Jeremiah Wright – “Uncle J” was Barack’s former pastor and mentor at Trinity United Church of Christ. The philosophy of the Church is based on the teachings of James Cone’s black liberation theology. Cone admits that his theology is a mix of “black religion and Marxist philosophy.” Wright’s fiery anti-white, anti-capitalist, and anti-United States sermons landed him in a media controversy that eventually led to Barack’s denouncement of him in the spring of 2008, after 20 years of friendship. Wright had married Barack and Michelle and had baptized their two children. The pastor has also worked with Nation of Islam leader, Louis Farrakhan, and his church’s magazine, Trumpet, has given Farrakhan a lifetime achievement award with praise coming from Wright.

The black liberation theology that is practiced at Trinity is based on James Cone’s version of the religion. He has stated that Trinity represents the most accurate interpretation of his theology. Among the ideas expressed by Cone is the notion that “black religion and Marxist philosophy may show us the way to build a completely new society.” He also believes that “to be black is to be committed to destroying everything this country loves and adores.” Recently, reports have stated that Cone believes nothing Barack Obama has said or written in his books and speeches contradicts Cone’s black liberation theology. Obama has simply blunted the more “radical edge.” On the other hand, Reverend Wright seems to have a firm grasp on what his theology represents – and he was able to influence Barack Obama with it for 20 years.

Father Michael Pfleger – This seemingly out-of-place white priest with a predominantly black congregation in South Chicago has had a relationship with Obama for nearly 20 years as well. He has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in earmarks and foundation grants from Obama and has contributed to Barack’s multiple political campaigns. He had appeared on Barack’s campaign website under the “Faith” category, but he has since been removed. Much like Wright, Father Pfleger spews fiery racial sermons and gives his support and admiration to Louis Farrakhan. According to Wright’s Trumpet magazine, Pfleger also claims he “got very educated by the [Black] Panthers – very educated.”

Domestic Terrorism and Social “Reform”

William Ayers – Mr. Ayers is an unrepentant domestic terrorist and an anti-capitalist. He was a leader of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the 1960’s and one of the militant spin-offs, the terrorist Weather Underground organization. These organizations were comprised of communist (“small ‘c'”) and anti-capitalist radicals. Part of Ayers’ Weather Underground strategy was to align with black revolutionary organizations like the Black Panther Party because among other things, they felt “white America” exploited black people and they were taken to the military-like discipline exhibited by those groups. Their activities included bombing police stations, the Capitol Building, and the Pentagon. In recent years, Ayers has publicly stated that he is not sorry for what he did and wishes that he had done more. He has been photographed stomping on the American flag and says the idea that the United States is a fair and just nation “makes me want to puke.” He has also given speeches in Venezuela praising the efforts in education that the Hugo Chavez regime has been making…efforts that he has been trying to implement in the Chicago school system for decades.

Bill Ayers served for six years on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) with Barack Obama. Both men headed up separate branches of the CAC that worked together on project funding. He also served on the board of the Woods Fund with Obama for three years. In 1995, Ayers hosted the event at his house which would become the kick-start to Obama’s political career. In that “meet-and-greet,” Alice Palmer handed over her Illinois State Senate reins to Barack (more on that later). Ayers wrote a book on the juvenile justice  system which Barack endorsed warmly, then the two were on a panel set up by Michelle Obama to discuss the merits of the book and current (at the time) legislation on the subject – which both Ayers and Obama opposed, as well as Bernardine Dohrn. Barack also taught classes at the University of Illinois-Chicago, where Ayers is a faculty member. In 2002, the Black Radical Congress (BRC) hosted a panel discussion at the University of Illinois-Chicago called “Intellectuals in Times of Crisis.” Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, and three endorsers of the BRC were on this panel. Contrary to the protestations by the Obama campaign, Bill Ayers is more than “just a guy” who lives in Barack’s neighborhood.

Bernardine Dohrn – She is the wife of Bill Ayers and a former radical herself. Dohrn was the leader of the Revolutionary Youth Movement of the SDS and the Weather Underground. She was also a signatory of the Weather Underground’s “Declaration of War” against the United States. She was a communist (Marxist-Leninist) and is a convicted criminal for her actions in the violent radical groups she was involved with throughout the 60’s and 70’s, particularly the aforementioned bombings. Dohrn later obtained a position at Sidley & Austin, the law firm where Michelle Obama worked. Dohrn’s father-in-law, Tom Ayers, owned a company which had received long-time outside counsel from Sidley. She obtained her position at Sidley & Austin through Howard Trienens, a senior partner. Trienens, Tom Ayers, and Sidley partner Newton Minow, all served on the board of trustees at Northwestern University. Dohrn is now an adjunct professor at Northwestern.

Mike Klonsky – He was a Maoist, a former SDS national chairman (1968), and formed the “October League” when the SDS broke into several factions. The October League later became the Beijing-recognized U.S. Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), of which Klonsky became a leader in the 70’s, traveling to China and praising the Maoist leadership. He took over the Small Schools Workshop which was created by Ayers, when Ayers headed up the CAC in 1995. The CAC, with Barack as one of its chairs, continued to fund the Workshop throughout the CAC’s existence. Klonsky was also an official blogger for the Obama presidential campaign website in 2008.

Marilyn Katz – She oversaw security for the SDS, where she met Ayers. She was part of the Committee of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism, which organized the 2002 anti-war speech in Chicago where Barack Obama famously spoke out against the Iraq War. Katz is a signatory of the Progressives for Obama website and the founder of Chicagoans Against War on Iraq. She also happens to have played poker games with Judson Miner, the liberal lawyer who hired Obama upon his return to Chicago after graduating Harvard Law School. Obama met Katz through the Miner Barnhill & Galland law firm. Miner was also a law school classmate of Bernardine Dohrn at the University of Chicago in the 60’s. Katz has held fundraisers for Obama in her home and is a media advisor for the Obama presidential campaign.

Carl Davidson – He was a former leader of the SDS and a Maoist, like Klonsky. He was also one of the organizers for the 2002 anti-war speech. Davidson is the webmaster for the website, Progressives for Obama, which posts blogs from other 60’s radicals like Tom Hayden and Bill Fletcher, who created the website and its agenda.

Bill Fletcher – As mentioned, he was a 60’s radical (a Maoist) and is one of the creators of the Progressives for Obama website. While there is no evidence of a direct connection to the Obama campaign, he has endorsed the call of the Black Radical Congress along with Obama advisor Cornel West and has connections to others that are directly involved with Obama and his campaign.

Incestuous Relationships and Friendly Donations

Woods Fund – In 1993, Barack Obama became a board member with the Woods Fund. A man named Ken Rolling was a program officer with the fund at the time. During the late 80’s the Woods Fund gave grants to the Developing Communities Project, where Obama had worked as a community organizer. At the time, the Woods Fund was supporting the Chicago Local School Councils (LSC’s) which were created from the 1988 Chicago School Reform Act. Bill Ayers was involved with establishing these LSC’s along with his brother John, who was a leader in the LSC’s and became head of the Leadership for Quality Education (LQE) in 1993. The LQE was a group formed at the time of the Reform Act and was supported by a local business lobby that wanted to use the LQE as a means to train the LSC’s. Ayers joined Obama on the board of the Woods Fund in 1999 and they worked together there until 2002.

Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) – Bill Ayers played a seminal role in the creation of the CAC. One of the main goals of the Challenge was to build on the 1988 Reform Act and the LSC’s, which he supported and in which his brother was involved. In 1995, the CAC began its operations with Barack Obama as Chairman of the Board. Bill Ayers was co-chair of the Chicago School Reform Collaborative, one of three branches of the CAC – the Board being another. Ken Rolling was brought in from the Woods Fund as Executive Director. In the first year a $175,000 grant was awarded to the Small Schools Workshop which was founded by Ayers but control was turned over to fellow radical, Mike Klonsky, once Ayers began the CAC. Obama and Ayers worked together in the CAC from 1995 until its end in 2001. That year, the CAC came to an end but handed startup funds over to Penny Pritzker and the Chicago Public Education Fund (CPEF). Pritzker is now part of the fundraising operation in the Obama campaign. In 2003, the CAC’s own report admitted that the ultimate goal of the CAC – to improve academic achievement – was a failure. Regardless of the outcome, it is plain that the goals for Ayers and Obama were similar…and knowing Ayers’ past, it isn’t something that should be taken with a grain of salt.

Sidley & Austin – This is the Chicago law firm that brought in Obama as a summer associate in 1989. It’s also the firm where Michelle Obama worked and reportedly met Barack for the first time. Sidley had been outside counsel to Tom Ayers’ company, Commonwealth Edison. Howard Trienens, the partner that handled Commonwealth Edison, hired Bernardine Dohrn at Sidley. Trienens was on the board of trustees at Northwestern with Tom Ayers, Dohrn’s father-in-law, and Newton Minow, another Sidley partner.

ACORN – Obama has extensive ties to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, as do his two prominent spiritual influences, Wright and Pfleger. Obama’s Developing Communities Project and his “Project VOTE” campaign worked closely with ACORN. Both the Woods Fund and Joyce Foundation – where Obama sat on both boards – gave frequent donations to ACORN. He filed a successful lawsuit on behalf of ACORN to enforce the “motor-voter” law in Illinois. Madeleine Talbot, a former ACORN leader in Chicago, hired Obama to train her staff on organizing tactics. Talbot was arrested for a protest that broke into a Chicago City Council session in 1997. In return for training Chicago ACORN leaders in community organizing techniques, Obama received their help with his political campaigns. Obama had also joined with ACORN to try to overturn Indiana’s voter I.D. laws, but the Supreme Court rejected their complaint.

What is ACORN’s record? In St. Louis, eight local ACORN workers were indicted on charges related to voter fraud from fake information on registration forms in 2006. One of the eight pleaded guilty in March. Seven workers were indicted on felony charges in Seattle because of phony registration forms and some of the workers already had criminal records. Three workers pleaded guilty in 2007 and ACORN eventually settled the largest case of voter fraud in Washington State history, paying $25,000 in restitutions. Similar problems are being investigated in at least twelve other states. ACORN’s political action committee (PAC) has endorsed Barack Obama for president.

Notable Friends and Advisors

Linda Darling-Hammond – Currently an education advisor to the Obama presidential campaign, Darling-Hammond has some less obvious connections to the leftist agenda, so it will take a little longer to define them. She has writings and has supported the notion of an “education debt” which is said to plague minority communities. This concept is a product of another educator, Gloria Ladson-Billings. Ladson-Billings is one of the pioneers of the phrase “education debt,” which is apparently the by-product (at least in part) of a reparations agenda pushed by people like the factually-incorrect and racist, Randall Robinson and books like, The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks. In 2006, Ladson-Billings gave her Presidential Address to the leftist-tainted American Educational Research Association (AERA) in which she spoke about repaying the “education debt.” She also announced the selection of Darling-Hammond to the Association’s governing council that same week. As it turns out, Bill Ayers was recently elected as an AERA vice-president (but for some reason, he no longer appears on their website as a VP of curriculum studies.)

Darling-Hammond and Ladson-Billings also appear together in two different liberal education programs, the Forum for Education and Democracy (FED) and the Economic Policy Institute’s (EPI) “Bold Approach.” Both of these programs preach the concept of “social justice,” which seems to be code for socialist redistribution programs. And they both have more connections to Bill Ayers. Ladson-Billings has contributed writings for Ayers-edited books, she’s been a co-editor with Ayers, and wrote a forward to another of his books. Darling-Hammond, who has taken up the agenda of the two liberal programs, including the notion of the reparations-inspired “education debt,” and is a long-time member of the AERA, has also had her writings appear in an Ayers-edited book. Ayers obviously supports the liberal agenda of both of these educators, the two programs, and the AERA, as does Mike Klonsky, who is a co-signer of the “Bold Approach” agenda.

Laurence Tribe – Mr. Tribe was one of Barack’s professors/mentors at Harvard. He co-founded and is on the board of advisors of the American Constitution Society (ACS), a leftist counter to the Federalist Society. The ACS defines itself as promoting the “progressive” agenda in law. Mr. Tribe has been accused of plagiarizing in one of his books and believes animals should have legal standing to sue humans and businesses. He is on a short list of possible Supreme Court nominees if Obama wins the presidential election and is currently an advisor to his campaign.

Charles Ogletree – He is another one of Barack’s Harvard professors/mentors and an advocate for reparations for slavery, despite the fact that he believes reparations could cost the government trillions of dollars – and the fact that those trillions would come from the taxpayers, including other black people. He has also been accused of plagiarizing, like his colleague Laurence Tribe, and is currently an advisor to the Obama campaign.

Cornel West – Mr. West defines his political ideology as “non-Marxist socialist.” He is an anti-capitalist and honorary chair of the Democratic Socialists of America. He is a contributor/signatory to the Progressives for Obama website and has endorsed the Black Radical Congress’ (BRC) call for a “renewed struggle.” He appeared together with Reverend Jeremiah Wright on a panel called “Faith as a Weapon: Spirituality and the Role of the Church in the Radical Movement” hosted by the newly formed BRC in 1998. West was also involved in the Million Man March and has many other connections to the racist and anti-Israeli, Louis Farrakhan.

Alice Palmer – She is a former executive board member of the U.S. Peace Council (a communist front group), which is an affiliate of the World Peace Council (a Soviet front group). In 1983, she attended the World Peace Council’s Prague Assembly. Palmer wrote an article in the People’s Daily World – a CPUSA newspaper – describing how impressive the Soviet system was when she attended the 27th Congress of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. When she decided to give up her Illinois Senate seat in an effort to win an election for U.S. Representative, she identified Barack Obama as her successor in the State Senate. She held a “meet-and-greet” at the home of Bill Ayers for Obama’s introduction into the Illinois political arena.

Antoin “Tony” Rezko – The relationship between Obama and Rezko goes back to 1990. That year, Tony Rezko offered Obama a job with his housing development business, but Obama declined. They remained friends ever since and Rezko became one of Obama’s biggest campaign contributors. Over the years, Barack has obtained millions of dollars in grants for Rezko to build inner-city housing. However, many of these properties have been plagued by financial misdeeds and problems with infrastructure and maintenance. One project for a senior-citizens complex garnered $14 million for Rezko and his business partner, Allison Davis – an Obama fundraiser and former boss at the law firm then named Davis Miner Barnhill & Galland. At the time Obama’s letter was written asking for legislative support for the project, Cottage View Terrace, Obama was a lawyer with Miner Barnhill & Galland – the same law firm but without Davis as a partner. The firm had several companies owned by Rezko and Davis as clients, but not New Kenwood LLC which was in charge of Cottage View Terrace. Tony Rezko was recently convicted of several felonies involving corruption and kickbacks to various Chicago politicians.

In June 2005, Barack Obama and Tony Rezko purchased adjacent properties on the same day and from the same owner in Chicago. Obama paid $300,000 below the asking price while Rezko paid full price. At the time, it was already known that Rezko was under investigation for criminal charges. In January of 2006, Mrs. Rezko sold a ten foot strip of property to Obama. When asked about the questionable circumstances surrounding the purchase of the two properties, Obama apologized and said his actions were “boneheaded.”

Rashid Khalidi – Mr. Khalidi is a Palestinian political activist and a professor at Columbia University. For six years in Beirut, he was the director of WAFA, the official Palestinian press agency where his wife had also worked as chief editor of the English section. Mr. Khalidi has also worked with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) during the height of its terrorist campaigns in the Middle East. While in Chicago, the Khalidi’s created the Arab American Action Network (AAAN), an anti-Israeli group, and received $75,000 in grants from the Woods Fund when Obama and Ayers were on the board. Khalidi has also held fundraisers for Obama and the Obama’s have had many dinners at the Khalidi’s home in Chicago. Khalidi also started the website Electronic Intifada – an anti-Israeli site – with Ali Abunimah, another Obama associate. Both Khalidi and Abunimah have considered Obama a friend and ally to their cause.

Robert Malley – This former “informal” foreign policy advisor to the Obama campaign resigned in May 2008 due to allegations that he was meeting with members of the terrorist organization, Hamas. Malley dismissed his meetings with these contacts as simply being part of his job. But he is also anti-Israeli with a long list of op-ed articles – some co-authored by former Yasser Arafat advisors – with a revisionist slant and intent to denounce Israeli attempts for peace and security. Not surprisingly, Malley’s father was a fervent anti-Western, “Third-Worldist” who wrote about liberation “struggle” – leftist code for anti-capitalism and pro-socialist/communist movements.

Other Supporters of Obama and/or His Policies

  • Hugo Chavez – Venezuelan dictator
  • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – President of Iran
  • Fidel Castro – Cuban dictator
  • Party of European Socialists
  • Louis Farrakhan – Supreme Minister, Nation of Islam
  • Democratic Socialists of America
  • Communist Party USA (CPUSA)
  • Frank Chapman – Member of U.S. Peace Council Executive Committee (an FBI-identified communist front group)
  • Mark Solomon – National co-chair, Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism
  • Joel Wendland – Managing editor of CPUSA online magazine Political Affairs: Marxist Thought Online
  • Pepe Lozano – Leader in the Chicago Youth Communist League and editorial board member of CPUSA newspaper, People’s World Weekly

Closing Thoughts

These are not just associations. All of these connections are family members, close friends and “mentors,” and affiliations/organizations that Obama willingly participated with and in – and financially supported. If Barack doesn’t know about their past and their political ideologies, then he is oblivious to his surroundings and does not belong in the White House as the leader of our country. If he knew about these things but didn’t think they mattered, then he is beyond naïve and does not belong in the White House. If he knew about these things and openly welcomed it, then he’s just downright dangerous and does not belong on a local school board, let alone in the White House.

All of these incestuous relationships directly place Barack Obama deep inside the socialist/communist movements in Chicago. His plans and policies are radical and his associations and partners are mostly on the very far left of politics. Socialism and communism are not – and shouldn’t be – acceptable philosophies in this country, especially from a person running for president. This isn’t simply a matter of “guilt by association.” These relationships are long-lasting and ingrained into Barack’s political philosophy and ideology. There’s a reason why he will do anything and everything it takes to ignore, deny, or denounce every one of these associations once they are brought to the public’s attention.

Is this guilt by association? Not at all. These associations demonstrate a pattern of relationships with leftist radicals, criminally corrupt developers, and racially divisive activists. These relationships are not a matter of happenstance either. Barack sought out these groups from his early days. He did not grow up in Chicago – he chose to live there. His associations are a direct result of his decision-making and his chosen path to political power. He willingly participated in socialist-minded groups and worked with radicals and unrepentant criminals. He is beyond dangerous to this republic of ours and his policies are beyond destructive.

For all of the voters going to the polls in November to vote for change:

You have been warned.

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What is the answer to turn our country around?

First, America needs to turn back to the God of the Bible and of our forefathers, and repent!

Next, we need to all unit with this grassroots movement, already in progress and is moving forward, which I believe is totally inspired and backed by God, to take back our government; restore Constitutional Law as the highest law of the land; and reinhabit the Republic.

Shalom,

Skip Barland



What is an American?

What is an American?

Written by an Australian Dentist

To Kill an American

You probably missed this in the rush of news, but there was actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper, an offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.

So an Australian dentist wrote an editorial the following day to let everyone know what an American is… So they would know when they found one. (Good one, mate!!!!)

‘An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish, Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or Pakistani or Afghan.

An American may also be a Comanche, Cherokee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.

An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them chooses.

An American is also free to believe in no religion… For that he will answer only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for the government and for God.


An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the world.

The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each person to the pursuit of happiness.

An American is generous… Americans have helped out just about every other nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.

When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!

As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in Afghanistan.

The national symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty, welcomes your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed. These in fact are the people who built America.

NEW WORLD ORDER… the method to the madness that’s behind our government today!

The New World Order is next if we aren’t careful!!!

SEARCHLIGHT, Nev. — Listen as Sarah Palin addresses a Tea Party Rally last Spring – as thousands of protestors gathered on Harry Reid’s home turf, as temperatures heat up and tempers flare over wasteful spending from an out of control rogue Congress and this Obama Administration; as we are now looking towards the upcoming elections in November.

Let me start by saying I like Sarah Palin; I think she is a very intelligent and capable woman; but merely putting another Republican in office on a foundation that is already massively cracked and corrupt, and has been for over a hundred years, will not fix our problem, until we FIRST repair the foundation; which means we restore our original “organic” Constitution, and our Republic.

Unless we first do that then we are going to continue on this merry-go-round, doing exactly as we have in the past, and going in the same direction that is taking us to our ruin!

We need to get rid of the Federal Reserve Bank and its collection agency the IRS; we need to also remove ourselves from the United Nations; hold accountable all those in public office who have knowingly defrauded the American people, have broken our laws; have violated their oath of office; and have betrayed our country; and we need to do this from the top down, starting with Barack Hussein Obama; and most importantly we need to restore our Constitutional Republic!

Unless the American people are told the truth, and unless we are dealing with truth in any effort to rebuild our nation, then anything less than that will not succeed!

So let us start by restoring our original form of government just as it was first intended by our founding fathers; and then we need to elect honest people, like Sarah Palin and others like her to office; and get rid of the corrupt people we now have there; and give those who are left the opportunity to submit and join the Republic and promise to abide by our Constitution, or remove them from office as well.

For more on this movement to Restore the Republic, please check this website out: http://republicoftheunitedstates.org/.

We all have heard the legend of how in ancient Rome Nero played the fiddle as Rome burned, and also the analogy of polishing brass on a sinking ship; well right along that line the lights are certainly on in Washington DC, but it is all but obvious that no one is home.

In fact I think the whole crowd in DC, in this administration and congress, has gone completely mad; or rather I should say has been taken over by two of the oldest human weaknesses in history… which is personal lust and greed for more power and money!

I think it is a well established fact that bureaucrats, in order to give an excuse for their existence and in order to maintain their own job security, are always looking to create more and larger bureaucracies, and are always looking to generate more and higher taxes in order to pay for them.

They do this through socializing private industry; and by robbing from small businesses and entrepreneurs, through various and sundry taxes, fines, and fees.

While all the while these bureaucrats and their bureaucracies produce absolutely nothing and contribute nothing, except to leach on society and drain it of its strength!

That has been the history of ever socialist nation in history; and yet this administration would have us believe that a government that cannot even operate one Federal program in the black, but has run everything it touches into massive debt, that it somehow is going to fix all of our economic problems… problems which to a great extent they either caused or allowed to happen through their own mismanagement.

Well it should be obvious by now that is exactly the political game that Washington is playing today; and they are doing so to our own demise, as a sovereign country.

The question is, have they ALL gone completely mad, or is there a method to this madness?

I maintain that based on history, in what has happened to democratic republics in the past that all of this is part of a well thought out and long establish plan, conceived in Hell by Satan himself; and it is being implemented today by these International Globalist Bankers.

The goal is to cause our country to default and the U.S. Dollar to fail; in order to then be able to institute martial law; do away with our U.S. Constitution and all our rights; and hopefully force us to capitulate and to accept their New World Order; or else we would not be able to buy or sell, and our economy would come to a complete halt!

The danger and also our weakness and vulnerability, which by the way is another tactic of the enemy and is something he is counting on, is that many of our American citizens today are of the mistaken opinion that we are just too big to fail, and that something like that could never happened to us; and also given the fact that these same Globalist Bankers have long ago bought controlling interest in our three major networks, and also our press, most Americans have been programmed, via the media, to accept whatever they are told in the news; and if there is no story, there is no problem!

The biggest lie that has been accepted, that has gone on now for over 100 years now, is that we are still operating as a Republic, under our U.S. Constitution, which we are not at; and that is a fact of history which is readily verifiable on line and in the public records; and yet because it is never talked about by any of the major news media giants, people would rather believe it isn’t true.

So consequently what happens is there is so much division and controversy among so many different factions and groups, where obvious hoaxes and lies get mixed with truth, that the truth ultimately gets lost in all the confusion; and people who espouse such ideas and are trying to warn of impending danger and what is happening behind the scenes and what the ultimate agenda is, are thought of as fringe fanatical loonies or worse.

Well then, you can just score another major point for Satan’s side, because that is exactly what he is counting on.

Take a frog, put him in lukewarm water over a slow and mild heat and in time it will come to a boil; and that is exactly where so many of our citizens are today!

Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister, once said: National Socialism is a religion. All we lack is a religious genius capable of uprooting outmoded religious practices and putting new ones in their place. We lack traditions and ritual. One day soon National Socialism will be the religion of all Germans. My Party is my church, and I believe I serve my lord best if I do his will, and liberate my oppressed people from the fetters of their slavery (capitalism). That is my gospel.”

The same man also said: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

May God help us because that is exactly the same strategy, which the enemy has so successfully used in the past that is being used once again today in the United States… and so far it appears the American people are none the wiser!

As one example, I believe that this whole Islamic problem today, and also the whole immigration controversy in all the millions of illegal aliens who are draining our economy, all of this is being used by our Washington DC power structure for a reason, and that is to further destabilize and to help undermine our society.

Why would they want to do that?

For the same reason Hitler did, and that is once anarchy and civil unrest peaks, to have an excuse to declare martial law, in order to do away with both our constitution and our rights, and seize dictatorial control of our nation.

Listen to this Wallbuilders Live interview with Congressman Pete Hoekstra, from Michigan, who in 2004 was named Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

He is now serving as the top Republican, as he works to lead Congressional oversight on issues relating to the U.S. Intelligence Community as the United States defends itself against all threats.

In this interview with Wallbuilders Live (David Barton) he is discussing how Sharia Law is today threatening America:


Let us not be ignorant of Satan’s devices and mode of operation.

How on earth pray tell can we ever hope to be successful at fighting a war on terrorism if our leaders are afraid, or don’t want to, or refuse, to even acknowledge who the enemy is?

In the same way there was an alliance between radical Muslim groups and Hitler’s Nazi Germany, who fought alongside Nazi soldiers, there is also a similar union today between these same Globalist Bankers, who funded Hitler, and manipulated world finance; and they did this in a way that brought about both World Wars, and also the Great Depression, and all the while making money on both sides of both wars.

Who are these men who are doing this? Well it is the same group who today controls and owns our Federal Reserve Bank and international banking as a whole:

THE TEN MEMBER BANKS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE

All owned by the Rothschilds

  1. Rothschild Bank of London
  2. Warburg Bank of Hamburg
  3. Rothschild Bank of Berlin
  4. Lehman Brothers of New York
  5. Lazard Brothers of Paris
  6. Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York
  7. Israel Moses Seif Banks of Italy
  8. Goldman, Sachs of New York
  9. Warburg Bank of Amsterdam
  10. Chase Manhattan Bank of New York

Well I believe a similar evil alliance is happening today, in that to the extent the Islamic agenda disrupts our society and gets public attention, especially when you have terrorist acts either happening or being threatened in our inner cities, all of this serves the purpose of further destabilizing our society, all of which contributes to public unrest, anarchy, and fear among the people.

Add to that the illegal alien problem and you have a recipe for just the sort of atmosphere that was present in pre-Nazi Germany, that started with severe economic problems left over from WW I, massive unemployment, high inflation, and the constant devaluation of the German Mark, until it was worthless.

All of this gave way to a national socialist movement that seized control of private industries; and ultimately ended in a totalitarian dictatorship.

I maintain the same strategy is being used today, and thus far, from what I can tell, the American people are so distracted on issues regarding the economy and unemployment, and just dealing with their own problems, that they are not seeing the whole picture; in that the purpose of all of this is to undermine our freedom and to permanently destroy our Republic, in order to bring about this evil New World Order!

Pray folks, because we definitely need a miracle!

Shalom,

Skip Barland

MOM’S EMPTY CHAIR…

Here’s a story I think you will enjoy

I received the following story today from a friend, and I’m sending it out to all my friends.

If you are moved by this little story, if it touched your heart and if you agree with its message, then please keep it going, because there are many out there who need to hear this message, including myself!

Shalom,

Skip Barland

God awaits our homecoming and is longing to have fellowship with each one of His Children. The Bible says we are created for His pleasure, and so this isn’t a matter of our waiting for the sweet bye and bye either… Just open your heart and receive Him today!


And whatever trials and problems you are facing today, just remember this little song!


Mom’s Empty Chair

A woman’s daughter had asked the local minister to come and pray with her mother.

When the minister arrived, he found the woman lying in bed with her head propped up on two pillows. An empty chair sat beside her bed.

The minister assumed that the woman had been informed of his visit. ‘I guess you were expecting me,’ he said.

‘No, who are you?’ said the mother.

The minister told her his name and then remarked, ‘I saw the empty chair and I figured you knew I was going to show up..’ ‘Oh yeah, the chair,’ said the bedridden woman.

‘Would you mind closing the door?’

Puzzled, the minister shut the door. ‘I have never told anyone this, not even my daughter,’ said the woman. ‘But all of my life I have never known how to pray.

At church I used to hear the pastor talk about prayer, but it went right over my head.’

I abandoned any attempt at prayer,’ the old woman continued, ‘ until one day four years ago, my best friend said to me, ‘ Prayer is just a simple matter of having a conversation with Jesus .

Here is what I suggest. ‘Sit down in a chair; place an empty chair in front of you, and in faith see Jesus on the chair.

It’s not spooky because he promised, ‘I will be with you always’.

‘Then just speak to him in the same way you’re doing with me right now.’

So, I tried it and I’ve liked it so much that I do it a couple of hours every day. I’m careful though. If my daughter ever saw me talking to an empty chair, she’d either have a nervous breakdown or send me off to the funny farm.

The minister was deeply moved by the story and encouraged the old woman to continue on her journey. Then he prayed with her, anointed her with oil, and returned to the church.

Two nights later the daughter called to tell the minister that her mama had died that afternoon.

Did she die in peace?’ he asked.

Yes, when I left the house about two o’clock, she called me over to her bedside, told me she loved me and kissed me on the cheek.

When I got back from the store an hour later, I found her . But there was something strange about her death.

Apparently, just before Mom died, she leaned over and rested her head on the chair beside the bed. What do you make of that?’ The minister wiped a tear from his eye and said, ‘I wish we could all go like that.’

Prayer is one of the best free gifts we receive. I asked God for water… He gave me an ocean.

I asked God for a flower…. He gave me a garden. I asked God for a friend… He gave me all of YOU… If God brings you to it …. He will bring you through it.

  • In Happy moments… praise God.
  • In Difficult moments…. seek God.
  • In Quiet moments…. worship God.
  • In Painful moments…. trust God
  • And in Every moment… thank God.


The psychology of deception in the unfamiliar legalese jargon, and political doubletalk of our culture… and how it has been used to subvert and undermine our Constitutional Republic!

Our nation is in crisis… pray for our nation!!!

As this house of cards called the American economy is on the verge of collapse.



The Apostle Paul in his second letter to the Corinthian church (2 Corinthians 2:11) and the Master Himself (Jesus Christ) warned us to not be naïve, but to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves (Matthew 10:16).

We who have been raised in America, for the last several generations, have been conditioned and programmed by a totally secularized culture, and through our public education system, from our earliest youth, and owed to no small extent to the very strong and long established methodical influence of the media in our lives, through news reporting, advertizing, the entertainment industry, our music, and etc, we all to one extent or another have been dumbed down and conditioned to believe what we are told.

Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels (1897–1945), who was Adolf Hitler’s Propaganda Minister in Nazi Germany, has been credited with the following statement:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

Well for those of us who are Christians and have a biblical perspective, we know beyond any shadow of doubt that the source of that statement is in fact the “Father of Liars,” who is Satan, the Devil; and that characterization was given to him by Jesus Christ Himself (John 8:44).

It is unfortunate but true that this experiment that was begun (I believe) under God’s direction, in the establishment of our Constitutional Republic, by men and women who were predominately of the Christian faith, has over the years been taken over by unbelievers, among the atheists and agnostics of our society, with the result that now our country today is on the verge of collapse, both morally and economically; as our nation is going to hell in a hand basket!

Our nation has a very long and establish history of deceit and lies that has been perpetrated upon the American people by our politicians for over a hundred years, and these lies have been programmed into us since our earliest childhood; and again this is owed to no small extent to the influence of a this very powerful visual and aurally stimulating media, that has been dominated by Satan, that bombards us throughout our day in every form imaginable, through advertizing, entertainment, the music we listen to, and all the political rhetoric and deceit that is constantly being perpetuated through a dishonest and corrupt press and the electronic news broadcast industry.

This has become an obvious problem because when you try to point out the obvious facts to people, and this is true even with Christians, and encourage them to do their own research and homework in material that is readily available on the Internet, most of what you get is unbelief and sarcasm, and even sometimes ridicule. How can this be?

Well I believe it happens as our culture has drifted over the years from the Sacred to the Secular; and to the extent people stopped turning to the Bible and to their godly church leaders and pastors, as their gatekeepers on truth verses error, as did our founding fathers; and as people have drifted away from the God of the Bible and are no longer reading the Bible, discernment between good and evil and lies and truth has waned considerably.

Truly what Joseph Goebbels has said, in this evil strategy of the enemy to coerce and deceive through lies, has happened and has taken root here in America… and so what is the answer?

How do we get ourselves turned around and back on track with God?

How do we take back that which the enemy has over the years stolen from us?

Well I believe one main way this can happen, and I believe it is happening today (in answer to much prayer and intercession) is through what is going on in the Restore American movement, which is a grassroots movement to Restore our Constitutional Republic and our “organic” U.S. Constitution as the highest law of the land again!

It was a similar atmosphere of deceit and lies that dominated Colonial America that caused a relatively small group of Christen men to gather together in unity, predominately among their church community, and turn against the prevailing government of their day, which at the time, was mother England.

It was because of this unjust rulership and the unfair demands of a corrupt monarch that gave rise to this rebellion.

These were the grievances which our founding fathers had against mother England and King George III, as listed in the Declaration of Independence:

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

  • He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
  • He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
  • He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
  • He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
  • He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
  • He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
  • He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
  • He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
  • He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
  • He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
  • He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
  • He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
  • He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
  • For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
  • For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
  • For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
  • For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
  • For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
  • For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
  • For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
  • For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
  • For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
  • He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
  • He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
  • He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
  • He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
  • He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

It was not a coincidence that simultaneously, while suffering under this oppression, there was also birthing on a grassroots level, a spiritual awakening and revival among the colonists; that eventually gave rise to the Revolutionary War and our Independence from mother England; but that independence was unfortunately only to last for a short time, until against the warnings of our forefathers we allowed the interest and meddling of the International Banking cartel to control our central bank and our monetary system.

The main reason for our being in such a state as we are today is because of our ignorance of the truth; in that a good many people of our country just don’t know what they don’t know; and those who have been told don’t want to believe something like this could happen… but it has!

Folks, this is my point; we cannot even begin to rebuild our nation and restore our Constitutional Republic unless we tear down this house of cards, made of lies and deceit, and start over again on a foundation of Truth!

For us to merely elect another Republican Congress and president to office and think we have accomplish something is just a blatant lie and misconception; because all we will have accomplished is to return to the same old merry-go-round that our nation has been on for the last 100 years or more, that has brought us to this crisis!

Folks, we have to once and for all get off this merry-go-round of this corrupted two-party political system, between Democrat and Republican—which as Alan Keyes has so aptly stated has over the years become as two sides of the same coin, when it comes to this “New World Order” agenda; as the leadership of both parties are committed to that same end.

This becomes more than obvious as you look at the membership and names of people who belong to organizations such as the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the Skull and Bones society, and a host of other secret societies that are all front organizations for the Globalist International Bankers.

The point is, as you look to these organizations and as you look to who belongs to them, you see nothing but a who’s who list of names that represents both political parties; and the sole purpose of each of these secret organizations is to bring about this “New World Order.”


Unless we start by getting rid of the leaven in this corrupt and lying oligarchy system that has dominated both our political parties and also our country for all these years, then we have no chance for change, and we can only continue as we have, which will ultimately result in our complete failure and collapse, as we cannot keep spending as this administration is doing, and throwing worthless fiat Federal Reserve Notes at the problem, and think that somehow the laws of economics won’t apply to us!

The truth is the laws of economics will eventually apply to us too, just as soon as the rest of the world stops buying our debt instruments, and people like the Saudis stop trading oil in US Dollars and switch to a different currency, which I believe will happen soon; and when it does, our nation and this house of cards, called our American economy, will be more than tottering on the verge of default and failure, we will fail… that is unless “We the People” start now and take back our government and restore our original Constitutional Republic!

I want to encourage those of you who are Christians to pray for our nation, as per 2 Chronicles 7:14, and to continue to pray for an awakening and for revival to happen, because that is our ONLY hope to turn our nation and our people around.

For those of you who have yet to make a decision for Christ, and would like to learn how to become born-again, I leave you this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYIrhD-ZwCg.

And whether Christian or not, if you haven’t signed up and registered with the Restored Republic, please do so by clicking the link below:


In the meantime, let us ALL pray that God would have mercy upon us, and save our beloved country, called the united states of America!

Shalom,

Skip Barland

A message from the interim President elect Tim Turner given to the newly formed government of the Republic of the united states of America…


The legal and proper de jure Constitutional Republic has been formed…

(Note: the term “de jure” means legal according to the law, which is our “organic” U.S. Constitution)

The following message was given via conference call on October 7th to the newly formed government, by President elect Tim Turner, who is the interim president of the restored Republic of the united states of America:

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Know your history and let’s take back our Constitutional Republic:

Restored America History

This bold achievable strategy and plan for behind-the-scenes peaceful reconstruction of the de jure institutions of government, without controversy, violence or civil war is moving forward.

After a national vote and approval by the body of Republic Assemblies of all 50 states, the plan is now in the implementation phase to accomplish the following:

  • Restore and reinhabit the de jure institutions of lawful government.

  • End the foreclosure nightmare (for borrowing against one’s own credit).

  • End tax prosecutions for resisting the transfer of private wealth to such as I.R.S. (former Puerto Rico Bureau of Taxation).

  • End street assaults against the sovereign People for failing to exhibit a State-issued confession of subject-class citizenship.

  • End all prosecutions which lack an injured party.

  • End admiralty prosecutions for kidnapping and other heinous crimes against mankind as “commercial crimes” against the corporate State under a contrived corporate color-of-law venue (corp. ref. 27 C.F.R. 72.11).

  • End the use of covert contracts such as Form 1040, car registrations, birth certificate applications, and bank signature cards which confess the signer to be a legal fiction subject of the United States Federal Corporation (“U.S. person”) that has waved his/her rights in favor of state-issued privileges.

  • End the use of deeds which classify the People as “tenants” on their own land, thereby transferring control to incorporated County registrars and tax assessors.

  • End the perversion of marriage into a commercial system of state-issued privileges through the so-called “marriage license” whereby incorporated “courts” presume the “right” to trespass on families and kidnap children.

  • End the hijacking of automobile ownership through DMV registrations which covertly exchange the divine rights of travel and ownership for the state-issued “privileges” of “driving” and “title.”

  • In place of all of the above, substitute sovereign identification, diplomatic immunity and sovereign passports to facilitate safe passage throughout the world free from corporate State molestation and terror.

  • Restore the People’s money and wealth from the banking institutions, war profiteers, and international loan sharks.

  • Instantly vest all mortgages, auto loans and personal business loans “issued” by members of the Fed.  The state shall hold no paper on, or debts against, the sovereign People, directly or through its agencies and licensed banking institutions.

  • Instantly end all non-consensual and unlawful taxation including all taxes on the sacred rights of labor and privacy.

  • Empower and inspire the sovereign People to righteousness through such renewed abundance.

  • Issue orders to the military and police powers to enforce the Peoples’ divine rights of birth.

  • End the perverse act of requiring the People to pray to “courts” as is now required under corporate rules and traditions.

  • Restore the de jure judicial institutions including the district court of the United States and the one supreme Court.

  • Quietly mirror the strategies of 1933 thereby using their (our) institutions, military and public officials to undo eighty years of subterfuge without provoking alarm, controversy or armed conflict.

  • Forgive all corporate actors who repent for their State-sponsored crimes against mankind.  Remove the recidivists from office.

  • Do all of the above, and more, peacefully, discreetly, quietly and honorably, behind the scenes, without public proclamations or provocative actions against a general public that is mostly unaware of the hijacking of their free de jure American republics, and their hapless media.

Our nation’s history and the subversion of our Constitutional Republic:

The United States exists in two forms:

1. The original United States that was in operation until 1860; a collection of sovereign Republics in the union. Under the original Constitution the States controlled the Federal Government; the Federal Government did not control the States and had very little authority.

2. The original United States has been usurped by a separate and different UNITED STATES formed in 1871, which only controls the District of Columbia and its territories, and which is actually a corporation (the UNITED STATES CORPORATION) that acts as our current government. The United States Corporation operates under Corporate/Commercial/Public Law rather than Common/Private Law.

The original Constitution was never removed; it has simply been dormant since 1871. It is still intact to this day.

This fact was made clear by Supreme Court Justice Marshall Harlan (Downes v. Bidwell, 182, U.S. 244 1901) by giving the following dissenting opinion: “Two national governments exist; one to be maintained under the Constitution, with all its restrictions; the other to be maintained by Congress outside and Independently of that Instrument.”

The Restore America Plan reclaimed the De Jure institutions of government of the 50 State Republics in order to restore Common Law that represents the voice of the people and ends Corporate Law that ignores the voice of the people while operating under Maritime/Admiralty/International Law.

This occurred when warrants were delivered to all 50 Governors on March 30, 2010.

The rewritten Constitution of the UNITED STATES CORPORATION bypasses the original Constitution for the United States of America, which explains why our Congressmen and Senators don’t abide by it, and the President can write Executive Orders to do whatever he/she wants.

They are following corporate laws that completely strip sovereigns of their God given unalienable rights.

Corporate/Commercial/Public Law is not sovereign (private), as it is an agreement between two or more parties under contract.

Common Law (which sovereigns operate under) is not Commercial Law; it is personal and private.

To understand this document, you need to understand some basic terms. Visit www.usavsus.info for complete understanding. The basic terms are:

  • De Jure – Existing by right or according to law; original, lawful. Common Law operates under De Jure terms.

  • De Facto – In practice but not necessarily ordained by law; in fact, in reality. Corporate Law operates under De Facto terms.

  • Sovereign – A real person. Sovereigns can own property while Citizens/Subjects cannot. According to the original Constitution, all government comes from the Sovereign Individual. Without the Sovereign Individual, there is no government.

  • U.S. Citizen/Subject – A corporate fictitious entity that merely represents the real person. It acts as a “strawman.” [To call oneself a “sovereign citizen” or “sovereign subject” is an oxymoron, since “sovereign” and “citizen/subject” are mutually exclusive of each other.] When asked if you are a “U.S. Citizen” on corporate legal documents, if you check “yes,” you agree to the terms of Corporate Law and unknowingly relinquish your sovereign status and transfer all of your rights to the UNITED STATES CORPORATION since you are now under contract.

  • Corporation – A non-human, fictitious entity. Corporate fictitious entities are denoted in all caps. This includes the names of Citizens/Subjects. Your fictitious “strawman” entity is addressed in all caps, i.e. JOHN SMITH, rather than John Smith.

  • Common Law – God’s law. Common Law and the system of De Jure Juries apply to sovereigns in disputes. In Common Law, contracts must be entered into knowingly, voluntarily, and intentionally.

  • Admiralty/Maritime Law/International Law – The King’s law. Deals with criminal acts that only apply to international contracts. Under this law, the people are no longer sovereign. The Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) that the United States practices is based on Admiralty Law. Under the UCC, contracts do not have to be entered into knowingly. Simple agreements can be binding, and as long as you exercise the benefits of that “agreement,” you must meet the obligations associated with those benefits. If you accept the benefit offered by the government, then you MUST follow, to the letter,
    each and every statute involved with that benefit. That “benefit” is the Federal Reserve Notes (U.S. dollars). By paying for things with U.S. dollars you are unknowingly giving up all of your Constitutional rights and are legally obligated to follow all of the UCC statues. But you were NEVER told this.

  • Lawful – A term used in Common Law.

  • Legal – A term used in the UCC which applies to Corporate Law.

HOW THE CONSTITUTION WAS USURPED BY THE CORPORATION:

Note by Panama Legal: These are the basic premises adhered to by the people in the movement and the people in the Sovereign movement.

The Government is a Corporation actually functioning as the Federal Government. Thus it does not have to follow the constitution.

Also it does not matter if Obama is not a natural born citizen since it is a corporation he is the head of. The corporation gets the permission of the people to reign over them by deceit.

This is done by wording in the Birth Certificates, Social Security Cards, driving Licenses, IRS forms, Marriage Licenses and other documents.

They always refer to the “person” in all capital letters. This means the name represents a corporate entity.

This is how the corporation courts get jurisdiction over you. Their courts do not fly the “reaL” American flag. They use the military or admiralty flag. For a discourse on this try this website: http://www.usavsus.info/

What the theory is goes like this. When you enter a US Courtroom there is a military or admiralty flag flying. The US Military does not have the protection of the constitution; neither does this apply to admiralty laws with ships at sea.

When you enter a court room and cross through that little wooden gate they have and go to the area where the plaintiff (prosecutor) and defendant sit along with judge, court reporter, you are entering a “ship” or a foreign country as evidenced by the admiralty or military flag flying thus the constitution has no applicability and you are under equity law not common law.

The flaw with their scheme is that there is no full disclosure to the people about any of this.

This is a brief over simplified synopsis of the scam run by the federal corporation. End of our comment.


In 1788 (January 1), The United States was officially bankrupt.

In 1790 (August 4), Article One of the U.S. Statues at Large, pages 138-178, abolished the States of the Republic and created Federal Districts.

In the same year, the former States of the Republic reorganized as Corporations and their legislatures wrote new State Constitutions, absent defined boundaries, which they presented to the people of each state for a vote…the new State Constitutions fraudulently made the people “Citizens” of the new Corporate States. A Citizen is also defined as a “corporate fiction.”

In 1845, Congress passed legislation that would ultimately allow Common Law to be usurped by Admiralty Law. http://www.barefootsworld.net/admiralty.html explains this change. The yellow fringe placed at the bottom of court flags shows this is still true.

Before 1845, Americans were considered sovereign individuals who governed themselves under Common Law.

In 1860 – Congress was adjourned Sine Die – Lincoln could not legally reconvene Congress.

In 1861, President Lincoln declared a National Emergency and Martial Law, which gave the President unprecedented powers and removed it from the other branches. This has NEVER been reversed.

In 1863, the Lieber Code was established taking away your property and your rights.

From 1864-1867, Several Reconstruction Acts were passed forcing the states to ratify the 14th Amendment, which made everyone slaves.

In 1865, the capital was moved to Washington, D.C., a separate country – not a part of the United States of America.

In 1871, The United States became a Corporation with a new constitution and a new corporate government, and the original constitutional government was vacated to become dormant, but it was never terminated.

The new constitution had to be ratified by the people according to the original constitution, but it never was. The whole process occurred behind closed doors. The people are the source of financing for this new government.

In 1917, the Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA) was passed. This act was implemented to deal with the countries we were at war with during World War I.

It gave the President and the Alien Property Custodian the right to seize the assets of the people included in this act and if they wanted to do business in this country they could apply for a license to do so.

By 1921, the Federal Reserve Bank (the trustee for the Alien Property Custodian) held over $700,000,000 in trust.” Understand that this trust was based on our assets, not theirs.

In 1933, 48 Stat 1, of the TWEA was amended to include the United States Person because they wanted to take our gold away. Executive Order 6102 was created to make it illegal for a U.S. Citizen to own gold. In order for the Government to take our gold away and violate our Constitutional rights, we were reclassified as ENEMY COMBATANTS.”

In 1933, there was a second United States bankruptcy. In the first bankruptcy the United States collateralized all public lands.

In the 1933 bankruptcy, the U.S. government collateralized the private lands of the people (a lien) – they borrowed money against our private lands. They were then mortgaged. That is why we pay property taxes.

From a speech in Congress in The Bankruptcy of the United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993, Vol. 33, page H-1303, Speaker Representative James Trafficant Jr. (Ohio) addressing the House states:

“…It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m session June 5, 1933 – Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate

The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only.

The receivers of the United States Bankruptcy are the International Bankers, via the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

All United States Offices, Officials, and Departments are now operating within a de facto status in name only under Emergency War Powers.

With the Constitutional Republican form of Government now dissolved, the receivers of the Bankruptcy have adopted a new form of government for the United States. This new form of government is known as a Democracy, being an established Socialist/Communist order under a new governor for America.

This act was instituted and established by transferring and/or placing the Office of the Secretary of Treasury to that of the Governor of the International Monetary Fund. Public Law 94-564, page 8, Section H.R. 13955 reads in part: “The U.S. Secretary of Treasury receives no compensation for representing the United States…

Prior to 1913, most Americans owned clear, allodial title to property, free and clear of any liens of mortgages until the Federal Reserve Act (1913) “Hypothecated” all property within the Federal United States to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, in which the Trustees (stockholders) held legal title.

The U.S. Citizen (tenant, franchisee) was registered as a “beneficiary” of the trust via his/her birth certificate.

In 1933, the Federal United States hypothecated all of the present and future properties, assets, and labor of their “subjects;” and the 14th Amendment made U.S. Citizens the corporate property of to the Federal Reserve System.

In return, the Federal Reserve System agreed to extend the federal United States Corporation all of the credit “money substitute” it needed.

Like any debtor, the Federal United States government had to assign collateral and security to their creditors as a condition of the loan.

Since the Federal United States didn’t have any assets, they assigned the private property of their “economic slaves,” the U.S. Citizens, as collateral against the federal debt.

They also pledged the unincorporated federal territories, national parks, forests, birth certificates, and nonprofit organizations as collateral against the federal debt.

All has already been transferred as payment to the international bankers.

Unwittingly, America has returned to its pre-American Revolution feudal roots whereby all land is held by a sovereign and the common people had no rights to hold allodial title to property.

Once again, We the People are the tenants and sharecroppers renting our own property from a Sovereign in the guise of the Federal Reserve Bank. We the People have exchanged one master for another.”

In 1944, Washington D.C. was deeded to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the Breton Woods Agreement.

The IMF is made up of wealthy people that own most of the banking industries of the world.

It is an organized group of bankers that have taken control of most governments of the world so the bankers run the world.

Congress, the IRS, and the President work for the IMF. The IRS is not a U.S. government agency. It is an agency of the IMF. (Diversified Metal Products v. IRS et al. CV-93-405E-EJE U.S.D.C.D.I., Public Law 94-564, Senate Report 94-1148 pg. 5967, Reorganization Plan No. 26, Public Law 102-391.)

HOW CAN WE REPAIR OUR COUNTRY RIGHT NOW?

“The Supreme Court has said the De Jure Government offices still exist but the people have failed to occupy them.

Remember Downs v. Bidwell and the dissenting opinion of Justice Marshall Harlan?

He said that two national governments exist; one to be maintained under the Constitution, with all its restrictions. This is one that We the people need to force our elected public officials to occupy – De Jure rule.

We need to change that by organizing Grand Juries and putting our officials back under De jure rule and out of the Corporate (or Military) Rule that they are currently operating under.

Our elected officials will then have to operate under the limits of their Oath of office to uphold the U.S. and State Constitutions, circa 1860. When they violate the Oath it’s a capital crime.

The reason we go back to 1860 is because that is the last time we had lawful laws in this country.

Where do the people get their power to convene a Grand Jury? The Magna Carta, 1215.

Our Founding Fathers looked back to history for precedent when they decided they wanted to change their government.

What they found was the Magna Carta Liberatum, the Great Charter of Freedoms. It set a precedent that changed the face of England forever, by establishing that the King was not above the law.

King John of England signed the Magna Carta after immense pressure from the Church and his barons (the people). The King often lived above the law, violating both Feudal and Common Law, and was heavily criticized for his foreign policy and actions in England.

The Barons, with the support of the Church, pressured King John to spell out a list of their rights and guarantee that those rights would be enforced.

The Barons provided a draft, and after some negotiation, King John put his seal to the Magna Carta in Runnymede, in June of 1215.

Section 61 set rules for establishing the Grand Jury. It states: Since we have granted all these things for God, for the better ordering of our kingdom, and to allay the discord that has arisen between us and our barons (people), and since we desire that they shall be enjoyed in their entirety, with lasting strength, forever, we give and grant to the barons the following security: The barons shall elect twenty-five of their number to keep, and cause to be observed with all their might, the peace and liberties granted and confirmed to them by this charter.

If we, our chief justice, our officials, or any of our servants offend in any respect against any man, or transgress any of the articles of the peace or of this security, and the offense is made known to four of the said twenty-five barons, they shall come to us.”

http://republicoftheunitedstates.org/node/5

God’s message in His creation and in the stars… giving knowledge of his existence and directing the way to Salvation!

From the heavens above to the earth below, God is speaking to us through His creation, inviting ALL the sons and daughters of Adam to come and receive forgiveness for their sins, to come home and be reconciled through Jesus Christ, back into God’s eternal family!

Yes, the heavens have declared the Glory of God; and God in heaven has ordained that man should know of God’s existence through His handiwork and his creation; for the basic reality of God is plain enough, if we would but open our eyes and look!

By taking a long and thoughtful look at God’s creation, people have always been able to see what their natural eyes have not seen: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of God’s divine being.

So truly no one has a good excuse for ignoring the God of creation; and yet what has happened in the earth is that people knew God perfectly well, but when they didn’t treat him like God, refusing to worship Him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives.

They became puffed up in pride and pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding the Author of life; and they traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands for cheap figurines that you can buy in any five and dime store.

So God said, in effect, “If that’s what you want, that’s what you get!

And so man traded the true God for false gods, and worshiped the gods they made instead of the God who made them—the God we bless, and the God who blesses us!

(see Romans 1 – portions taken from the Message Bible)

God bears His heart in the Scriptures, and really the Bible (from Genesis to Revelation) is but God’s love letter to His creation, where He records the record of history of all He has willingly done to bring His lost and estranged children home.

Listen to this dialog and know God’s heart:
The Son of God speaks:
 

“As to why I permit myself to be blasphemed, I answer: It is written that when King David was avoiding his son’s persecution, a certain man cursed him along the way.

When his servants wanted to kill the man, David forbade them for two reasons: first, because he had a hope of returning; second, because he was mindful of his own weakness and sin and of the ignorance of him who had cursed him as well as of the patience and goodness of God. I am David, figuratively speaking.

People persecute me with their wicked deeds, like a slave who chases his master, and they throw me out of my own kingdom, that is, out of the soul that I created and that is my kingdom.

Then they find fault with me, like a criminal finds fault with his sentence, and they even blaspheme against me, because I am patient.

Because I am meek, I suffer their foolishness. Because I am the Judge, I wait for them to convert until the very last moment.

Finally, since people in general believe more in falsehood than in truth, and love the world more than me, their God, it is no wonder if the wicked are tolerated in their wickedness, for they wish neither to seek the truth nor to recover from their wickedness.”

“When there is fire in a house, a vent hole is needed to let out the smoke and allow the inhabitant to enjoy the heat.

Likewise, for anyone who desires to keep my spirit and my grace, habitual confession is useful in order to let out the smoke of sin.

Although my divine spirit is in itself unchangeable, nevertheless it quickly withdraws from the heart that is not protected by the humility of confession.”

Again Christ speaks to his bride and says that the prayer of people who take their pleasure in carnal and earthly delights, neglecting heavenly desires, charity, and the memory of his passion and of eternal judgment, is like the sound of colliding stones, and they will be thrust away with loathing from God’s sight like an abortion or an unclean menstrual cloth.

Then there was a man was singing: ‘Deliver me, O Lord, from the unrighteous man!’ His voice is in my ears like the sound of two stones struck together. His heart calls to me as if with three voices.

The first voice says: ‘I want to have my will in my own control, to sleep and to rise and to talk of pleasant things. I shall give to nature what it craves. I want money in my purse, soft clothes on my back. When I get these and similar things, I count them a greater happiness than all other gifts and the spiritual virtues of the soul.’

His second voice says: ‘Death is not too hard, and the judgment is not so severe as is written; harsh threats are made as a warning, but mild punishments are given out of mercy. Therefore, so long as I can have my will in the present, let my soul make its passage as best it can in the future.’

The third voice says:
‘God would not have redeemed us, if he had not wanted to give us heavenly things, nor would he have suffered, if he had not wanted to bring us back to our fatherland.

Indeed, why did he suffer? Or who compelled him to suffer? Of course, I do not understand heavenly things except by hearsay, and I do not know for sure whether I should trust the Scriptures.

If I could only have my will, I would have it instead of the heavenly kingdom.’ You can see what that man’s will is like and why his voice is like the sound of stones in my ears.

But, o friend, I answer your first voice: Your way does not tend toward heaven, nor is the passion of my love to your taste.

Therefore hell lies open for you, and, because you love the low things of the earth, you will go to the regions below.

I answer your second voice: Son, death will be hard for you, judgment unbearable, and flight impossible, unless you mend your ways.

I tell your third voice: Brother, I did all my works out of love in order that you might become like me and so that, after having been turned away from me, you might return to me. But now my works are dead in you, my words are burdensome, and my way is neglected.

What awaits you, therefore, is the torment and company of demons, because you turn your back on me, you trample underfoot the signs of my humility, and you do not consider how I stood on the cross in your sight and for your sake.

I stood there in three ways for your sake.

  • First as a man, whose eye a dagger would penetrate;
  • Second, as a man whose heart would be pierced by a sword;
  • Third, as a man whose every limb would shake with the pain of pressing affliction.

My passion indeed was more bitter to me than a puncture in the eye; yet I suffered it out of love.

My mother’s sorrow moved my heart more than my own, yet I bore it.

All my inner and outer parts, too, shook for a long time from pressing pain and suffering, yet I did not give up nor retreat.

Thus I stood in your sight, but you forget and neglect and scorn it all.

You will therefore be thrust away like an abortion and a menstrual cloth.”

(Book 5: The Book of Questions/Revelations ~St.Bridget)

God’s voice cries out to the sons and daughters of Adam down through the centuries, calling them to come home. God has even wound up and fashioned this world and the heavens above infinitely finer and more intricate than your finest and most expensive Swiss watch; and He has set its movement in motion in order to mark the times and seasons; and it is through this movement of stars and constellations, each with its own named, that God has ordained a message for all the sons of man to know!

As one possible example, there has been much to do lately about the year 2012, as being a very significant and important year for any number of reasons, as though we are coming to the close of on age (or dispensation), and the beginning of another.

It is not just Christians and fringe religious mystics, mind you, who are talking about this either; but astronomers are seeing a change in the heavens, much as the Wise Men from the east did, after having been schooled in the teachings and prophecies of the Prophet Daniel, in his mathematical prophecy which is found in Daniel 9:24-27.

This prophecy of Daniel actually numbered the exact number of days from the time the degree was given to rebuild Jerusalem, after Israel’s 70 year Babylonian captivity (and after you do the math, it works out to be 69 weeks of 360-day years = 173,880 days), until the Messiah would reveal himself; but it doesn’t end there, because Daniel then goes on to say that Messiah would be cut off (killed) for the sins of His people; and that after that, Jerusalem would be destroyed a second time.

The first time when Jerusalem was destroyed happened when Nebuchadnezzar conquered Israel; and the second time in history was when the Emperor Titus Flavius Vespasianus destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD.

So based on this prophecy of Daniel, Messiah had to come before 70 AD., as the Passover Lamb; in order to provide atonement for the sins of the people, of all those who would receive and believe in Him through FAITH!

All of this was recognizable and was predicted long in advance through Daniel’s prophecy; but God has also aligned the movement of the heavens to converge as a sign of this glorious event; and that sign is believed to be the convergence of three stars that lined up and made one bright light in the evening sky, brighter than all the others; and it was that star that lead the wise men to where Jesus was born!

So based on this amazing prophecy and its accuracy, could there also be another sign in the heavens that will indicate another significant and important event that is to happen in 2012?

Well based on my knowledge of the Bible, of astronomy, and also of history, I think it is very likely that we are approaching a galactic alignment; and what exactly the year 2012 could possibly mean in all of this, I don’t know, except to say that strictly from a scientific and astronomical point of view, it certainly appears, according to the position and movement of God’s time clock, that we are moving into a new era of some kind around the year 2012.


It is predicted by some scientists that our sun will pass through the galactic center (plain), from earth’s vantage point, on Dec 21, 2012, which is when the Mayan calendar “ends” (and is also the winter solstice begins).


The Mayan Calendar is but one of many reasons why significance is being drawn to this event; but regardless of what source we look to, unlike the Y2K scare that went around at the turn of the century, there appears to be definite scientific and astronomical reasons for why the year 2012 may be significant.

Check this video out:


We shall see…

Shalom,

Skip Barland