The Name of GOD

I have searched for 45 years for the truth of the Bible and GOD's Word and that search has taken many forms and I have followed many paths, some fulfilling and others leading to virtual confusion on my part. The father of confusion is Satan which means when you search on your own and under your own wisdom the devil will step in quickly and provide what appears to be valuable information through common knowledge clues or obscure clues disguised as little golden nuggets of the truth, they are false. Soon you are following a path that is nothing more than an elaborate circle, like a small boat with just one oar you row and row and row but a wise mind continually listens for that small quite voice and hears that it is time to look up and see the whirlpool of darkness you circumnavigate is nothingness and darkness follows closely behind. That is when you finally realize that there are essentials one must first seek but to correctly find these essential points one must be of a humble and contrite heart before our heavenly Father, clarity of purpose and clear vision comes soon. Seek the truth of GOD with all your heart, mind and soul and revelation begins to occur in small increments at first and greater knowledge then follows.

One thing that bothered me for so many years was the fact that the Bible I was reading continually stressed GOD's name, yet all I ever found was a description, or if you will an explanation of the meaning of HIS name.

Exodus 3:14 "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you."  In Hebrew "ehyeh 'ăšer 'ehyeh". For many years I accepted this answer but I always had a sense that there was much more. Forward many years and that question began to burn in my heart and I knew there was more.

Another point I am sure most know is that YHWH is an abbreviation of GOD's name and this is what you will find in a Hebrew Bible in most instances but you will also find Hashem (The Name) Adonai and LORD, not the name of GOD. 

The Rabbi's of old, otherwise known as the Pharisees and Sadducees had decided that knowing the name of GOD was just too much power to be thrown around lightly so they basically hid the Name and only they new the real Name and the High Priest would only say it aloud once during the Day of Atonement in the Holy of Holies. It is a long story but a misguided attempt to build a wall of protection around Torah for the supposed benefit of the children of Israel but it was also intended to keep power in the hands of the elite. The name has been hidden for almost 2000 years. God said, through the prophets, that HIS name would be known throughout the world and even the gentiles would know the truth in the end days.

Well, to get to crux of the subject, I found a Karaite Jew by the name of Nehemia Gordon, a great biblical scholar from Israel, who has opened the book of Rabbinical secrets to show us all that the name of GOD has always been there, it is there without vowel points which define how a letter is pronounced. This is the part I love, Nehemia's persistence in seeking the truth has been rewarded with over a thousand documents throughout history that clearly show that the leading Orthodox Rabbinic leaders (Pharisees) have always known the truth of HIS Name but have suppressed this knowledge. There are many who will vehemently deny GOD's true name but as with all of GOD's truth Satan tries desperately to confuse and deny. Remember that GOD said in the end days all who want to know and search will know HIS true name.

The name of GOD is mentioned in the Bible 6828 times. I am satisfied that Nehemia is correct and that the Name of GOD written in English is Yehovah. Please research for yourself at Nehemia's site. 

www.nehemiaswall.com

This Will Make Americans Think, I Hope!

When you vote for an incumbent you are perpetuating our government as it is now.    Nothing will change. 

3 short sentences, you may find interesting.
 
  These three, short sentences tell you a lot about the direction of our current government and cultural environment:
 
   1.)   We are advised NOT to judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.
 
  ....  Funny how that works. And here's another one worth considering.
 
   2.)   Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money.
 
       How come we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money?  

        What's interesting is the first group "worked for" their money, but the second didn't.
 
       Think about it..... Last but not least:
 
   3.)   Why are we cutting benefits for our veterans, no pay raises for our military and cutting our army to a level lower than before WWII, but we are not stopping payments to illegal aliens such as monthly payments for each child, money for housing, Food Stamps, free education including college and also the right to vote?
 
  Am I the only one missing something?

What is Apostasy in the Modern World?

I have heard numerous times from those who no longer attend any form of church because what they hear from the pulpit just doesn't ring true within their hearts or they just don't see any immediate benefit by continual attendance. I can understand those who turn away because the Word never really penetrated the layers secular thought being taught daily. When the Word doesn't fully take hold of an individual it is generally because the seed of the Word has fallen on desert sands or poisoned earth, a product of the individual mind set and the pollution one has absorbed throughout their lives. This is a very sad state and indicative of one continues to go through live in a small row boat with no oars and simply drift where the current current takes them and that destination is usually the rocks, again very sad when we as Christians know that not only are oars available to those who ask but outboard motors are ready to be installed on your little lifeboat once you understand that the knowledge of God and the love of Jesus are starting place for all real wisdom. People need to understand that this falling away or great apostasy is spoken of and prophesied to occur during these end days. This falling away is another sigh that all things are converging on a single point in time when all will be revealed.  Be encouraged by these signs and know that those who hold fast run the race to completion will see the throne of God. 

I want to simply point out to those who say "I used to be Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, Lutheran, etc. etc." or "I used to attend church but just don't go any longer because...well I just didn't see the point any more in light of the discovers made in modern times." This is a falling away, a falling away for any reason is still an apostasy, so any testing of ones faith during this period is truly the refining of the gold ore gathered. When the apostasy is complete we who are still standing in the faith will be the nuggets gathered to present before God. Life is a refinery with the individual being in control of the gathering to themselves the gold dust and small nuggets of the Truth found during ones search for the face of God. Pretty simple really, you get to build that temple within yourself with the guidance and help of the Holy Spirit if you will but accept the hand that reaches down to help lift you from the natural morass found on this earth.

Apostasy in Christianity refers to the rejection of Christianity by someone who formerly was a Christian. The term apostasy comes from the Greek word apostasia ("ἀποστασία") meaning defection, departure, revolt or rebellion. It has been described as "a willful falling away from, or rebellion against, Christianity. Apostasy is the rejection of Christ by one who has been a Christian.

Luke 8:11–13 – Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. And the ones on the rock are those who, when they hear the word, receive it with joy. But these have no root; they believe for a while, and in time of testing fall away.

1 Timothy 4:1 – But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons. 
Hebrews 3:12–14 – Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.

When people say that they no longer attend any sort of church services but convince themselves they are still spiritual is like saying " I no longer display the American flag on the 4th of July because I just don't feel it but I still recognize the date on the calendar"  and I'm sure all of those around your neighborhood still recognize you as a flag waving patriot even though you no longer wave a flag on that special day. People are not good recognizing that which they cannot see, help them to see.  

September 2015 A Pivotal Time

Every day I am being inundated with the notion that September 2015 is going to be a very important and pivotal time period for all mankind but it will be especially important for Christians who know and observe the 7 Feasts of God.

The 7th shmittah year of the 7th shmittah cycle (almost 2 thousand years) will end 13 September 2015, according to the dating methods I have been using, and this alone will portend the dramatic failure of our economic system here in America or it could be the start of a compounding failure in the world economic system. I could even be a year off but with the Blood Moons falling on the God's Holy Feast Days I doubt that this conclusion is wrong.

The shmittah is just the beginning. Between now (May 12, 2015) and September I expect to see many more large earthquakes around the world, maybe more tsunami's, large drought stricken areas in the US and abroad which will lead to massive fires and this in turn will lead to much higher food costs and thus beginning a worldwide famine where food stuffs will have to be rationed. The wars will escalate, the unrest here at home will increase and cities across the land will find themselves fighting to keep order. 

Over the next few years I do expect an increase in meteor activity and an increase in the size of the meteors falling to the earth and actually exploding upon arrival, volcanic activity will increase dramatically over the next couple of years where we have a least 20 volcano's spitting fire, smoke and lava on a consistent basis. I know the Catholic astronomers at their Binocular telescope in Arizona (atop a cursed mountain top, as per Apache Indian Lore) which they have called Lucifer (what kind of name is that to give an instrument used by the biggest so called God fearing church in the world, makes you wonder) have said that they are tracking something headed this way, what is headed this way? 

New discoveries in the fields of paleoarchaeology, paleoanthropology and perhaps even microbiology will indeed assault the Christians and our basic beliefs but don't allow your mind to be addled with secular points of persuasion because they may look good on the surface but under pinning it all will be a lie. This may be one of the factors contributing to the great apostasy to come shortly. 

Born Again Bible believing Christians will become the central figures in a campaign to find the fault plaguing the world and it will be determined that Christians are so hard headed and stiff necked about God's Word that it will be told that these Christians are the ones keeping the world from peace and therefore they must be isolated, despised, undermined and their beliefs must be disposed of it the world is to advance to it man made Utopia on earth.

Hillary Clinton has already come out publicly and declared that Christians who think abortion is a sin and against the laws of God are wrong minded and need to adjust their thinking to accommodate abortion for all women and she will of course say that the taxpayer dollars will pay for it. She says she is a Christian but how is that possible, it is not, she is a liar, no one who obeys God's Commandment would ever say God is wrong about killing innocents and that she knows better and she says it's OK. To condone that which God has condemned is to condemn oneself.

Everything that we see today that shocks us, like Hillary's comments on abortion, the racism of the left and the attacks on Christians and our beliefs will only continue to expand and increase with great rapidity over the coming year. 

The Rapture could be this September but I never assume anything in God's plan but be assured that the "come up here" will be soon. For the sake of your soul look up and ask God, "Who am I?" "Why am I here?" "What is my purpose in this life?" and you may be surprised when the quite little voice whispers that you are a creation of God and you are here to grow in knowledge and learn the ways of God, and finally that the purpose of your life is to save that life the only way you can, thru Christ Jesus.

Time is running out and you have to make a stand if you believe God and Believe in His Son Jesus you'll want others to become aware and save themselves. God's love will sustain you and give you the power to bring the Word to those who just don't know.

A Great Shaking on the horizon

I wanted to pass on a recent understanding I received about Revelation 18:4 "And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues."

The "come out of her" simply means to leave the system of false teaching in the dominate Christian churches. The current system teaches that Sunday is the new acceptable Sabbath and that the Feasts of the Lord are of no use to Christians although they tell the story of redemption thru Christ in seven established Feasts, these Feasts are called the Feasts of GOD not of Hebrews, Jews, Gentiles or anyone else, they were established by GOD to teach man of GOD's plan of Salvation. There are many churches today wrestling whether or not to accept abortion, gay marriage and multitude of other issues which the Scripture clearly state are wrong. Unfortunately, silly churches and individuals calling themselves Born Again Christians are quite willing to stand up for their shallow feelings and condone that which GOD has condemned. 

A Christian with the Holy Spirit guiding them will eventually see the folly of their church and begin an honest investigation of what Jesus and the Apostles taught their Disciples. It just amazes me how many do not seek GOD's face but count on another to guide them by the hand to the Glory of GOD's Salvation. It doesn't work that way! Seek yourself the Truth of GOD's Word. If you only have a small amount of faith and belief in Jesus the Holy Spirit is there to take you by the hand and guide you into the Knowledge of GOD, by the way the knowledge that GOD speaks of is pretty important and has GOD said in Hosea 4:6 "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." I don't want GOD to forget me because I forgot HIM and the Commandments.

Don't you want to know what knowledge that is? What laws were forgotten? Misunderstanding one law can condemn you, how sad not to at least search out the Truth from GOD's own Word. This is not rocket science people it just takes a truthful and heartfelt desire to understand GOD's plan which is ultimately for you as a gift, to help guide you into a wonderful and fruitful life as a disciple of Christ, understanding that which Jesus taught and acting upon that which Jesus taught and understanding why. Simple illustration, if you buy a fancy bread maker and bring it home expecting great bread but neglect to read the instructions you will not get great bread anytime soon but what you will have is conversation piece. I see people all the time who have done this same thing with a Bible, if you don't read the instructions yourself you will never understand how it all works. 

GOD's plan of redemption is a custom made plan for any individual believer. 

There is a great shaking coming soon and that shaking involves the believers who found themselves to be non fruit bearing trees in non fruit bearing churches. These people will break away from those churches and seek a Church that follows GOD's law and right now I see only one Church that obeys the Commandments of GOD. Seek it out and it will be revealed to you.

Come Soon Lord        

The Sabbath was Established at the Creation before Jews and Christians and even Catholics, must be important!!!!!!!

The Sabbath a Perpetual Covenant

Why is this so hard for modern Christians to understand? GOD established the Sabbath Day of Rest at the Creation before there were Jews, Christians or Muslims and established it as a stand alone Perpetual Covenant for all.  It was a gift from GOD to sanctify His people (to make them stand out) and those are they who believed in Him and did His Commandments.  

Do we not define a covenant as a mutual agreement between two parties? Is that not the description by which we recognize a covenant in the Bible?

Now let us consider Exodus 31:12-18, "And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, [the children of Israel here have the meaning of the blood descendants of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the twelve tribes, literally], "saying, Verily My Sabbaths ye shall keep: FOR IT IS A SIGN BETWEEN ME AND YOU THROUGHOUT YOUR GENERATIONS...." Between God and whom? The twelve tribes, or descendants of Jacob-Israel, God's chosen earthly race. Now WHY? "That ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you." Sanctify -- set apart. The Sabbath, then is their national sign, setting them apart from other nations and peoples, identifying them as God's chosen race. Now does Sabbath-keeping set one apart? You and I know that it does. The rest of the world sets us apart mighty quick when we begin to keep it. "Ye shall keep the Sabbath, therefore; for it is holy unto you; everyone that defileth it shall surely be put to death." Now death ordinarily means "cut off," generally from God. Note, however, that the following words seem to define the meaning here. "For whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off FROM AMONG HIS PEOPLE." Cut off from God? No, it says cut off from his people -- Israel. Cut off from being considered one of God's chosen earthly race of people. So, then, consider an Israelite. And, as you know, there is ample scriptural evidence that an outsider can be GRAFTED IN, and considered an ADOPTED child of Israel. And this passage I am discussing tells what cuts one off, and what the national sign is. Why does violation of the Sabbath cut one off from Israel? "To observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, FOR A PERPETUAL COVENANT." Get that word COVENANT. The Sabbath, then, is a covenant, all by itself. And THIS covenant is given as a PERPETUAL covenant. A WHOLLY SEPARATE AND DISTINCT COVENANT IN ITSELF. Entirely apart from the Ten Commandments. That is, God here takes ONE of those Ten Commandments, and makes a separate and distinct and perpetual covenant out of it. God, the party of the first part, agrees to be their God that doth set them apart as His chosen people, provided the children of Israel, party of the second part, keep His Sabbath command. Failure on the part of the party of the second part to perform their side of the covenant agreement annuls God's promise to keep His part of the agreement of setting them apart as His chosen people. Thus, failure to keep the Sabbath breaks the covenant and cuts one off from being of Israel. The passage continues, "It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel FOREVER."

The Sabbath, here is presented as the SIGN which God gave to Israel between Him and them. It formed a new and separate covenant. THIS covenant is a perpetual covenant, to be a sign FOREVER.

I am fully aware of the fact that this passage has been used time and again by both the Church of God and the Adventists. But has it been used as a SEPARATE COVENANT by itself? Has it been considered in the light here analyzed?

Let us analyze it further. It is a SIGN between them -- pointing to Him as their God, and to them as His chosen people. So such a sign should point to Him AS GOD, and to them AS HIS PEOPLE. Does this Sabbath sign do that? Yes, in a way nothing else could. The proof that He is God is the fact of Creation. By pointing to Creation -- by being a memorial of Creation, it points to Him as the true God. Now how does it point to them as His people? If you will notice whenever God has chosen anyone for special office, He has put them to the test of OBEDIENCE. The test is always one of obedience, and if one can pass that test, they qualify for the office of being an Israelite, one of God's chosen.

Now consider Isaiah 56:3-7, and see, that by keeping the Sabbath, the national sign of Israel, an outsider may become grafted in. I know Paul in the new Testament has quite a little to say about Gentiles becoming adopted Israelites, but Paul gives other qualifications. Suppose now, the whole law, the Ten Commandments and all, were abolished, as the vast majority of churches contend. Will any contend that this separate Sabbath covenant, this everlasting, perpetual covenant, was PART OF THE LAW OF MOSES? I think they cannot. It is distinctly separate, here. A separate covenant by itself. The national sign of Israel. This covenant, surely, was not abolished at the Cross. This covenant, surely, is still binding today.

Of course that involves the question of who, today is Israel? Just the Jews? The Jews who are the remnant of the house of Judah, plus the Ten Lost Tribes, who were a separate nation called the House of Israel. Shall we say that Israel today is the saved people who keep the Sabbath, the national sign? Paul appears to specify salvation and acceptance of Jesus Christ and His teachings as the requisite to becoming one of Israel. According to this: Jewish Sabbath-keepers who do not accept Jesus are cut off. Further, according to Exodus 31:12-18, "converted" people who are not Jews, and who keep Sunday and not Sabbath, are not of Israel, because they have been cut off from Israel by rejecting Israel's national sign. According to this, then, the body of Israel, today, becomes those who accept Jesus, observe His teachings and keep the Sabbath. When we consider Israel in this light, ONLY Israel can be saved.

Which Day is The Sabbath
of the New Testament?

Which day did Christ and the Apostles observe? Which day did Paul teach Gentile converts to observe? HOW did the day become changed from the seventh to the first day of the week?

We have been reared in a Sunday-observing world. Naturally, we have taken Sunday-observance for granted. Naturally, the idea of a different day as the true Sabbath-day strikes us as fanatical and absurd.

Yet today some are telling us SATURDAY is the right day. They insist the SEVENTH day is the only day the Bible anywhere commands us to keep. They even claim we are sinning -- that we have the "Mark of the Beast" and shall suffer the seven last plagues -- if we observe Sunday instead of keeping the seventh day.

Many False Prophets

Jesus warned that many false prophets would appear, deceiving many. So what is the TRUTH? How can we KNOW?

Let all remember each of us shall stand before the judgment-seat of Christ! We shall be JUDGED, not by our sincerity in what we have always believed thru careless assumption, nor by our sincerity in following some NEW teaching without proof! We shall be judged by the BIBLE, God's Word!

How to PROVE the Truth

"All Scripture," we read in II Timothy 3:16, "is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction." Again, the command to us is, "PROVE ALL THINGS."

We must be willing to be corrected, if wrong. We must be careful not to be blown about "with every wind of doctrine." We must free our minds of all prejudice.

We must be able and willing to study BOTH sides honestly, laying our ideas and desires on the shelf, prayerfully asking God for guidance.

If we already are right, honest investigation will but confirm it.

If we are WRONG, we should want to know it. And we shall quickly, willingly, as a little child accept the TRUTH as God reveals it, whatever that truth may be, if our hearts are right with Him! Perhaps this very study may be the TEST!

On the following pages is a brief, terse, outline of ONE PHASE of this many-sided question. Explanation of other phases, answering other questions that may come up, will be supplied on request.

These three facts are self-evident:

(1)Sunday is the first day of the week. See any calendar, dictionary, or encyclopedia. Is it, then, by BIBLE authority, "the Christian Sabbath," or truly the "Lord's Day," as it is popularly called today?

(2)Jesus kept the SABBATH, Luke 4:16. It was His custom. The Sabbath He kept was the same day of the week the Jews observed, for the minister and congregation were all in the synagogue, verse 20, and the Pharisees continually rebuked Jesus for healing on the Sabbath day.

(3)The Sabbath Jesus kept was the seventh day of the week. Three days after His crucifixion, this Sabbath still was the day before the first day of the week, Matthew 28:1. Therefore it was not just any day in seven, it was the seventh day of the week. See also Luke 23:56 and 24:1.

BUT . . . was the day CHANGED, by Christ or the apostles, after this, to the first day of the week so that Sunday is now the New Testament Christian Sabbath? Does the NEW TESTAMENT someplace show us that SUNDAY is the true Lord's Day and command Christians to observe it? LET US SEE!

Is "Sunday" Mentioned in the New Testament?

This change could not be made, -- a different day, the FIRST day of the week, could not be established by New Testament BIBLE authority, except in some text or texts employing the phrase "first day of the week," or the word "Sunday."

The word "Sunday" does not appear any place in the Bible.

But the phrase "first day of the week" is found in the New Testament. It occurs in exactly EIGHT places. So it will not take long to examine these eight texts employing this phrase.

If the day was changed by BIBLE authority, -- if Christians are to find any BIBLE AUTHORITY whatsoever for observing Sunday as the "Lord's Day" today, then we must find that authority in one of these eight texts!

Let us acknowledge at the outset, since the seventh day of the week is clearly established as the Bible Sabbath up until the time of the Cross, that there can be no BIBLE AUTHORITY for Sunday observance unless we find it clearly and plainly stated in one of these eight New Testament passages.

So let us examine them carefully, honestly, prayerfully.

The Day AFTER Sabbath

(1)Matthew 28:1, "In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre." This is the first place in the Bible where "the first day of the week" is mentioned. Matthew wrote these words, under inspiration of the Holy Spirit, six years after the New Testament Church came into being. The text says that late on the Sabbath day it was drawing TOWARD the first day of the week. So this Scripture, we must admit, tells us plainly that three days and three nights after all that was done away; had been securely "nailed to the Cross," the Sabbath was still the day BEFORE the first day of the week -- still the seventh day of the week.

One point is here plainly proved. Many tell us that the Sabbath command was merely for "one day in seven" -- that it did not have to be THE seventh day of the week, but merely the seventh part of time. They argue that Sunday, being one day out of seven, fulfills the command. But here is a passage in the NEW Testament, inspired by the Holy Spirit six years after the beginning of the NEW Testament Church, stating in plain language that, three days after all abolished things had been done away, the Sabbath still existed and that it was the seventh day of THE WEEK -- the day before the FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK. That much is proved, and must remain settled for all who honestly seek and accept BIBLE authority. But, was the day changed later?

(2)Mark 16:2, "And very early in the morning THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun." This is merely Mark's version of the sunrise visit to the tomb. It was written ten years after the crucifixion. This first day of the week, also, was "AFTER the Sabbath was PAST," according to verse 1. So this text proves the same thing as the one above -- that the first day of the week was not at that time (three days after the crucifixion) the Sabbath, but the day AFTER the Sabbath. The Sabbath, then, still was the SEVENTH day of the week.

A Common Work Day

(3)Mark 16:9, "Now when Jesus was risen, early the FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom He had cast seven devils." This text speaks of Jesus' appearance to Mary Magdalene later the same day, -- the day AFTER the Sabbath.

Nothing here calls the first day of the week the Christian Sabbath, we must admit. Nothing here calls it "The Lord's Day." Nothing here hallows Sunday or says God made it holy. Nothing here commands us to observe it. Nothing here sets it apart as a memorial of the Resurrection, or for any purpose. No command or example of REST on this day -- no authority for observing Sunday here.

(4)Luke 24:1, "Now UPON THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing their spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them."

This text tells the same event recorded by Matthew and Mark, and it shows that on THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK these women came to do the work of a common week-day, AFTER having rested the Sabbath day "according to the Commandment."

For we read, in the verse just before this, "And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment." Shall we say these women did not yet know the commandment was abolished? No, we cannot, for this statement was not made by the women, but inspired by the HOLY GHOST, who did know whether it was abolished. And it was written 28 years after the establishing of the New Testament Church! The Holy Ghost THEN inspired the direct statement that the rest of these women on the Sabbath day was according to the commandment, which statement would not be possible had the commandment been abolished.

This text, then, establishes Sunday as a common work day, three days after the crucifixion, and it further establishes that at that time the command to rest on the Sabbath had not been abolished.

(5)John 20:1, "THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre."

This, written 63 years after the crucifixion, is merely John's version, describing the same visit to the tomb. It confirms the facts above.

Was This a Religious Meeting, to Celebrate the Resurrection?

(6)John 20:19, "Then the same day at evening, being THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you."

Let us examine this carefully, for some claim this was a religious service called for the purpose of celebrating the Resurrection. But notice this is the same first day of the week that FOLLOWED the Sabbath. It was Jesus' first opportunity to appear to His disciples. For three and a half years He had been constantly with them, on ALL days of the week. His meeting with them, of itself, could not establish any day as a Sabbath.

Were they assembled to celebrate the Resurrection, thus establishing Sunday as the Christian Sabbath in honor of the Resurrection? The text says they were assembled "for fear of the Jews." The Jews had just taken and crucified their Master. They were afraid. The doors were shut because of their fear -- probably bolted. Why were they assembled? "FOR FEAR OF THE JEWS" according to this text, and also because they all lived together in this upper room, Acts 1:13. They could not have assembled to celebrate the Resurrection for THEY DID NOT BELIEVE JESUS WAS RISEN (Mark 16:14; Luke 27:37, 39, 41). Nothing in this text calls this day "Sabbath," or "Lord's Day," or any sacred title. Nothing here sets it apart, makes it holy. No authority here for changing a command of God!

Lord's Supper Day -- or Work Day -- WHICH?

(7)Acts 20:7, "And upon THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together."

Here, at last, we find a religious meeting on the first day of the week. But it was not a SUNDAY meeting!

Notice, Paul continued his speech until midnight! "And there were many LIGHTS in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together." It was AFTER SUNSET, prier to midnight, the first day of the week. Now at that time the first day of the week did not begin at midnight, as man begin it today. It began, and the seventh day ended, AT SUNSET! All Bible days begin and end at SUNSET. Throughout the Roman world at that time, and for a few hundred years afterward, days began and ended at sunset. The practice of beginning the new day at midnight was started much later. Therefore this meeting, and Paul's preaching, took place during the hours we now call SATURDAY NIGHT -- it was not a Sunday meeting at all!

WHY Paul Remained Behind

Let us, now, pick up the thread of the narrative related in this passage. Begin in verse 6:

"We sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them at Troas in five days; where we abode seven days. And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, READY TO DEPART ON THE MORROW."

Paul and his companions had been in this town of Troas seven days. His companions had left by ship after sunset. Paul remained behind for a farewell meeting. He preached until midnight, "ready to depart on the morrow." At break of day -- sunrise Sunday morning -- Paul departed, verse 11.

Now notice what his companions had done. "And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot. And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in," verses 13-14.

Look at this on the map. Paul's companions had to sail around a peninsula -- a distance of fifty or sixty miles, while Paul afoot, walked across, a distance of 19 and a half miles. He was able to walk this distance in shorter time than they could sail the much longer distance, which gave Paul the opportunity to remain behind after they left, for this last farewell sermon and visit.

Now do you see what actually happened? Paul's companions were engaged in the labor of rowing and sailing a boat while Paul was preaching that Saturday night and early Sunday morning -- on the first day of the week. They had set sail Saturday night, AFTER THE SABBATH HAD ENDED. Paul remained behind for one more last farewell sermon. Then, at break of day Sunday morning, Paul set out afoot, indulging in the labor of a 19 and a half mile walk from Troas to Assos! He waited till the Sabbath was past for this long walk -- a good hard day's work, if you ever tried it! He did it on the first day of the week a common work day!

What "Break Bread" Means

But does this text not say, as many claim today, that the disciples always held communion every first day of the week? NOT AT ALL!

In the first place, it says nothing about anything being done EVERY first day of the week. It relates the events of this one particular first day of the week, ONLY. It is not speaking of any CUSTOMS, but of the events occurring as Paul and his companions concluded their seven-day visit in passing by this town.

Jesus had introduced the Lord's Supper as part of the Passover, at the beginning of the annual "days of unleavened bread." No longer could they kill lambs or eat the roasted body of Passover Lambs, after Christ, OUR Passover, had been once slain for us. Yet the Passover was ordained FOREVER, Exodus 12:24. At His last Passover supper Jesus substituted the wine as the emblem of His blood, instead of the blood of the slain lamb. He substituted the unleavened bread for the roast body of the lamb as the symbol of His body, broken for us. The disciples continued to observe Passover annually, now in the form of the Lord's Supper using only the bread and wine, as a MEMORIAL, I Corinthians 11:24, of Christ's DEATH, I Corinthians 11:26, showing His death till He come again. They continued to observe the days of unleavened bread, Acts 20:6.

This year they had observed the days of unleavened bread and the Communion service at Philippi, after which they came to Troas in five days where they remained seven days.

Disciples often fasted on the Sabbath in those days. Consequently, after the Sabbath day had ended, at sunset, "upon the first day of the week, -- the disciples came together to BREAK BREAD."

People have ASSUMED this expression to mean the taking of Communion. But notice! Paul preached, and continued preaching until midnight. They had no opportunity to stop and "break bread" until then. When Paul "therefore was come up again" -- after restoring the one who had fallen down from the third balcony -- "and had broken bread, AND EATEN."

Note it! "Broken bread AND EATEN." This breaking bread was not Communion -- simply eating a meal. This expression was commonly used of old to designate a meal. It still is used in that sense in parts of even the United States.

Notice Luke 22:16, where Jesus was introducing the Lord's Supper, taking it with His disciples. He said, "I will not any more eat thereof until it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God." Yet, the day after His resurrection, after walking with the two disciples to Emmaus, as "he sat at MEAT with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them," Luke 24:30. Here Jesus "brake bread" but it was not the Lord's Supper, which He said He would NOT take again. It was a meal -- "He sat AT MEAT."

Notice Acts 2:46. The disciples, "continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness." Here again "breaking bread" means EATING MEAT. Not on the first day of the week, but DAILY.

Again, when Paul was shipwrecked on the voyage to Rome, the sailors had been fasting out of fright. But "Paul besought them all to take MEAT, saying, "This day is the fourteenth day that ye have tarried and continued fasting, having taken nothing. Wherefore I pray you to take some MEAT: for this is for your health -- And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat," Acts 27:33-35. Here Paul broke bread to give to unconverted sailors who were hungry.

The truth is, NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE is the expression "breaking of bread," or "to break bread," used to signify observance of the Lord's Supper. In all those texts it means, simply, eating a meal. So, when we read in Acts 20:7, 11, "the disciples came together to break," and how Paul had "broken bread and EATEN," we know by Scripture interpretation it referred only to eating food as a meal, not to a Communion service.

What Was This COLLECTION?

We come now to the 8th and last place where the term "first day of the week" occurs in the Bible.

(8)I Corinthians 16:2, "Upon the FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK let everyone of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him."

Often we see this text printed on the little offering envelopes in the pews of popular churches, and we have been told that this text sets THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK as the time for taking up the church collection for the carrying on of God's work, paying the minister, etc.

Let us begin with the first verse and really catch the true intended meaning of this verse.

"Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order of the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come."

This speaks of a collection -- but for WHOM -- for WHAT? Note it! Not for the preacher -- not for evangelism -- but "the collection FOR THE SAINTS." The poor saints at Jerusalem were suffering from drought and famine. They needed, not money, but FOOD. Notice Paul had given similar instruction to other churches. Now observe his instruction to the Romans:

"But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints. For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia (where the Corinthian Church was located) to make a certain contribution for the poor saints which are at Jerusalem . . . When, therefore, I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain," Romans 15:25-28.

Ah! Did you catch it? It was not money, but FRUIT that was being sealed for shipment to the poor saints at Jerusalem!

Now turn back to I Corinthians 16. Paul is speaking concerning a collection FOR THE SAINTS. Upon the first day of the week each one of them is instructed to do what? Look at it! Does it say drop a coin in the collection plate at a church service? Not at all!

It says "let everyone of you lay by him IN STORE." Note it! LAY BY! STORE UP! Store up BY HIMSELF -- at home! Not lay by at the church house -- lay by HIM -- at home.

Now WHY? "that there be no GATHERINGS when I come." Men GATHER fruit out of the orchard -- they GATHER vegetables out of the ground, to be STORED UP. But putting coins in a collection plate at church, or handing in your tithe-envelope could not be called a GATHERING, but an offering or collection.

Notice further: "And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem. And if it be meet that I go also, they (more than one) shall go with me," verses 3-4.

Apparently it was going of require several men to carry this collection, gathered and stored up, to Jerusalem. If it were tithe or offering for the minister or the spread of the Gospel, Paul could have carried the money alone.

So, once again, the last and final text in the Bible where we find "the FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK" mentioned, it is a WORK DAY -- a day for gathering fruit and food out of the orchards and the fields and gardens, and storing it up. It was to be the FIRST labor of the week, hence the first day of the week, as soon as the Sabbath was past!

No Bible Authority

So, finally, we find upon honest examination that NOT ONE of the texts speaking about "THE FIRST DAY OF THE WEEK" sets it apart as a rest day. Not one makes it holy, calls it the Sabbath or by any other sacred title. In EVERY case, the first day of the week was a common work day.

In NONE of them was there a religious meeting and preaching service being held on the hours we now call SUNDAY. In NONE of them can we find a single shred of BIBLE AUTHORITY for Sunday observance! There is no record in the Bible of celebrating the Resurrection on Sunday.

Sometimes Revelation 1:10 is used as Bible authority for calling Sunday "The LORD'S DAY." It says: "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice." But this does not say the "first day of the week," or "Sunday" is the "day" here called "the Lord's day." As a matter of fact, it is not speaking of ANY day of the week at all, but of "the Day of the Lord," -- the time of the coming PLAGUES, climaxing in the coming of Christ, and the millennium. This is the THEME of the Revelation. But, if one wants to argue, and insist upon this text applying to some definite day of the week, he shall have to look elsewhere to see WHICH day THE BIBLE calls "The LORD'S DAY." For this text does not designate ANY day of the week.

But Jesus said He was Lord of the SABBATH, and if He is LORD of that day, then it belongs to Him, and is His day, and therefore the Sabbath is the Lord's Day, Mark 2:28. Isaiah 58:13 calls the Sabbath (the seventh day of the week) "MY HOLY DAY." God is speaking. So the Sabbath is THE LORD'S DAY.

In the original commandment, in Exodus 20:10, we read: "The seventh day is the Sabbath OF THE LORD THY GOD." Not MY day, or your day. Sunday is MY day. So is Tuesday, and every other week-day, for my labor and my own needs. But the seventh day is NOT mine -- it is THE LORD'S! It belongs to HIM, and He made it HOLY, and commanded us to KEEP it that way. We have no right to use it for ourselves. It is HIS DAY!

The TRUE SABBATH of the NEW Testament!

Now briefly let us look thru the New Testament to find WHICH DAY Paul kept, and taught Gentile converts to keep.

Notice which day Paul and Barnabus used for preaching to Gentiles:

(1)Acts 13:14-15, 42-44, "But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue ON THE SABBATH DAY, and sat down. And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on."

Then Paul stood up, and spoke, preaching Christ to them.

"And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the GENTILES besought that these words might be preached to them THE NEXT SABBATH."

Now since Paul was preaching "the grace of God," (verse 43), here was his opportunity to straighten out these Gentiles, and explain that the Sabbath was done away. Why should he wait a whole week, in order to preach to THE GENTILES on THE NEXT SABBATH? If the day had now been changed to Sunday, why did not Paul tell them they would not have to wait a week, but the very next day, Sunday, was the proper day for this service? But notice what Paul did do . . . .

"And the NEXT SABBATH DAY came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God." Here Paul waited a whole week, passing up a Sunday, in order to preach to the GENTILES upon the Sabbath day.

Gentiles Met on SABBATH

(2) Acts 15:1-2, 5, 14-21. Study this whole passage carefully. Certain men had come down from Judaea to Antioch, teaching that the Gentile converts there must be circumcised and keep the law of Moses to be saved. Quite a dissention arose between them and Paul and Barnabus. So it was decided Paul and Barnabus would go to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about the question.

At the conference at Jerusalem, James gave the decision. "Wherefore my sentence is," he pronounced, (verses 19-21), -- that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollution of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood."

He did not say they should not keep the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments were not in question -- but only the Law of Moses, which was an altogether DIFFERENT law. He merely mentioned four prohibitions, and otherwise they did not need to observe the law of Moses.

But why WRITE this sentence to them? Note it! "For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues EVERY SABBATH DAY," verse 21.

Do you see it? Judaizing teachers were reading the Law of Moses and teaching people in the synagogues EVERY SABBATH DAY. The apostles were WRITING this decision concerning the Law of Moses, BECAUSE GENTILE CONVERTS WERE GOING TO CHURCH ON THE SABBATH DAY, and would hear this false teaching. In order to counteract it, and protect the Gentiles from it, the written message was sent. It shows that the GENTILE CONVERTS HAD STARTED KEEPING THE SABBATH DAY, AND WENT TO CHURCH ON THAT DAY! And the Apostles' letter did not reprove them for this Sabbath-keeping, or even mention it.

This is very significant, since GENTILES HAD NEVER KEPT THE SABBATH. Therefore it is something these Gentiles had STARTED doing after they were converted under the teaching of Paul and Barnabus!

A Sabbath in Philippi

(3)Acts 16:12-15. Here we find Paul and Silas at Philippi. And "we were in that city abiding certain days. And ON THE SABBATH we went out of the city by the river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither. And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, . . . and when she was baptized . . . ."

Here again Paul and his companions waited until the Sabbath, and then went to a place of worship, and preached, and this woman, probably a Gentile, was converted. The passage indicated it was the CUSTOM to meet there on the Sabbath, and that it was CUSTOM for Paul and his companions to go to a place of prayer and worship when the Sabbath day came.

Paul Worked Week-days, and Kept the SABBATH

(4)Acts 18:1-11, "After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth; and found a certain Jew named Aquila . . . with his wife Priscilla . . . and came unto them. And because he was of the same craft, he abode with them, and wrought; for by their occupation they were tentmakers, and he reasoned in the synagogue EVERY SABBATH, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks."

If we could but find one text in the New Testament giving as strong authority for Sunday observance as this one does for Sabbath-keeping, we should certainly have BIBLE AUTHORITY for it! Here Paul WORKED week-days, but went to church and taught GENTILES as well as Jews every SABBATH.

Now the Commandment says; "Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work," just as much as it says "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." There is just as much a command to work six days as there is to rest the seventh. And so if the day had been changed, Paul would have had to work Sabbaths, in order to go to church and preach every Sunday. But here he WORKED week days and went to church and preached EVERY SABBATH -- not just on one particular occasion -- it says EVERY SABBATH.

He preached Christ, and the Gospel of the Kingdom. And when the Jews became offended and blasphemed, he turned away from the Jews altogether, and from then on preached TO GENTILES ONLY, (verse 6), and he continued there a year and six months (verse 11), -- working week days -- preaching to Gentiles ONLY -- EVERY SABBATH!

What MORE conclusive proof could we desire? What STRONGER Bible evidence than this, as to the true Sabbath of the New Testament? For a year and a half Paul continued working week-days -- six days -- including Sundays -- and preaching to GENTILES exclusively EVERY SABBATH! Certainly it was his custom and manner! Certainly He could not have done this had the Sabbath been done away, or changed.

Paul COMMANDS Gentiles to Keep the Sabbath

To these Gentile-born at Corinth, Paul COMMANDED: "Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ," I Corinthians 11:1.

And Paul "as his manner was, went in unto them, and three SABBATH DAYS reasoned with them out of the Scriptures," Acts 17:2. It was his MANNER -- his CUSTOM, as we have seen by ample evidence showing a total of eighty-four different Sabbaths Paul is shown specifically to have kept.

Did he follow Jesus in this? Why, CERTAINLY! Jesus, "as his custom was. . . went into the synagogue ON THE SABBATH DAY," Luke 4:16.

It was Jesus' custom. Paul followed Him, and COMMANDED the Gentile converts to follow him, even as he followed Christ.

The question for us, today, is, "Are WE willing to follow in His steps?" Jesus came to set us an example, that we should FOLLOW HIS STEPS. If we, like Paul, are CRUCIFIED with Christ, and HE lives HIS life IN us, Christ IN us will still keep the Sabbath, for He is the SAME, yesterday, today, and forever!

There is much additional NEW Testament authority for Sabbath-keeping. Other booklets to be issued will cover many other phases of this many-sided question. Send your request. Questions and honest objections will be answered on request.

I found the majority of this writing on the InterWeb but don't recall where or who it is by but the truth is the truth and it needed to be reprinted here in the hope that just one person may come to understand the serious nature of this covenant and why it is so relevant today. Don't believe anyone who tells you GOD and Jesus did away with the 7th Day Sabbath, it is forever (perpetual) and for all mankind.

Come soon King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

The Science of Quantum Physics Proves Intelligent Design at Nanoscale (meaning it is everywhere and in everything)

"How can nothing added to nothing explode into everything?" Really?

Mathematicians and scientists seemed to ignore a simple equation familiar to all grammar school children: 0 + 0 = 0

For the Big Bang Theory to work, this always-true equation had to be false—at least once—and if this basic equation is unreliable, so is the rest of the math used to prove the Big Bang.

Phi is a mathematical constant found in everything in the natural world and universe expressed as 1.618 also called the Golden Ratio. It's existence is fact and can be seen at the Quantum Physics Level which is a branch of physics which deals with physical phenomena of energy and mass at nanoscopic scales, such as magnetic waveforms. Scientists recently discovered that the Golden Ratio of 1.618 was consistently found at the quantum nanoscale the very essence of everything.

On the atomic scale particles do not behave as we know it in the macro-atomic world. New properties emerge which are the result of an effect known as the Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. In order to study these nanoscale quantum effects the researchers have focused on the magnetic material cobalt niobate. It consists of linked magnetic atoms, which form chains just like a very thin bar magnet, but only one atom wide and are a useful model for describing ferromagnetism on the nanoscale in solid state matter.

When applying a magnetic field at right angles to an aligned spin the magnetic chain will transform into a new state called quantum critical, which can be thought of as a quantum version of a fractal pattern. Prof. Alan Tennant, the leader of the Berlin group, explains “The system reaches a quantum uncertain — or a Schrödinger cat state. This is what we did in our experiments with cobalt niobate. We have tuned the system exactly in order to turn it quantum critical.”

By tuning the system and artificially introducing more quantum uncertainty the researchers observed that the chain of atoms acts like a nanoscale guitar string. Dr. Radu Coldea from Oxford University, who is the principal author of the paper and drove the international project from its inception a decade ago until the present, explains: "Here the tension comes from the interaction between spins causing them to magnetically resonate. For these interactions we found a series (scale) of resonant notes: The first two notes show a perfect relationship with each other. Their frequencies (pitch) are in the ratio of 1.618…, which is the golden ratio famous from art and architecture." Radu Coldea is convinced that this is no coincidence. "It reflects a beautiful property of the quantum system -- a hidden symmetry. Actually quite a special one called E8 by mathematicians, and this is its first observation in a material," he explains.

Far above our heads, beyond planet Earth and our solar system, galaxies even follow the Golden Ratio. Hurricanes on earth also exhibit the Golden Ratio, which “…makes the Golden Ratio’s presence all the more remarkable,” because “Hurricanes are structures in the gravitational field of the Earth, while galaxies are self-gravitating objects in space,” writes Robert Roy Britt for Space.com.
This proportion of 1.618 can be seen in the architecture of the Parthenon of ancient Greece. Artists and architects have used the Golden Ratio for thousands of years to create visually pleasing works. Beyond this, Phi can also be found throughout nature, including the human body. For example, the human finger is divided into four sections (2,3,5,8), the ratio of which equals the Golden Ratio of 1.618. The human ear is also proportioned according to Phi.

Everything science has explored at these quantum levels of investigative endeavor have produced overwhelming evidence of intelligent design so if you still hold out and believe what you see on science tv etc. know that you are being lied to. I'd doubt seriously that these brilliant talking heads are even aware of this discovery for if they were they would, in a moment of pure intellectual honesty, have to finally see that zero plus zero does not then explode and produce everything in the universe, pure non-sensecal on their part yours if you believe in the conventional randomness and chaos of this current scientific theory called the Big Bang. God's fingerprints are everywhere you just have to look on your own and not be a lazy fool and look where your told to look.

The deception of scientific false truth is simple to achieve when you deal with simpleminded and ignorant people who only look through the lenses handed to them by others because of laziness but they flat out refuse, for no good reason, to use the lenses God gave to each of us.

The most brilliant mathematicians using the most powerful supercomputers in the world would fail to settle this question for one simple reason: You can’t use equations to prove the existence of love.
That’s what God is. That is His essence, and love can’t be dissected, calculated, analyzed or measured.

Who Owns the World?

There 43,000 International Companies in this world and those international companies are owned by 730 international shareholders and of those 730 international shareholders 161 are the richest people on earth and those 161 individuals and those 161 people control 93% of the worlds wealth, power and products but in America we are told that the rich and powerful that have influence and control in our world are those who have $200,000 in gross income per year. I guess the Mom and Pop candy store downtown are the real evil people in our America, really? When you own the world’s mass media outlets you can have the finger pointed at those who truly are the engine that makes the world work and thrive, stop the engine, create a new paradigm and gain more power, simple equation and a foregone conclusion. 

Do you know what ghosts really are?

I had a discussion recently where I hurt some dear to me when and I have deeply regretted it since and certainly wish I could make any sort of amends to repair the hurt I caused this person but unfortunately there is little I can say or do in this instance because the truth is sometimes painful. The subject of ghosts came up and I explained how I had been on a mission to figure out just what was going. I grew up believing in ghosts and wee things that go bump in the night, typical Irish country bumpkin stories and visuals were reinforced regularly by sightings and more stories.  I never gave it much thought until I was 14 years old and began asking serious questions of my churches priests (yes, I was Catholic) where I received zero information on this subject and many other subjects on the Catholic faith. I soon realized I would get no answers so I struck out on my own, without my Father and Mothers knowledge, to see if there were any answers for me in the secular world. This is when I somehow met a family, along with others, who said they were in contact with the other side on a regular basis and that if I wanted I could join them to see for myself one early evening. I agreed to go as an observer and wanted no part in any ceremony or any other mumbo jumbo which they assured was not required because they had a an ongoing relationship with some spirits. We went to the graveyard for added effect and sat quietly in 2 separate cars, my friend and 2 others in one car and 3 people and me in the other where we sat for about 20 minutes. Nothing was said that I could understand and it was pretty much low murmurings of wish I had no idea what was being mumbled. We waited an additional 10 minutes and then it happened. I remember this event like it happened an hour ago and still clearly see what I saw that early evening. The young guy sitting next to me, he was the son of the spooky family and about 16 years old turned towards me in the back seat and a sickly greenish/yellow glow appeared all around him like an luminous radiation or aura, it finally coalesced around his entire body and the outside edges of this illumination became clear and sharp. I sat amazed at this and kept looking for flashlights or some other means by which these people were trying to fool me, there was nothing and no one was moving or talking, I looked back to the face of the young man and saw a face begin to develop in front of his face, it was startling and but I continued to watch its formation until I saw it wasn’t a human face but rather a face that belonged on a cathedral in Paris. As I stared at the face it showed no inclination to be alive or moving, that is until did move and I saw it was very much alive as the face extended itself from the body of the greenish glow to within a couple of inches of my face where smiled and a very evil presence emanated from it and filled me with absolute fear and dread and a need to get the heck out of there. I barely managed to get the door open and fall out of the car and start running when I heard them yelling that everything was OK and I turned to see no more green glow and everything looked normal again. I stopped and went to the other car with my friend inside and told him I done here and wanted to leave for home immediately, he agree.  I was confused and just didn’t know what to think at that moment but then my friend asked me was the greenish/yellow glow in the backseat with me. I nearly fell over with the realization that he had seen the glow also it wasn’t just a mind trick they had played on me. On the way home, just up the road, they were all smiling and telling me that they indeed have communications with spirits and asked me what I thought, I replied that I was convinced and needed no further proof of spirits being continually around us but I knew they were not ghosts of dead people but spirits of evil entities tied to Lucifer/Satan.  After much study and investigation I found the truth of the matter answered in the Scriptures.

I am writing this because I was so struck that I had caused a dear friend to suffer but I cannot take back anything I said because the truth of God’s word is the real Truth. I realized then that there are many people who have seen or heard from loved ones after death that it is a great comfort to them something I was truly unaware of because I have a rather scientific and analytical mind when it comes to these sorts of investigation and just see in black and white or truth and non-truth. I am truly sorry for any hurt. 
   
Question: “What does the Bible say about ghosts / hauntings?”

 Answer:  Is there such a thing as ghosts? The answer to this question depends on what precisely is meant by the term “ghosts.” If the term means “spirit beings,” the answer is a qualified “yes.” If the term means “spirits of people who have died,” the answer is “no.” The Bible makes it abundantly clear that there are spirit beings, both good and evil. But the Bible negates the idea that the spirits of deceased human beings can remain on earth and “haunt” the living.

Hebrews 9:27 declares, “Man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment.” That is what happens to a person’s soul-spirit after death—judgment. The result of this judgment is heaven for the believer (2 Corinthians 5:6-8; Philippians 1:23) and hell for the unbeliever (Matthew 25:46; Luke 16:22-24). There is no in-between. There is no possibility of remaining on earth in spirit form as a “ghost.” If there are such things as ghosts, according to the Bible, they absolutely cannot be the disembodied spirits of deceased human beings.

 The Bible teaches very clearly that there are indeed spirit beings that can connect with and appear in our physical world. The Bible identifies these beings as angels and demons. Angels are spirit beings who are faithful in serving God. Angels are righteous, good, and holy. Demons are fallen angels, angels who rebelled against God. Demons are evil, deceptive, and destructive. According to 2 Corinthians 11:14-15, demons masquerade as “angels of light” and as “servants of righteousness.” Appearing as a “ghost” and impersonating a deceased human being definitely seem to be within the power and abilities that demons possess.

 The closest biblical example of a “haunting” is found in Mark 5:1-20. A legion of demons possessed a man and used the man to haunt a graveyard. There were no ghosts involved. It was a case of a normal person being controlled by demons to terrorize the people of that area. Demons only seek to “kill, steal, and destroy” (John 10:10). They will do anything within their power to deceive people, to lead people away from God. This is very likely the explanation of “ghostly” activity today. Whether it is called a ghost, a ghoul, or a poltergeist, if there is genuine evil spiritual activity occurring, it is the work of demons.

 What about instances in which “ghosts” act in “positive” ways? What about psychics who claim to summon the deceased and gain true and useful information from them? Again, it is crucial to remember that the goal of demons is to deceive. If the result is that people trust in a psychic instead of God, a demon will be more than willing to reveal true information. Even good and true information, if from a source with evil motives, can be used to mislead, corrupt, and destroy.

 Interest in the paranormal is becoming increasingly common. There are individuals and businesses that claim to be “ghost-hunters,” who for a price will rid your home of ghosts. Psychics, séances, tarot cards, and mediums are increasingly considered normal. Human beings are innately aware of the spiritual world. Sadly, instead of seeking the truth about the spirit world by communing with God and studying His Word, many people allow themselves to be led astray by the spirit world. The demons surely laugh at the spiritual mass-deception that exists in the world today.

America in Bible Prophecy

Revelation 18:4 – And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.”

This is so important, I hope that you will look up the Scriptures, and pray about it, before you disregard!!!!!

I know the following is a little long but certainly not nearly as long as I could have made it but please bear with me here as I am simply trying to point out what the scriptures say about end times Babylon. Search all this out yourselves and to those who will see shall see a clearer picture of the times in which we live and the country we love and call home.  Remember that it is the people who are ruling who speak for the entire nation and not individual citizens but citizens are held accountable for those whom they put in charge over them. Does Washington D.C. hold to any biblical teachings today? No.
   
Is America, the most dominant and influential nation of the end times, really not found in Bible prophecy as most Christians believe? If that doesn’t sound right to you, then you are not alone. Revelation and Jeremiah talk about a dominant end time power named “Mystery Babylon the Great” which stands in the way of evil but at the same time is so wicked itself that God judges her before the rest of the world. Sadly, there is no better plain literal fulfillment of Babylon than America today. Except…how can God judge a nation who does so much good and not judge so many arguably worse nations like China or Iran? How can Babylon be a nation when it says it’s a “city?” A leading city is still today synonymous with the nation in which it is located i.e. Washington is the United States as Moscow is Russia or London is Great Britain.
Where is the blood of slain prophets “found in her?”

Matthew 23:34-35 (HCSB) “This is why I am sending you prophets, sages, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and hound from town to town.  So all the righteous blood shed on the earth will be charged to you…” This will become more prevalent as Christians become more and more persecuted.

In the last days the Bible talks about a dominant city that is a major center of commerce that will be destroyed in one hour, Mystery Babylon the Great. The churches will tell you it is referring to the Vatican in Rome or an entire political, religious or economic system (it is all these things in one) yet to hold this view as the only answer one must ignore 98% of the Scriptures. Making this assumption based on one verse to use as evidence is folly. It can be easily discerned with a new and correct understanding of God’s Word. That is how warped the whole Vatican theory is that most churches and prophecy ‘gurus’ preach today when it comes to Revelation chapters 17 and 18. Why? Why do they want our focus on something else rather than what the Bible is really speaking of?

Consider this: The former prophets all warned of this coming Great Babylon. Let’s look at what each one said about it:

 Isaiah said:
 
 1. Babylon would be noted for its architecture, buildings and skyline (Isaiah 13:22)
 2. Is the lone super power of the world (Isaiah 47:5, 8)
 3. Is the most respected and envied around the world and yet at the same time is hated by the world. (Isaiah 18:2)
 4. Has a unique and remarkable beginning, different from other nations and has been awe-inspiring from its conception. (Isaiah 18:2)
 5. Babylon would the QUEEN AMONG THE NATIONS (Isa 47:5, 7)
 6. Babylon would be an END TIME GREAT NATION (Rev 17, 18; Isa 13:6)
 7. Babylon is called a lady, and has the symbol of the Lady (Isa 47:7-9). “LADY LIBERTY” sits in the New York Harbor.
 8. Babylon is nation “peeled”, or timbered, a land of open fields (Isa 18:2)
 9. Babylon is land quartered by mighty rivers (Isa 18:2)
 10. Babylon is a land that is measured out, and populated throughout (Isa 18:2)
 11. Babylon destroys her own land, with pollution and waste (Isa 14:20, 18:2, 7)
 12. Babylon is the leading INDUSTRIAL NATION OF THE WORLD
 13. Babylon has a huge aviation program (Isa 14:13-14)
 14. Babylon is a REPUBLIC or a DEMOCRACY; it is ruled by many counsels (Isa 47:13)
 15. Babylon’s governmental system breaks down (Isa 47:13)
 16. Babylon is bogged down with deliberations and cannot govern properly (Isa 47:13)
 17. Babylon’s leaders use astrology, seers and mystics for guidance (Isa 47:13; Rev 18:2)
 18. Babylon labored in the occult from her very inception (Isa 47:12)
 19. Babylon is a nation of religious confusion (Isa 47:12-13)
 20. THE KING OF BABYLON is called LUCIFER, the ANTICHRIST (Isa 14:4-6)
 21. The King of Babylon will rule from THE GREAT CITY BABYLON (Isa 14:4-6; Rev 17: 18)
 22. A world government entity will rise up to rule the world from BABYLON THE CITY
 23. This entity will rise up and use the military power of Babylon the nation to RULE THE WORLD (Isa 14:4-6)
 24. Babylon is a nation of higher education and learning (Isa47:10, implied throughout)
 25. Babylon is a VIRGIN NATION; her lands untouched by major war (Isa 47:1).9. Babylon’s enemy will lie on the opposite side of the world, over the poles (Isa 13:5)
 26. The enemy of Babylon will be noted for her cruelty (Isa 13, 14, Jer 50, 51, Rev 17, 18)
 27. The people of Babylon would think they are God’s elect and eternal (Isa 47:7-8)
 28. The nation Babylon dwells carelessly before the Lord (Isa 47:8)
 29. Babylon becomes proud, haughty, and does not consider her end (Isa 47:7-8)
 30. Babylon deals in the occult, in sorceries and drugs (Isa 47:9, 12; Rev 18:23)
 31. The people of Babylon are deep into astrology and spiritism – ghosts (Isa 47:12; Rev 18:2)
 32. Babylon’s enemy will lie on the opposite side of the world, over the poles (Isa 13:5)

 Jeremiah prophesied:

 1. Babylon would be the center of a one world Luciferian religious movement (Jer 51:44)
 2. Babylon would be the youngest and greatest of the end time nations (Jer 50:12) USA
 3. Babylon would be the most powerful nation in the world (Isa 47, Jer 50, 51, Rev 18) USA
 4. Babylon would be the HAMMER OF THE WHOLE EARTH (Jer 50:23; Rev 18:23) USA
 5. Babylon would be the praise of the WHOLE EARTH (Jer 51:41) USA
 6. Babylon is a land rich in mineral wealth (Jer 51:13)
 7. Babylon is the leading agricultural nation of the world (Jer 50, 51; Rev 18)
 8. Babylon is the leading exporting nation in the world (Jer 51:13; Rev 18)
 9. Babylon is the leading importing nation of the entire world.(Jer 50, 51; Rev 18)
 10. Babylon is a nation filled with warehouses and granaries (Jer 50:26)
 11. Babylon is the leading INDUSTRIAL NATION OF THE WORLD (Isa 13, 47, Jer 50, 51; Rev 18)
 12. Babylon is noted for her horses (Jer 50:37) Think Kentucky
13. Babylon is noted for her cattle, sheep and other livestock (Jer 50:26, 27; Rev 18:13)
 14. Babylon is noted for her fine flour and mill operations (Rev 18:13)
 15. Babylon is a nation of farmers and harvests huge crops (Jer 50:16, 26, 27).28. Babylon has a huge aviation program (Isa 14:13-14; Jer 51:53; Hab 1:6-10)
 16. Babylon’s skies are filled with the whisper of aircraft wings (Isa 18:1; Jer 51:53)
 17. Babylon has a huge space industry, has “mounted up to the heavens” (Jer 51:53)
 18. Babylon fortifies her skies with a huge military aviation program (Jer 51:53)
 19. Babylon is portrayed as a leading in high tech weapons and abilities (Jer 51:53; Hab 1:6-10; implied throughout)
 20. Babylon is a coastal nation and sits upon MANY WATERS (Jer 51:13)
 21. Babylon is nation filled with a “mingled” people (Jer 50:37)
 22. Babylon is a SINGULAR NATION founded OUT OF MANY, ONE (Isa 13, 47, Jer 50, 51, Hab 1)
 23. Babylon was born as a CHRISTIAN NATION (Jer 50:12)
 24. Babylon turns upon its heritage and destroys it all in the end (Jer 50:11)
 25. Babylon’s Christian leaders lead their flock astray in prophecy and salvation (Jer 50:6; implied Rev 18:2)
 26. Babylon’s Christian leaders are “strangers” in the Lords Houses of Worship (Jer 51:51)
 27. Babylon sets of detention centers for Jews and Christians and rounds them up for extermination (Jer 50:7, 33; 51:35, 49; Rev 17:6; 18:24)
 28. Babylon has a mother nation that remains in existence from her birth to death (Jer 50: 12). (ENGLAND)
 29. The mother of Babylon has the symbol of the LION (Dan7:4; Eze 38:13; Jer 51:38; Psalms 17:12)
 30. The mother of Babylon will rule over her daughter her entire life (Dan 7:4; Jer 50:12). Follow the money and look and see which flag is dominate on Wall St.
 31. The mother of Babylon will be in a state of major decline as the end nears (Jer 50:12)
 32. Babylon is considered to be a lion’s whelp (Eze 38:13; Jer 51:38)
 33. Babylon will have the symbol of the EAGLE and builds her nest in the stars (Dan 7:4 EAGLE WINGS; Isa 14:13-14; Jer 51:53). Who else has a space program as we do?
34. Babylon is a huge producer and exporter of automobiles (Jer 50:37; Rev 18:13)
 35. Babylon is a nation of CRAFTSMEN, experts in their trade (Jer 50, 51, Rev 18:22)
 36. Babylon is a nation with a GREAT VOICE in world affairs (Jer 51:55)
 37 Babylon will be instrumental in the setting up of Israel in the Middle East, and is the home of God’s people (Jer 50:47; 51:45)
 38. Babylon will have a major enemy to her north (Jer 50:3, 9, 41)
 39. The enemy of Babylon will also have a huge aviation military machine (Jer 50:9, 14, Rev 18:8, 18 implied throughout)
 40. Babylon will have all of her borders cut off, and there will be no way of escape (Jer 50:28; 51:32)
 41. Babylon is land vast land with huge cities, towns and villages throughout (Implied throughout)
 42. Babylon will have been a huge missionary nation for Jesus Christ (Jer 50:11; 51:7)
 43. Babylon would be a home to multitudes of Jews who leave (Jer 50:4-6, 8; 51:6, 45)
 44. The people of Babylon would not know their true identity (Jer 50:6, implied throughout)
 45. The people of Babylon would grow mad upon their idols (Jer 50:2, 38; Hab 2:18)
 46. How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! -Jeremiah 50:23
 47. O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness. The LORD of hosts hath sworn by himself, saying, Surely I will fill thee with men, as with caterpillars; and they shall lift up a shout against thee. Jeremiah 51:12-14
 48. Plays a leadership role in Outer Space Exploration (Jer. 51:3)
 49. Is where the world’s leaders meet and assemble (Jer. 51:44)
 50. Incorporated many aspects of the old Babylonian religion (Jer. 50:2)

 The Apostle John said in the Book of Revelation:

 1. Babylon deals in the occult, in sorceries and drugs (Isa 47:9, 12; Rev 18:23)
 2. The people of Babylon would go into deep sins of all kinds (Rev 18:5)
 3. The people of Babylon would think they are God’s elect and eternal (Isa 47:7-8, Rev 18:7)
 4. The people of Babylon would enjoy the highest standard of living in the world (Rev 18:7)
 5. Babylon will be destroyed by nuclear fire or fire from above as in meteorites (Implied throughout)
 6. Babylon is land vast land with huge cities, towns and villages throughout (Implied throughout)
 7. The enemy of Babylon will be noted for her cruelty (Isa 13, 14, Jer 50, 51, Rev 17, 18)
 8. The enemy of Babylon will also have a huge aviation military machine (Jer 50:9, 14, Rev 18:8, 18 implied throughout)
 9. Babylon has a vast military machine (Jer 50:36; 51:30; Hab 1 & 2, Rev 13:4)
 10. This entity will rise up and use the military power of Babylon the nation to RULE THE WORLD (Isa 14:4-6; Hab 1 & 2, Rev 13, 17)
 11. Babylon is a huge producer and exporter of automobiles (Jer 50:37; Rev 18:13)
 12. Babylon is a nation of CRAFTSMEN, experts in their trade (Jer 50, 51, Rev 18:22)
 13. Babylon is noted for her jewelry of gold and silver (Rev 18:22)
 14. Babylon is a huge importer and exporter of spices (Rev 18:13)
 15. Babylon is a huge exporter of fine marble products (Rev 18:22)
 16. Babylon is noted for her iron and steel production (Rev 18:12)
 17. Babylon has huge corporations that have bases around the world (Rev 18:23, implied throughout)
 18. A world government entity will rise up to rule the world from BABYLON THE CITY (Isa 14; Hab 2, Rev 13, 17, 18)
 19. Babylon turns totally antichrist and is the leading antichrist power at the end (Rev 18:2; Isa 14:4-6)
 20. The King of Babylon will rule from THE GREAT CITY BABYLON (Isa 14:4-6; Rev 17: 18)
 21. Babylon turns upon its own people and imprisons and slays them by millions (Jer 50:7,33; 51:35; 39; Dan 7:25; Rev 13:7;17:6; 18:24)
 22. Babylon sets of detention centers for Jews and Christians and rounds them up for extermination (Jer 50:7, 33; 51:35, 49; Rev 17:6; 18:24)
 23. The people of Babylon are deep into astrology and spiritism (Isa 47:12; Rev 18:2)
 24. Babylon becomes the home of all antichrist religions in the world (Rev 18:2)
 25. Babylon’s Christian leaders lead their flock astray in prophecy and salvation (Jer 50:6; implied Rev 18:2)
26. Babylon falls to the occult just before her end by nuclear fire (Rev 18:2)
 27. Babylon’s leaders use astrology, seers and mystics for guidance (Isa 47:13; Rev 18:2)
 28. Babylon trades with all who have ships in the sea year round (Rev 18:17-18)
 29. Babylon is a nation filled with warm water seaports (Rev 18:17-19)
 30. Babylon is a huge exporter of MUSIC (Rev 18:22)
 31. Babylon’s musicians are known around the world (Rev 18:22)
 32. Babylon is noted for her cattle, sheep and other livestock (Jer 50:26, 27; Rev 18:13)
 33. Babylon is noted for her fine flour and mill operations (Rev 18:13)
 34. Babylon is the leading INDUSTRIAL NATION OF THE WORLD (Isa 13, 47, Jer 50, 51; Rev 18)
 35. Babylon is a the leading agricultural nation of the world (Jer 50, 51; Rev 18)
 36. Babylon is the leading exporting nation in the world (Jer 51:13; Rev 18)
 37. Babylon is the leading importing nation of the entire world.(Jer 50, 51; Rev 18)
 38. Babylon is center of world trade (Jer 51:44; Rev 17:18; 18:19) USA
 39. Babylon would grow to be the richest nation in the world (Rev 18:3, 7, 19, 23) USA
 40. All nations that traded with Babylon would grow rich (Rev 18:3) USA
 41. The merchants of Babylon were the GREAT MEN OF THE EARTH (Rev 18:23). USA, look at the huge multi-national corporations that exist, American companies (merchants) the greatest on Earth
 42. Babylon would the QUEEN AMONG THE NATIONS (Isa 47:5, 7; Rev 18:7) USA
 43. Babylon would be the most powerful nation in the world (Isa 47, Jer 50, 51, Rev 18) USA
 44. Babylon would be the HAMMER OF THE WHOLE EARTH (Jer 50:23; Rev 18:23) USA
 45. Babylon would be the center for the move to a global economic order (Rev 13:16)
 46. The Great City Babylon would be the economic nerve center of the world (Rev 18:3). New York is the Financial Capital of the World
 47. Babylon would be an END TIME GREAT NATION (Rev 17, 18; Isa 13:6)
 48. Babylon would have a huge seaport city within its borders (Rev 18:17). New York harbor is the biggest in the world
 49. The Great City Babylon is the home of a world government attempt (Rev 17:18). This can only be NEW YORK, where the United Nations sits
 50. Is considered intoxicating for its high society lifestyle (Rev. 17:2, 18:3, 23)
 51. Is noted for its elegant and extravagant lifestyle (Rev. 18:14)
 52. Is noted for being a city/nation of immigrants from all over the world (Rev. 18:15)
 53. Is noted for a massive population (Rev. 18:15)
 54. Is noted for its importation of drugs (Rev. 18:23)
 55. Is the leading center of Commerce (Rev. 17:2)
 56. Is the leading center of imports and consumption (Rev. 18:11)
 57. Is a leading center of manufacturing (Rev. 18:22)
 58. Is the center for world trade in gold, silver, copper, oil, precious gems, cloth, clothing, fashions, lumber, containers, household items, furniture, wine, livestock, transportation, health products, cosmetics, spices, marble, irony, and iron (Rev. 18:11-13)
 
There is no other city or nation on earth that could fulfill these requirements other than the United States of America. There are some who hold to the view this passage is referring only to New York City. In fact, it refers to both NYC and the entire nation. The term “city” translated from the Greek means city or nation. In this instance, it refers to a nation led by its chief city, which is New York City. So in some instances it is talking about New York City and in others the nation itself. And if you’re not convinced, go back and read all these prophecies again about the last great nation on earth.
 
 The Bible Codes confirm that America is Babylon, and that the beasts coming will rule here, will be here, and will take over and destroy this country on their way to global rule from Jerusalem. Isn’t it amazing that there are over 100 prophecies that only one super power nation in the last days could fulfill and the churches tell you today that America isn’t mentioned in last day’s prophecies? This all broke my heart.


Ecclesiastes 8:5: “Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.”