Just want to let you know that my latest article, The Way to God, is now published on ezinearticles.com. In this article, the subject of antichrist is addressed, and a number of other pertinent issues. In the new and everlasting covenant of Jesus Christ is the high way of God. It is especially designed by God to place us on higher ground. In the grasp of the new covenant we enter God's place of higher awareness. It is there that we find our true home with God.
It is also there that the Holy Spirit of God constantly abides and fellowships with us, instructing us on godly behavior. The Christian faith is not a list of do's and don't's. It is a living relationship with our living Lord who shows us his own ways, and leads us along his own paths of righteousness as we are regenerated from within by his own hand.
This article is posted under "religion", a subdivision of "news and society" in ezinearticles.com

Don't Forget to Listen.

The most special insights and helps come from God, and they come in the special way that God has designed for us to receive them and to benefit the most from them. John H. Groberg said: "We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of." Don't give up on God. Even though we are in a great time of darkness today, God still has his own special plan to take us through, if we are only willing to go and follow his good way in his dear Son, our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. He has given us all good things in Christ and in his blessed Covenant. But first we must listen carefully and intently in the direction where He leads us, and has led us. Then the doors open to us that take us into his special place of extreme and bounteous blessings. It is so very true that He is the way, the truth, and the life (Jo. 14:6). Here are some other websites that you may surely find enjoyable and helpful.
http://www.usasurvival.org/
http://www.mountzion.org/
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
http://www.prophetic-word.org/
http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/
http://www.freedomtofascism.com/
http://www.trunews.com/
http://www.truenews.org/http://www.wagthedog2010.com/
http://www.cuttingedge.org/
http://www.prisonplanet.com/
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/video.aspx?v=GdkUSU8zpr
http://www.greaterthings.com/
http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/ .
http://www.iwantyourmoney.net/
http://www.brasschecktv.com
Be sure to go into hiChuck's archived columns and read his Thanksgiving Prayer. It is so very true in modern America. What a shame! He has some other great posts there also!
BrasscheckTV. Do the Google search, join for free, then be sure to search out the video entitled Fall of the Republic. It runs about 2 1/2 hours. Spread the word, however you can. This video is really helpful, because it lays the whole problem out before us in quite a brief space. It can be a very useful tool to help turn things around, providing the American people are finally interested in getting serious about what is really happening, and how they can be a part of the solution, instead of remaining part of the problem!
http://www.americanvision.org/
http://wallbuilders.com/
http://givemeliberty.org/
Please be sure to check out the other entries on this blog, esp. for the month of October. And have you checked out There Is A Kingdom yet? If not, what are you waiting for? You will never find a richer storehouse of blessings than this book opens up for you. All you need to do is just listen, and the still small voice of God will lead you to seek and find. And you will find God's rich and profound redemption as given to us in his New Covenant, direct from God to you and me. Truly a remarkable spiritual breakthrough to provide you with the many good things that God will let you have, when he takes you by the hand and leads you into his secret place that you never knew existed, or was there, not so far away at all! This amazing breakthrough book is available on Amazon.com.
Also of special importance to true Christians who should be very concerned about the Israeli-Palestinian issue, here is some vital information that you shouldn't miss, from We The People Congress. This addresses the important issue re. Why They Attacked Us On 9/11. Bin Laden: In His Own Words. His words are the same ones that our government has repeatedly rejected. It is critically important that We The People begin to pay attention. Here are the two links: http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/UPDATE/Update2007-05-07.htm
http://www.givemeliberty.org/FreedomDrive/Redress/PetitionAidToIsrael.htm

America is in Very Serious Trouble.

George Orwell said it very well. "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever." This is what America has now come down to, as we face a future with Marxist-Communist-loving leaders who can't wait to march us all into that totally depraved life style of the new world order. Indeed, animals on a farm might have it better than humanity if our current leaders hold full sway, as they will, it seems, since you refuse to wake up!
Americans, and especially American "Christians", have failed to do their homework in the sacred Scriptures, and in our Constitution, but now, one set of Scriptures will become indellibly imprinted on their minds, and they need to pay full attention, for the day of reckoning is close at hand. It is just as Rev. David Meyers stated in the opening of his November Newsletter at http://www.lasttrumpetministry.org/
The Lord says: "I called to you often, but you didn't come. I reached out to you, but you paid no attention. You ignored my advice and rejected the correction I offered. So I will laugh when you are in trouble! I will mock you when disaster overtakes you--when calamity overcomes you like a storm, when you are engulfed by trouble, and when anguish and distress overwhelm you.
I will not answer when they cry for help. Even though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me. For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the Lord. They rejected my advice and paid no attention when I corrected them. That is why they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way. They must experience the full terror of the path they have chosen. For they are simpletons who turn away from me--to death. They are fools, and their own complacency will destroy them. But all who listen to me will live in peace and safety, unafraid of harm" (Prov. 1:24-33. NLT See also 3:21-26).
If you are truly concerned, you would do well to check out Glenn Beck's program on Fox News Channel on cable. It airs at 5:00 pm et weekdays. Also repeats of program are available at 2:00 am and 3:00 and 9:00 pm on Saturdays. Glenn is an excellent teacher, and very enjoyable as well, so be sure to check him out if you love this great country!
Another great website to check out is givemeliberty.org

New Websites and Tools of help for Christians.

Some more additional sites to visit for helpful input include the following. These include info on the collapse of the U.S. dollar and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. These are important issues for every Christian patriot to work with and to spread the word on. Just get them out there everywhere you can to get things moving forward for God and country. Thank you so much!
Go to The Watchman's Cry, A Herald to Prepare -- http://www.watchmanscry.com/audio.html Click on there a new audio sermon #140 -- Lament for the coming sorrow! A serious prophetic warning... Sermon runs over an hour, It is highly activist oriented. I think you will enjoy it, and it is good information to get to all of the sleepy Christians out there!
http://www.israel-palestinenews.org/2009/10/michigan-public-radio-censoring.html From If Americans Knew. Far more responsible and objective coverage of the conflict than most Americans are accustomed to. And they could use your help also in getting the truth out there! If we do love the God of the Bible, then we won't let these things slip by.
One more reason why Israel does not have the glorious future in store that modern fundamentalist Christians claim it is supposed to have. Go to ezinearticles.com. Do a quick search there under Anita Whalley's article "What About a Glorious Modern Theocratic Kingdom in Israel?"

An Examination of Daniel's Prophecy by H. C. Heffren

The enclosed valuable treatise is reproduced for the benefit of all concerned Christians whose primary desire and goal is the finding of God and his real truths as established in his holy,inspired Word. May it offer each Christ-honoring Christian new spiritual breakthroughs as the Word of truth penetrates our darkness and sheds God's heavenly light into the darkest recesses of our being. And always keep in mind, the pen is mightier than the sword. --Anita.
An Examination of
Daniel's Prophecy
H. C. Heffren
"SEVENTY WEEKS ARE DETERMINED…"
--Daniel 9:27
The prophecy that is about to engage our attention is found at Daniel 9:24-27. Although our readers may have pondered it many times, sometimes with perplexity and frustration, basically its message is not difficult. We have to admit that it has been the source of conflicting opinions and interpretations, still it is part of God's Word and therefore we should search for the message it seeks to convey. This will be both rewarding and enlightening.
The passage reads as follows: "Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and the prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even unto the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."
Although this passage of Scripture has presented a great variety of opinions and different interpretations among theologians and scholars, there are basically only two major irreconcilable dissimilarities. On the one hand, there are those who accept the prophecy as totally fulfilled. These are often called Amillenialists, but a more appropriate designation would be Scriptural Millenialists, since they regard the Kingdom of God which was inaugurated by Christ as the Scriptural fulfillment of the promises made to the fathers in the Old Testament. The Dispensationalists on the contrary, claim that Daniel's 70th week is in the future, and will begin when the so-called Rapture takes place. In order to do this, they have originated what is called the Postponement Theory, which means that the first sixty-nine weeks of Daniel happened on schedule, but the Seventieth Week was postponed or put in abeyance indefinitely. The Church Age, according to them, is called "The Great Parenthesis", according to H. A. Ironside and many others.
H. A. Ironside portrays the prophets as men standing on the prairie, gazing at the distant mountains. They see the first range of mountains, and dimly see the more distant peaks, but they do not see the intervening valleys that separate them. This, says Dr. Ironside, is like the prophets who saw the First Coming of Christ, and also the Second Coming, but they did not see the Church Age that intervened (The Great Parenthesis, p. 12). What Mr. Ironside fails to reveal is that the prophets were not telling just what they saw, as men standing on the prairie, but as we read in 2 Peter 1:21, "For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." In view of the fact that the Bible was divinely inspired, any suggestion that the prophets were less than 100% accurate in their predictions reflects on the Holy Ghost, the Inspirer.
It is in that connection that the interpretation of the Dispensationalists is violently and diametrically at variance with the Word of God. For instance, in Ironside's book (The Great Parenthesis, page 23), he tells of the prophecy of Daniel, then adds, "The fact is, they were not fulfilled." But Jesus said, "These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, concerning Me" (Lu. 24:44-53). Although we have only made one quotation, we can add scores of others. Whose word has authority, Ironside and Dispensationalism, or Christ? Christ said He fulfilled ALL that the prophets had written. Ironside said He didn't. This is serious and needs to be thoroughly investigated.
Now on p. 23 of this book by Ironside, I quote: "The fact is, they were not fulfilled. Israel did not recognize their Messiah. They do not know Him yet as their Sin-Bearer. Their transgression has not been finished. An end to sins for them has not been made. They do not know anything yet of atonement for iniquity." There is a Scriptural answer to each of the above assertions. The Jews "finished" their transgression when they crucified Christ. That was their crowning offense. The enormity of the crime of condemning Christ to death on the cross cannot be exceeded, and therefore it "finished" their transgression. Ironside says, "They do not know anything yet of atonement for iniquity." The Bible says, "He came to his own but his own received him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name." Atonement for all mankind has been made, and when we believe it , that is what makes us sons of God. Those who reject Him, neglect Him or refuse Him, are still among those "who receive Him not; but the Atonement or death of Christ for us was made for whosoever believes, John 3:16.
Ironside continues, "The Seventieth Week has been postponed by God Himself…the moment Messiah died on the cross the prophetic clock stopped. There has not been one tick on that clock for nineteen centuries. It will not begin to go again until the entire present age has come to an end, and Israel will once more be taken up by God." There are a few questions that ought to be asked here. Where does the Scripture say unambiguously that God postponed the Seventieth Week? What clock was God using that stopped? What has Israel got to do to start the clock ticking again?
A lot of these questions appear senseless, but they are based on Dispensational claims. They say that God postponed the Seventieth Week. The various meanings in Roget's Thesaurus state that postpone means: to delay, defer, procrastinate, suspend, waive, table, shelve, reserve, etc. According to Deut. 22:18, God does not permit any of these interpretations to accompany a prophecy He has determined. If God has anything to do with it, it must be executed on time or we can deem it false. God did give the Covenant He promised in the Seventieth Week of Daniel according to His infallible Word. Dispensationalism rejects this and says, "Another covenant with the Antichrist is required to fulfill their interpretation of the prophecy." Who is right?
Dispensationalists anchor their entire system of interpretation on what they call the Postponement Theory. According to Webster, a theory is an unproved assumption, or a hypothesis accepted for the sake of argument. This meaning is amplified elsewhere to include a surmise, supposition, conjecture, speculation or proposal. Neither "postponement" nor "theory" have anything authoritative to rest upon. In the last analysis, it amounts to a shrewd guess. John Walvoord, in his book called The Millennial Kingdom, p. 227, admits this weakness as follows: "While the most literal interpretation of the first sixty-nine weeks is thus afforded a literal fulfillment, nothing can be found in history that affords a literal fulfillment of the last seven, or the Seventieth Week (italics mine). It has been taken by many that this indicated a postponement of the fulfillment of the last seven years of the prophecy to the future preceding the second advent. If so, (italics mine), a parenthesis of time involving the whole present age is indicated." The issue is simple. Either we accept the statement of H.A. Ironside, "The fact is, they (i. e. the prophecies of Dan. 9:24-27) were not fulfilled;" or we accept Christ's statement that "all was fulfilled" (Luke 24:44). Either we build our theology on Walvoord's dispensational unproved hypothesis or we build on "Thus saith the Lord." There is no other alternative.
Let us examine the first statement, Walvoord says, "While the most literal interpretation of the first 69 weeks is thus afforded a literal fulfillment…" Please note that the first 69 weeks only measured a period of time, viz., 483 years until the baptism of Christ, or, as Daniel says, "until Messiah the Prince" or the Anointed. The opening words of Jesus when He began His ministry were, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed Me…" (Luke 4:18a). The first 69 weeks literally described the return of the Jews from Babylon and the rebuilding of Jerusalem during the first seven weeks. The remaining 62 weeks is only a space of time until the 70th week. Everything in the prophecy hinged on the specific and detailed fulfillment of the 70th week. 7 + 62 + 1 = 70.
Dispensationalism falls into a very embarrassing and fatal trap at this point. John Walvoord writes in The Return of the Lord, p. 49, "For the purpose of the present study…we must assume the inspiration of Scripture and the validity of infallibility of its revelation…" Elsewhere, the same writer goes on record in favor of the inerrancy, infallibility and the inspiration of the Scriptures. On p. 124 of The Millennial Kingdom, he states, 'Premillenialism is based on the infallibility of the Scriptures." Infallibility means "incapable of error, that which is certain, reliable, decisive, conclusive, unerring, to be depended on, trustworthy." It is unimpeachable. It is faithful, constant, precise and authentic.
Now notice how Dispensationalism discounts the infallible Word of God. God's infallible Word says, "Seventy Weeks are determined." That is God's decree. But because Dispensational doctrine finds, "nothing in history that provides a literal fulfillment of the Seventieth Week, therefore it dictates a postponement." At this point, they exchange God's infallible Word that is inspired by the Holy Ghost for man's unproved assumption. Notice that they do not even offer a Scriptural authority for their postponement, for there is none. They simply say, "If so, a parenthesis…is indicated." That is the biggest IF in Dispensationalism, where they discard God's infallible Word in favor of man's conjecture and supposition. Dispensationalism is built on supposition. If they are wrong and God's Word is right, their entire citadel of error crashes.
In Ironside's book, The Great Parenthesis, p. 25, quote: "Strange is it that many have supposed it was the Prince Messiah Himself who was to confirm a covenant for one week. But when did He ever make such a covenant? The blood of the covenant which He shed upon the cross is not to confirm a covenant for seven years, but it is the blood of the everlasting covenant." It is interesting to note here, that Dispensationalists do admit that there was a covenant ratified by Christ during the Seventieth Week. But they, and the Jews, reject this covenant, although it was "everlasting," as the fulfillment of Dan. 9:24-27. Again they substitute their interpretation for God's infallible Word.
We shall illustrate this point by a further quotation from The Millenial Kingdom, p. 133: "Daniel's seventy weeks are subject to literal interpretation even though the interval between the sixty-ninth and the seventieth week is only hinted at by Daniel himself." Dr. Walvoord does not explain where this supremely important postponement was "only hinted at." Nor does he explain how the infallible Bible could be confronted with such an embarrassing error as flagrant as the postponement of the entire Old Testament to some future age. To maintain this delusion, Dispensationalism has resorted to some very serious and questionable allegations. For instance, on p. 228 of The Millenial Kingdom, we read, "This very fact confused (italics mine) even the prophets." In his book, The Return of the Lord, p. 41, the same author says, "As the time of His ascension into heaven drew near, the disciples were somewhat confused…they did not understand (italics mine) that the Kingdom would follow the Second Coming…" Mr. Walvoord does not enlighten us as to how he arrived at his clear understanding that all the prophets and apostles were confused in their understanding of the Bible, especially since the Holy Ghost inspired their utterances. To be confused means that they were perplexed, bewildered, tangled or at cross-purposes. It is a rather serious assessment to make against those who were chosen to be the vehicles of God's infallible truth. Dispensationalism is bankrupt of any Scriptural authority to support the Postponement Theory, an unproved hypothetical assumption.
The Bible says, "Seventy weeks are determined" (Dan. 9:24). Commenting on this Bible passage in the Scofield Reference Bible, p. 915, Dr. Scofield says, "Prophetic time is invariably so near as to give full warning, so indeterminate as to give no satisfaction (italics mine) to mere curiosity." First of all, notice that where the Bible says "determined," Scofield says "prophetic time is invariably indeterminate." The prophetic time to which Dr. Scofield refers is now more than 1900 years overdue, so it cannot be classified as near enough to give any warning. The Bible says, "Seventy weeks are determined." Scofield says in his notes on the same page in the Bible, "Prophetic time is invariably indeterminate." Let us see if it is invariably indeterminate. Christ was to be buried and rise again on the third day. Was there anything indeterminate about his rising? Could He have risen any other day and still fulfill the prophecy? Joseph prophesied of seven years of famine. Was the time to be regarded as invariably indeterminate? Jeremiah prophesied of seventy years of captivity in Babylon. What if that did not happen on schedule? If the seventieth year had happened several hundreds of years later, would that have fulfilled the prophecy?
God keeps His appointments meticulously on schedule. A break or postponement does not make a future fulfillment possible. It is a flagrant error. Jesus said, "If I do not the works of My Father, believe Me not" (John 10:37). Dispensationalism is wrecked on this rock, for it is decisive. Daniel prophesied by the Holy Ghost and no man can tamper with what Deity has ordained. Jesus further said, "For the works which the Father hath given Me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of Me, that the Father hath sent Me." (John 5:36b). God's standard of the veracity of prophecy is: "When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not [no postponement possible], nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken; but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously, thou shalt not be afraid of him" (Deut. 18:22). "The Scripture cannot be broken" (John 19:35).
Let us ask, what does Dispensationalism expect to happen during Daniel's Seventieth Week? Their current literature assures us there will first of all be a secret Rapture, when the believers will be caught up for a seven-year excursion in the air. There will be the manifestation of Antichrist, and his covenant with the Jews which he will break in the middle of the week. There will be the Great Tribulation and the Millenium. Unfortunately for them, none of these speculations can be found in Dan. 9:24. There is no reference to re-establishing the Jewish nation or economy mentioned. What the inspired writer and prophet did plainly say is as follows: "And the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations shall be determined…and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate" (Daniel 9:26-27b). What Daniel wrote about was the "consummation" of Jewry, not its exaltation and eventual restoration.
On p. 136 of The Millennial Kingdom, Dr. Walvoord states, "The doctrine of Israel remains one of the central features of premillenialism." We would like to point out that "Israel" is not a doctrine. Israel is a "history" as far as the Bible is concerned. Whether doctrine or history, it is not central in the Bible. Christ is the central theme of the Word of God and He is the One Whom God has exalted. If Israel is central in premillenialism, we must remember that Christ is central in the Kingdom of God and in the Bible.
On p. 227 of The Millennial Kingdom, we read, "While Dispensationalists have regarded as a parenthesis unexpected and without specific prediction in the Old Testament…" On the contrary, Peter says, "To Him give all the prophets witness, that through His Name whosoever believeth in Him shall receive remission of sins" (Acts 10:43). Surely that is specific and it includes all.
We repeat the following two quotations because we wish to answer them clearly. They are crucial to the issue we are dealing with, and therefore, require special attention. H. A. Ironside says in The Great Parenthesis, p. 25, "Strange is it that many have supposed it was the Prince Messiah Himself who was to confirm a covenant for one week. But when did He ever make such a covenant? The blood of the covenant which He shed on the cross is not to confirm a covenant for seven years, but it is the blood of the everlasting covenant." To this we add from Dr. John Walvoord in The Millennial Kingdom, p. 227, as follows: "Nothing can be found in history that provides a literal fulfillment of the last seven years, or the Seventieth Week. It has been taken by many that this indicates a postponement of the fulfillment of the last seven years…"
First of all, let us do a little mathematics. The Bible says, "Seventy weeks are determined." This period is composed of seven weeks (sevens) during which the city of Jerusalem is restored. Then a period of 434 years (62 weeks) elapses until the baptism of Christ. The baptism of Christ is established because He is referred to as Messiah, the Prince; in other words, the Anointed One. There remained but one week, the seventieth, during which the ministry of Christ is executed, and during which He is cut off in the midst of the week. It is generally established that Christ ministered three and one half years before his crucifixion, when He was cut off. The remaining three and one half years of the seventy weeks was the period when the Gospel was proclaimed to the Jews, ending with Peter's divinely guided mission to the house of Cornelius, the first Gentile to embrace salvation (Acts 10). Further, the duration of the Covenant was not limited to one week, but it was ratified during that one week of prophecy. Its duration was endless—the New and Everlasting Covenant.
Next we take the keenest issue with Dr. Walvoord in saying, "Nothing can be found in history that provides a literal fulfillment of the last seven years, or the Seventieth Week." First of all, it should be pointed out that the ministry, death and resurrection of Christ was literal. It is an historical event that actually happened. We repeat that during that period of time, the Jews did "finish" the transgression. Their culminating crime was the rejection of Christ and delivering Him up to be crucified. Christ pointed out to them a long list of prophets and godly men whom they executed, and ended by saying, "Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers" (Matt. 23:32). Christ did make an end of sins. Christ made expiation for sin. Christ did bring everlasting righteousness. The Old Testament lived in prophecy. The New Testament lives in history.
Now if all the things prophesied were fulfilled on schedule, there is no need of wresting the Scriptures and saying unequivocally, "The fact is they were not fulfilled." Dispensational interpretation was most certainly not fulfilled, but God fulfilled all that was prophesied literally and infallibly. It couldn't be otherwise, for God cannot fail. He knows the end from the beginning. "For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been His counselor?" (Rom. 11:34). We just do not accuse God of being delinquent with His promises, and of injecting postponements, interstices, and parentheses of time to justify our interpretation. We accept His terms and His time, and if we seem mistaken, let us remember God has not changed. What God determines, man cannot postpone.
In my book, The Sign of His Coming, I take the following quotation. When Daniel prophesied, "He shall confirm the covenant" (Dan. 9:27), the evidence is very conclusive that he meant the Messiah. Quote: "There are 281 references to "covenant" in the Scriptures listed in Young's Analytical Concordance. Not one of these references in any way suggests the idea of a covenant between the Jews and the Antichrist. There is not a hint anywhere that such a covenant is suggested, intended, proposed or prophesied at any time. Concerning the covenant between the believers and the Messiah, there are many scores of such references" (See Jer. 31:31-33 and Heb. 8:7-13).
Even more convincing, is the testimony supplied by the Hebrew word for covenant, used in the phrase: "He shall confirm the covenant." The Hebrew word is Bereeth. According to the Pulpit Commentaries, Vol 29, p. 275, Bereeth is only used in connection with a Divine Covenant. It is never used to designate a "league" with any other power or force, but is always reserved to describe a covenant between God and man. For that reason, the covenant cannot apply to anyone except the Messiah. It cannot possibly describe a covenant with any future Antichrist, or any political group involving apostate Jews.
The Massoretic Text renders Daniel 9:27 thus: "And one week shall confirm a covenant to many, and in the middle of the week, my sacrifice and offering shall be taken away." The use of the personal pronoun "my" signifies that it was the Mosaic sacrifices and oblations that were meant. God honored and ordained these shadows of good things until the time of Christ's death. That is the only sacrifice that God could call my sacrifice. We see, then, that the death of Christ did inaugurate the New and Everlasting Covenant and that Christ did confirm that covenant at Calvary during his earthly ministry. When Christ died, the old Mosaic sacrifices ceased to have any further efficacious value, for the way to God was opened by a new and living way when the veil was Divinely torn asunder, Heb. 10:20.
Perhaps there is no better place to end this treatise than with the words found in Heb. 13:20, 21: "Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to Whom be glory forever and ever. Amen." In other words, God's Word is infallible. That which God determines, He fulfills—on schedule! Prophecy is not based on any Dispensational unproved assumptions. The God Who knows the end from the beginning, tolerates no such thing as a postponement theory. He does everything according to His own determinate will, Acts 2:23.
This wonderful treatise was originally published at CHAPEL LIBRARY. 2603 West Wright Street, Pensacola, FL. 32505. USA. Phone (904) 438-6666. FAX (904) 438-0227. A Worldwide ministry of Mt. Zion Bible Church. Unfortunately it appears to be currently out of print. For a current listing of old classics of the faith I encourage you to log onto www.mountzion.org
This treatise is being forwarded to other concerned Christians by Anita Whalley, who authored the inspiring Christian book, There Is A Kingdom, which is available at Amazon.com. This book supports and defends the new and everlasting covenant of Jesus Christ!

Christ, the One True Source of Real Revival

Many precious hearts are still aching today, July 8, 2009, because of the loss of a special icon, Michael Jackson, the king of pop. It has been quite a phenomenon to watch the last few days unfold since his death. And for the Christian, we can't help wishing that he might somehow be in heaven with the Master, rejoicing and singing his praises, around his throne of grace. But we just don't know, and this is the most difficult part of a special someone's passing on from this life.
God has centered everything in his own dear Son, our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ. He is the only one who is indeed the greatest star of all time, and throughout all of eternity. So each and every one of us must seek him and find him, and hold him close in our hearts like nobody else. For to know him is to love him with one's entire being. For to us who know him so intimately and specially, "He is like the light of the morning, like the sunrise bursting forth in a cloudless sky, like the refreshing rains that bring forth tender grass from the earth" (II Sam. 23:4).
There is always much talk of revival. But we must find the way to it before it can ever be realized. For if such a wonderful event would ever be realized, then the way of it must be sought at the very one and only foundation, who is Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord. When all of the human errors and fabrications are put to rest, and Christ's Spirit's power is finally allowed to take center stage, when his power is released in the truth that makes us free (Jo. 8:32), only then will we experience great revival in this world, that perhaps the world has never before known. I'm sure that would be a wonderful day that would make straight the pathway to the King (Lu. 3:4-6) for hurting and aching hearts everywhere!
This is the task that the church needs to attend to today, to become the true light in the world, so that all might come to know him and his wondrous power. Only then will joy replace earthly sorrow, and a happy new day dawn on the earth with the one true King of glory leading songs of praise to his dear name, on earth and in heaven.
The Scripture verses following this latest post, dated July 6, 2009, I believe can lead the way to great revival of faith on earth. They lead us away from all of "the weak and beggarly elements"(Gal. 4:9) that separate us from the love and power of God in our lives. They have the power to lead us into the throne room of the great Shepherd and King of all kings! It is my earnest prayer that many would pay close attention to such an important matter as this is while they still remain on earth to do so. Our salvation is before us today, and there is no other future day whereby we can be saved. For only Christ can heal the broken-hearted, and set the captives free. This is what Michael Jackson needed, and what everyone needs to release us from earthly cares and troubles. Michael is over there, now, already in eternity. But we are still here, and we must make our lives shine with the light of Jesus so that the great light and love of God in Christ will shine out brightly and bring many troubled hearts into his kingdom on high.

Anita Whalley. There Is A Kingdom. http://www.ThereIsAKingdombyAnitaWhalley@Amazon.com (Ctrl + click)

Quick Breakthrough Scripture References for Foundational Christian Doctrine

Dear Fellow Christians and Patriots:
Greetings!
Enclosed you will find one of the most important lists of Scripture references you have ever seen in your life. It supports the new covenant of our Savior and Lord Jesus. It also negates "Judeo-Christian Zionism", premillenialism, dispensationalism, and all other earthly kingdom fables, heresies, and mentalities! It is most essential and critical information for anyone concerned over what has gone wrong in Christianity today, and the neutralizing factors at work to sabotage it and to take it over for unchristian interests nationwide and worldwide. Please feel free to use it to the greatest advantage wherever you can to show others his great way and light.
Essentially, modern Christianity has been hijacked by nefarious earthly interests whose goal it is to destroy it and to destroy American freedom, all at the same time! It is well along the way to completion! But it can be stopped cold if enough people are alerted and take real action today. There is no time to lose, and time is short!
Come on, Christian soldiers and do your part to fulfill your obligations to Christ and to our beloved America! It is a very sad day when Christ's new covenant needs to be so defended. It was not so 250 years ago. How far we have slipped into apostasy today! We squander our greatness, our integrity, our future, and our valuable resources of treasure and human lives to support depraved myths and fables. Yet how straight and true is Christ's new covenant that establishes our feet upon his higher course. It is his new testament credential of highest and unequalled excellence that brings us all of his far better things, in this world and in the next. It should be self-evident where we need to take our stand today, but to many it is not.
"Start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." --Francis of Assisi.
"Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted? It is therefore good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men" (Mt. 5:13).
Quick Breakthrough Scripture References, etc.
The One True Gospel – Our Only Foundation (I Cor. 3:10-15 The Straight and Narrow Way (Mt. 7:14)

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"The darkness is disappearing and the true light is already shining." I Jo. 1:5-7, 2:8. See also Acts 26:18; Mt. 4:16).
Christ is the light of the world – Jo. 1:9, 3:20-21, 8:12, 12:46. See also Is. 9:2.
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God's secret plan centered in Christ – Eph. 1:9 (vv. 3-14). See also I Tim. 3:15-16.
God's purpose – Acts 17:27; Eph. 3:10-12.
He is the mediator of better things – Heb.12:24.
He came into the world to give us "all good things" (Ro. 1:7; He. 9:11-12).
"A name above all names" – Phil. 2:9.
"A better hope" – Heb 7:7, 19.
He came "to serve others, and to give his life as a ransom for many." (Mt. 20:28. See also Mt. 10:45).
"He came to seek and to save those…who are lost." (Lu. 19:10).
"…to preach Good News to the poor, to proclaim captives will be released, that the blind will see, that the downtrodden will be freed from their oppressors, and that the time of the Lord's favor has come." (Lu. 4:18).
To bring truth to the world (Jo. 18:37. Also see I Jo. 4:4-6).
"…this is the very reason why I came" into the world. (To go to the cross for our sins.) (Jo. 12:27).
Why Christ came into the world -- to destroy the works of the devil. I Jo. 3:8. Note also Heb.2:14. He broke the devil's power, and the power of sin (Heb. 9:26). See also Rom. 8:3.
Note also Isa. 53:10-12 & 61:1-2.
"…for the benefit of the church" – Eph. 1:22.
The new, life-giving way – Heb. 7:19, 22; 8:6; 10:20.
Christ made all things new – II Cor. 5:17; Heb. 10:20-23; Rev. 21:5-9.
Christ is everything we need to be right with God – Jo. 6:26-51.
In Christ lie all treasures… -- Col. 2:3.
Cling to Jesus – Jo. 20:16-18. See also Heb. 11:27.
Christ is "all that matters" – Col. 3:11.
"Today is the day of salvation" – II Cor. 6:1-2. See also Lu. 17:20-21.
For the prize of his "high calling" – Phil. 3:14.
The fullness of God – Eph. 3:19. When we find the secret wisdom of God (I Cor. 1:17-18, 2:4-16) that is all connected to his Good News (Gospel), his grace, we enter into his fullness. We accept that the old covenant of the Jewish law system, which was but a worldly sanctuary (Heb. 9:1-2), and a temporal tabernacle with external regulations (Heb. 9:23), was cancelled by Christ (Heb. 10:9).
In Christ and his priestly sacrifice you have entered the real Temple in heaven. You are really there in him! This is why Christ made such a vehement point of the destruction of the earthly temple in Jerusalem (Mt. 24:2). He did away with it, finished its limited usefulness forever, and made it completely obsolete! Thus it is an evil work that modern Judeo-Christian Zionists support now, for it goes completely against Christ and his finished work! Christians have no legitimate calling nor business supporting the Jewish aspirations and the erecting of another temple in Jerusalem to replace it, and "they must stop listening to Jewish myths and the commands of people who have turned their backs on the truth" (Titus 1:14, 15-16). For Christ abolished the old (II Cor. 3:11; Eph. 2:15; Heb. 8:13, 10:9), and replaced it with the far greater and more perfect new (Heb. 9:12). Anyone who disobeys God in this will fall (Heb. 4:11). For earthly Jerusalem is in bondage to Sinai (Gal. 4:24-25), and opposes Christ. We, as Christians, don't go around defending and supporting those who oppose Christ and refuse to believe in him! It is evil to do so, no matter for what strange mythological reason we may feel led to do so! But Jerusalem above is free (Gal. 4:26. Note also Heb. 12:22, 28), and it is these truths of the new covenant that set us free! It is in the new covenant where, by faith, we receive a kingdom which cannot be moved (See II Cor.3:6-18; Gal. 2:16-21, 3:8-29; Heb. 9:15, 10:9-20, 12:24). In all of these wonderful truths and new realities, the Christian is transformed into a new person. New life has begun (II Cor. 5:17; Gal. 3:21), as the Christian is made spiritually whole by the power of the Spirit and the Word.
In these matters the Apostle was most adamant! We are to remain in Christ and in his new covenant, and not return to the old. Only by so doing can we enter the real Temple in heaven. Christ and the apostles left us no room to go after the old things of the old Jewish law system that was an inferior, external, earthly system, under any delusion, assumption or pretext! His new covenant leads the way out of it, and that alone! By failing to obey Christ and follow it, the church is now in a position of gravest and most serious rebellion and error against Christ, his Word, and his Spirit which could easily bring all of western civilization down all around us. Just stop and look all around you. It has already begun!
The heavenly kingdom was good for America and all the world. The earthly one, in earthly Israel, is not at all a good thing for the world, because it violates God's real commands (see I Jo.23-24; II Jo. 9; Heb. 7:15,10:29. See also Mt. 15:8-9; Mk 7:7-9; Jo. 12:48-50; 15:9-11). We have seriously departed from Christ when we follow the Jewish law system, and support it, and we will never find the real Temple that is established on high in the heavenly realms (Heb. 8:1-2,5, 9:11, 23-24) by going that route. The way is blocked when we follow the wrong path!
The new covenant of Jesus Christ is forever. – II Cor. 3:5-17 (esp. v. 11). It is a better covenant (Heb. 8:6-13; 10:9-10), and it moves us forward into new life in Christ (II Cor. 5:17; Heb. 7:22), by faith (Heb. 11:6).
A HEAVENLY CALLING
Christ's Kingdom is not of this world -- Jo. 18:36. It is not in Israel. And it never will be!
His heavenly kingdom he proclaimed as already being near, or at hand 2000 years ago nearly -- Mt. 4:17, Mark 1:15; Lu 4:16-21; Eph. 1:3, 20 & 2:6.
Our calling is heavenward -- (in the heavenly realms) Eph. 1:3. See also v. 20 and 2:6. Phil. 3:14, Col. 1:5, 3:1-4, Heb. 3:1 & 6:19.
The real Temple is in heaven – Heb. 8:5, 9:24.
We are called to his higher calling and purpose -- Ro. 8:28.
We (Christians) are the new people of God – Gal.6:16; Eph. 1:13, 23; Lu. 12:31-32; Jas. 1:17-18. See also Rom. 8:14, 20-30.
Christians are God's own holy people – I Cor. 1:2, 15:2; Gal. 6:16; Eph. 1:4, 14; Jas. 1:17-18. They are God's own true Israel.
We are foreigners and aliens here -- I Pet. 3:11.
God chose us out of the world – Jo. 17:14-18.
He rejected the notion of certain Jews of his day that he came to be a king over Israel (Jo. 6:15). It is still very displeasing to him today!
Today, an astonishing number of Christian people are hung up on the notion of an earthly theocratic kingdom in Israel. Yet, the sacred Scriptures clearly do not support it. They are very clear on the heavenly kingdom, instead, however. It is sad and surprising how easily some men can use pernicious and manipulative words to encourage otherwise intelligent people to buy into earthly oriented theories. It is most unfortunate that these matters which pertain to Christ's new covenant have not been more thoroughly addressed in much of theology. It has created a great void, and abyss for many to fall into. This book There Is A Kingdom addresses this issue. The author, Anita Whalley, knows most personally how difficult it can be to come back to the Scriptures only (sola Scriptura!) with total trust and discover the joy and wonder of Christ and his new covenant that offers so much more of all good things from the hand of a most loving and gracious Lord. She also knows the cessation of the difficulties when once she found Christ's new covenant and entered into it for herself at long last!
This book is available at Amazon.com and is must reading for any who long for God and for his real truths--Real good reading to brighten up a rainy summer, and a lifetime beyond, too!

SPIRITUAL THINGS*****************
Jo. 4:21; Ro. 7:6, 8:5-9, 23-24; I Cor. 2:14.
God is not the author of confusion – I Cor. 14:33.
Lacking spiritual discernment – Ro. 8:5-9; I Cor. 2:14.
Spiritual blindness – Jo. 9:35-41, 15:22.
The old (law) and the new way of the Spirit – Ro. 7:6; Gal. 5:1.
The Holy Spirit – Jo. 16:17; Ro.6:8-18, 8:12.
These are the Gospel truths that make us free! – Jo. 8:32,36.
The word of God is full of living power – Heb. 4:12.
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CONFUSED VALUES—RIGHT vs. WRONG (Heb.5:9-6:1)
Winds of doctrines – Eph 4:14. Strong delusion – II Th. 2:7-12
The devil's trap; following heresies –Ro. 16:17; Col. 2:4; II Jo. 10-11; III Jo. 11;
Woe..who call evil good, etc. – Isa. 5:20. See also I Pet. 2:16; III Jo. 11.
Rebuilding things torn down (destroyed) – Gal. 2:18-21.
Grieving God's Spirit – Eph. 4:30. Note also Heb. 10:28-29.
Fallen from grace – (Gal. 5:3-4), and frustrating God's grace (Gal. 2:21). We are still under sin's curse when we ignore the new covenant and cling to the old Jewish law system – Gal. 3:10-13. We forfeit God's richest blessings in supporting the way of the old system. But we gain a new sense of spiritual wholeness and wellness in the God-centeredness found in the new covenant!
Christians are supposed to serve God, not men – Mt. 4:10. Today, Christians are serving unbelieving Judaism in Israel. They believe that such darkness and evil are light and good (Isa. 5:20; I Pet. 2:16), because they believe in unbelieving Israel as God's kingdom instead of, or over heaven. They have failed to discern the spirits of error and of apostasy. Indeed, it is an extremely serious shortfall in modern Christendom! How can we even claim to be Christian when we don't hold Christ's words about his real reason for coming to earth to be even equal to those of men today, let alone actually of higher and greater authority? (See the above – Christ's real reason for coming to earth, in his very own words. Hint – It wasn't to establish any earthly kingdom in Israel that supposedly had to be "postponed". Yet America currently sends Israel over $7,000,000.00 a day to support everything Israel believes in, and wants and does!)
Is it really any wonder why we are in such serious trouble today? The church has inadvertently taken the broad path of destruction (Mt. 7:13-14) by failing to heed the entire content and warnings of sacred Scripture. It has been deceived and led astray (I Jo.2:26), and doesn't seem to care!
No favorites with God, re. race or peoples, such as the Jews – Acts 10:34-35.
Believing Jews and Gentiles are now joined together in his church – Eph. 3:10. The rest are lost –I Jo. 5:12.
Israel -- conditional nature of God's covenant with Israel – Jer. 13, Gen. 17:1, 9-14, 23-27, 18:19, 22:1-19, 26:5; Heb. 11:8, 17; Jas. 2:21-22.
Re. the LAND, all was fulfilled – Joshua 21:43-45, 23:14-16; I Ki. 8:56.
Worthless observances – Gal. 4:10; Col. 2:16-17.
It (the law system) was a "yoke of bondage" that the Jews could not bear (Acts 15:9-10; Gal. 5:1). All of these things are termed "useless', and "obsolete" (Heb. 8:6-8 & 13), "worthless" (Phil. 3:11), and thus "abolished" (II Cor. 3:11; Eph. 2:15; Phil. 3:7; Heb. 7:18-19, 8:13 & 10:9-10). Christ's new covenant replaced it forever. Compare all of this to the "yoke" of Christ – Mt. 11:28-30. It is his yoke that contains "good tidings of great joy…" – Lu. 2:10-11. See also Ro. 3:23 & 6:23, and Jo 3:16, etc.
"The old system in the law of Moses was only a shadow of the things to come, not the reality of the good things Christ has done for us" (Heb. 10:1. See also 8:5). He cancels the first covenant in order to establish the second (A better covenant-Heb. 8:6-13). And what God wants is for us to be made holy by the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all time" (10:9-10). "This is the new, life-giving way that Christ has opened up for us through the sacred curtain, by means of his death for us" (v. 20). So, v. 22, "Let us go right into the presence of God with true hearts fully trusting him."
Christ already made it possible to be in his presence (Heb. 10:21-22). So why on earth would anyone need to call back up the cancelled old covenant and Jewish law system to regain what we already have in Christ? As the truth starts to set in, and our minds start to clear and the light of Christ starts to more fully shine in, we begin to recognize the great scope of the deceit that has been perpetrated on the visible church.
The current misrepresentation of Christ's reason for coming here, to establish a glorious earthly kingdom in Israel is false, and a great offense to God. The Scriptures are very clear re. Christ's real reason for coming to earth. We just need to apply ourselves to his Word of truth and start dealing with what Christ actually gave to us by his coming here. For only by doing this can we ever hope to gain a fuller understanding that gets us on our way heaven bound and heavenward, for the world is passing away (I Jo. 2:17). We finally recognize how we have been robbed of our great inheritance in Christ. He provided this for us, and it is not the right thing to do, to shun this wonderful gift and claim the Scriptures are saying something entirely different. Instead we ought to be continuing in this teaching of Christ, so that we will "have fellowship with both the Father and the Son"(II Jo. 9). No wonder many Christians are so weak today, as they have gone wandering back to Jewish myths and have not seen that the old covenant and Jewish law system is abolished by Christ, nevermore to rise again. For only eternal things remain (Heb. 12:26-27).
Whatsoever things are of good report and beauty, whatever "is true and honorable and right" we are to think on these things! Whatever is "pure, and lovely and admirable, excellent, and worthy of praise", these are the things that we American Christians are supposed to support and think upon (Phil. 4:8)! We have no business whatsoever thinking of and supporting evil rebellion and unbelief against God in Israel. But we do have a most serious business with God and his truths and with our own precious Constitution and all of the other documents of freedom! For without these beautiful things, another time of the dark ages looms dead ahead of us! Time to get busy and be about the Lord's business, America! Can't you understand? Time is no longer on your side!
These are the true foundations of the Christian faith (Ps. 11:3) that have been eroded away by judaistic-centered fables and inventions of the day, thus making the Gospel a weak shadow of what it should be. Henry Haley, in his Bible Handbook, rightly called it apostasy. The idea of a glorious earthly kingdom did not originate with Christ, as the above reveals, for he never came here to establish such a thing at all! These clear Scripture passages above ought to be what defines all the rest of Scripture, instead of the reverse order of things as they are today. Because it is really evil to accept evil and to support it, no matter what the rationale! We are not free to "follow a multitude to do evil" (Exodus 23:2), so isn't it really about time that today's professing Christians start caring enough to do some serious and honest work with God and his holy Word and finally seek to get it right? If not, why not???? And pray tell, how on earth can Christians truly "Occupy" (Luke 19:13) without it? Or without our Constitution which makes it possible to serve Christ? Both are under attack today, even while you rest and take your ease! Yet your allegiance ought not to be to unbelieving Israel, but to God and to our own once Christ honoring country!
"You are not slaves; you are free. But your freedom is not an excuse to do evil. You are free to live as God's slaves" (I Pet.2:16).
"Isaiah had spoken of John when he said, 'He is a voice shouting in the wilderness:"Prepare a pathway for the Lord's coming! Make a straight road for him! Fill in the valleys, and level the mountains and hills! Straighten the curves, and smooth out the rough places! And then all people will see the salvation sent from God"'" (Lu. 3:4-6 NLT).
How badly the church today needs to straighten out the pathway it is following and smooth over the rough places to fulfill its proper role in Christ's Great Commission and really lead a needy world to Christ and his kingdom instead of actually redirecting it back around to itself (or back into the world all over again.)!
Anita Whalley. There Is A Kingdom. http://www.booksurge.com/There-is-a-Kingdom-The-Heavenly/A/1419686798.htm (Ctrl + click). It is high time that this book really began to circulate out there! Do your part and order a copy or several today. It's high time to take an active part and support this good work today. And spread the word! Please! This information is one great way to start, and There Is A Kingdom will take you even further on the magnificent Christian journey that Christ makes available to any who follow his truths. It also includes George B. Fletcher's most excellent and thorough treatment of the fabled two-stage second coming theory, in which the first stage is declared by moderns to be the secret rapture of the church!
I know this is the first time that all this information has come to many of you. For others it is not the first time at all, and massive indifference has won out once again! Surely there are some out there who will follow the call and take a stand for what is right! The battle is everywhere today, and so we must work in every direction to defend what's true! Basic knowledge in the right places is a very big help. This book gives one that basic knowledge so that we don't need to be helpless any longer and cave in to falsehoods. A little preparation saves the day, but apathy digs many graves (see Heb. 6:12)!
The time is now to defend Christ's new covenant out there. If we Christians don't do it, who will? We have the necessary tools available, so, come on, let's do it Christians!
"When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps" (Prov. 16:7-9).
To all of you who faithfully follow Christ's call to defend the real truth, I am most grateful, and I salute you as my fellow laborers in Christ! It is good when we Christians can stand up together for Jesus, as well as for America!
Special note – This is an expanded version of the same material that some of you received earlier. I simply felt that a little more information would likely be most helpful to those who were interested in the truth and desired a little more than the most basic information that it contained. Perhaps in all of your travels you can put either one to good use. Please feel entirely free to do so, and God bless you in all of your faithful endeavors for God and country. --A. Whalley.

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A Shining City on a Hill

As our former President Ronald Reagan said, "America is a shining city on a hill." But yet, I must differ with him on this point, at least a little bit, as much as I hate to. America was once that shining city set on a hill, and this was so good, largely, at least a lot more of the time than it now is, regrettably. Sure we still do a lot of good in the world, but I feel that we also undo the good that we do. And so we must ask ourselves, do we actually break even in all of our efforts today? Let me explain.
I believe that America's goodness was built upon the foundation of a purer theology that adhered more strictly to the guidelines of Scripture fact and content and did not pass beyond that boundary line into the areas of theory and conjecture that we now see so significantly predominating many peoples' minds in the churches of this day. And this was brought to light as a result of the great Protestant Reformation of the 1500's. There was much less room for such indulgences in empty human speculation, invention, and tradition in our earlier days, and as a result more of the pure Gospel light permeated American culture, in its churches, society, and its laws.
I wouldn't say that our nation had total sight, for very little seemed to be pursued in the entire area of our Lord's new covenant in the Protestant Reformation, regrettably, though the Westminster divines had very great intelligence and wisdom, and recognized many wonderful doctrines that shed a broad light for Christ across the land. I will address these later on at some point, but for now my major concern must rest with my Lord's new covenant, for it is so very badly needed., since it has been so greatly neglected. The lack of information about it has caused much mischief, hardship, and even calamity today in our most holy faith, and in the world. When the true doctrines of the faith are ignored and neglected, it follows along that people suffer as a result. Sadly, this is just as true today as at any earlier time of the dark ages. But we have the Scriptures readily available today, so what is our excuse?
There was a time when the church knew of the doctrines of God's grace and adhered to them. In these, one thing we recognized, that all men are sinners, totally depraved, just as the sacred Scriptures explain.
Americans also believed that" all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Though sadly, it seems they still saw "through a glass darkly" (I Co. 13:12), and failed most miserably to apply it to everyone, for this would have been the Christian thing to do, and also the decent and lawful thing to do.
One foundational Bible fact that the opening sentence of the Declaration of Independence, referred to above, exemplified in human form is found in Romans 2:11. There we read that "there is no respect of persons with God." All are equal (see also Acts 10:34-35), and all are equally born in sin, and lost, except they come to Christ, who justifies the lost "by faith" in Christ (Ro. 3:28, 5:1), who imputes his righteousness to them. Thus we see the Scriptures declaring the rights of all men. We are all in the same fallen condition, until God's grace enters our lives and redeems us out of our fallen state, and lifts us upward on the first leg of our heavenly journey. It is Christ's Holy Spirit who quickens us to accept God's grace and salvation. Without him none would come if left completely to ourselves. We just don't have it in us to come, for we are all totally depraved, just as the Scriptures teach.
And so also, when it comes to Jew and gentile, Christ tore down the middle wall of partition that separated us. "He abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace…" (Eph. 2:14-17).
Here is peace for the Jew among the gentiles, and peace for the black man among the whites. Peace for the Palestinians in the Middle East, and true equality, with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for them also. But we must be very careful here to be sure that this is really being offered to them, and that they are not being treated in something lesser than a first class way, for there are very real signs that this is what is actually happening.
Do American Christians care today? American Christians need to make sure that all people are treated fairly and equally, and not play favorites with only a handful. God has not given us any command at all in Scripture to play favorites, for God does not do so, just as we have seen in the Scriptures above. So, too, Christian doctrine ought to be consistent with these Scripture guidelines, and not contradict them. Christian doctrine should compel believers to be respectful to all peoples on the earth, for Christ died for all. When it claims special favored status for the Jew over the Palestinian, for whatever reason, then it is not following the mandates of Christ's new covenant. Certain modern American Christian ideas, or "doctrine", have espoused an unequal treatment of some who never deserved it, and so America has a very serious problem today at the very core of its belief system.
It is hard to get the attention of a group of people who insist that they are right, even though they are in serious violation of the very foundations of God's wonderful better credential of the new covenant, and our very own wonderful documents of freedom and rights. When all that they care to see is the erroneous idea of glorious earthly kingdom over any of the truer ideas brought forth in Christ's new covenant, then it becomes a really serious problem! When an indigenous people must give way, and maybe even be annihilated in order for another people to reestablish their old cancelled law system and set up their glorious earthly kingdom in place of the heavenly prescribed in sacred Scripture, modern Christianity has run amuck!
All people need mental peace and space to make up their own minds about the things that God has laid before them. They need to hear the Good News of Christ and his Gospel of love and peace. And they need the godly counsel of the straight and narrow way that contains the credential of Christ's new covenant, so that they can grow in his grace and enter into his heavenly Kingdom some day. What they don't need is to be placed theologically on a side rail waiting for the next train to come along to proceed forward into some other earthly destination. There is no benefit in such a message. The beneficial message supreme is in the glorious new covenant that is filled to overflowing with his rich blessings. This alien message is wrought with calamity from start to finish! People don't need an extension of the old covenant, and this is what we have in many of today's churches!
Do American Christians really believe in the opening sentence of our Declaration of Independence, but maybe for just a certain few that they favor, and not for others who stand in the way of what they want and are pushing for? This is the danger of the premillenial mindset. And it is misguided, because it is outside of Christ's new covenant. It is outside the boundary lines that God has set in place to provide for his people, and to keep them safely on the straight and narrow way.
In Heb. 8:13 we read, "In that he saith, a new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away."
The shadows and rules of the old covenant have indeed been cancelled. They have all been replaced by the new covenant. This is extremely important information, and we need to pay closer attention to it than we have in the past, for the new covenant has been seriously neglected. This has created great confusion and problems that would not have been, had the church down through the years been diligent to learn of it and to apply it to the church's teaching. I'm sure the apostles would have agreed, for they diligently labored to impress it on our minds. But we read right over it anyway!
It does not have to be that way any longer. We can see clearly now, if we have the will to.
The way of Christ's new covenant has been laid out for you. I especially wrote my book, There Is A Kingdom, to expedite anyone's progress into the place of God's richest blessings. There one can discover God's new way that is so beneficial and rewarding for any whose hearts are waiting on him for their help. There they will not be disappointed!
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Dear God, We Want the Future Right Now!
Today it’s as if much of the modern church has essentially given up on the present. One can almost hear people saying: enough of this already! We don’t need God’s grace in Christ any more, and the Holy Spirit isn’t getting anything done. It’s curtains, right now! So you may just as well bring Christ back to us and get the glorious future earthly kingdom into Israel. But first we want you to come and rapture us away to heaven so we won’t have to hang around here any longer. Chop, chop!
Many such ones today never take any time out to stop and think about much of anything else. If they could bring themselves to go further, they might become aware of God’s real Plan A that has always been in place, but that they never gave any thought to.
God’s Plan A is the far more perfect plan for everyone, and in many ways that they have never been able to recognize or appreciate. Much of the church today would be better served if it would expand its horizons into areas of Scripture that it has given little, if any, real thought to.
It matters not how strongly human desire wants to change or rearrange God’s plans. It will not prevail, because He is the omnipotent Master, and if men do not choose to learn the easy way God has already provided, then they will end up learning the hard way, if they can even do that much. They waste precious time that is available to them, especially now, in some cases where unemployment has them stuck with extra time on their hands. What a perfect time to put to good use reading a really good book that will help them to no end in grappling with the present and the future. So, if you haven’t done so yet, then now is the time. Go to Amazon.com and into the religious, then to the Christian and inspirational books area and type in There Is A Kingdom by Anita Whalley. There you can order the one book that will stimulate your spirit as God’s refreshing breezes with a heavenly scent blow in upon it.