Thursday, April 30, 2015

The angel sends Philip to teach and baptize the Ethiopian Eunuch

This is proof that it is Jesus that changes lives and nothing else


(Acts 8:26 [KJV])
And the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza, which is desert.

(Acts 8:27 [KJV])
And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,

(Acts 8:28 [KJV])
 Was returning, and sitting in his chariot read Esaias the prophet.

(Acts 8:29 [KJV])
Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.

(Acts 8:30 [KJV])
And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest?

(Acts 8:31 [KJV])
And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he would come up and sit with him.

(Acts 8:32 [KJV])
 The place of the scripture which he read was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; and like a lamb dumb before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth:

(Acts 8:33 [KJV])
In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.

(Acts 8:34 [KJV])
And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?

(Acts 8:35 [KJV])
Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached unto him Jesus.

(Acts 8:36 [KJV])
And as they went on their way, they came unto a certain water: and the eunuch said, See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?

(Acts 8:37 [KJV])
And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

(Acts 8:38 [KJV])
And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

(Acts 8:39 [KJV])
And when they were come up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more: and he went on his way rejoicing.

(Acts 8:40 [KJV])
But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.

Source: The Bible.

Saturday, August 16, 2014

A call for martial law in Missouri

          
    

John Lewis Calls On Obama To Declare Martial Law In Ferguson, Mo.


Georgia Rep. John Lewis has called on President Obama to declare martial law in Ferguson, Mo.
The congressman made the public call Thursday afternoon as protesters continue to clash with police in Ferguson after a cop shot and killed unarmed black teen Michael Brown Saturday night. (RELATED: Is This America? Stunning Photos From Violent Protests In Ferguson, Mo.)
“People have a right to protest,” Lewis said on MSNBC. “They have a right to dissent. They have a right to march in an orderly, peaceful, non-violent fashion. And the press has a right to cover it. Ferguson, Mo. is not the Congo. It is not China. It is not Russia. We can do better.”
“President Obama should use the authority of his office to declare martial law,” he continued. “Federalize the Missouri National Guard to protect people as they protest.”

Saturday, February 15, 2014

SANCTIFY ME LORD BY YOUR WORD.....



John:17:17: Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
1Pe:3:15: But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:



"True sanctification comes through the working out of the principle of love. "God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." 1 John 4:16. The life of him in whose heart Christ abides, will reveal practical godliness. The character will be purified, elevated, ennobled, and glorified. Pure doctrine will blend with works of righteousness; heavenly precepts will mingle with holy practices.
Those who would gain the blessing of sanctification must first learn the meaning of self-sacrifice. The cross of Christ is the central pillar on which hangs the "far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." "If any man will come after Me," Christ says, "let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me." 2 Corinthians 4:17; Matthew 16:24. It is the fragrance of our love for our fellow men that reveals our love for God. It is patience in service that brings rest to the soul. It is through humble, diligent, faithful toil that the welfare of Israel is promoted. God upholds and strengthens the one who is willing to follow in Christ's way.
Sanctification is not the work of a moment, an hour, a day, but of a lifetime. It is not gained by a happy flight of feeling, but is the result of constantly dying to sin, and constantly living for Christ. Wrongs cannot be righted nor reformations wrought in the character by feeble, intermittent efforts. It is only by long, persevering effort, sore discipline, and stern conflict, that we shall overcome. We know not one day how strong will be our conflict the next. So long as Satan reigns, we shall have self to subdue, besetting sins to overcome; so long as life shall last, there will be no
stopping place, no point which we can reach and say, I have fully attained. Sanctification is the result of lifelong obedience."

 The Acts of the Apostles: By Ellen G White

Wednesday, July 3, 2013

FEW WILL LISTEN

God Has Sent Warnings, but Few Listen, July 3
And it shall come to pass at that time that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and punish the men who are settled in complacency, who say in their heart, “The Lord will not do good, nor will He do evil.” Zephaniah 1:12, NKJV. BLJ 197.1
We are near the close of time. I have been shown that the retributive judgments of God are already in the land. The Lord has given us warning of the events about to take place. Light is shining from His Word; yet darkness covers the earth, and gross darkness the people. “When they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them ...; and they shall not escape.” BLJ 197.2
It is our duty to inquire the cause of this terrible darkness, that we may shun the course by which men and women have brought upon themselves so great delusion. God has given the world an opportunity to learn and to obey His will. He has given them, in His Word, the light of truth; He has sent them warning, counsel, and admonition; but few will obey His voice. Like the Jewish nation, the majority, even of professed Christians, pride themselves on their superior advantages, but make no returns to God for these great blessings. BLJ 197.3
In infinite mercy a last warning message has been sent to the world, announcing that Christ is at the door and calling attention to God’s broken law. But as the antediluvians rejected with scorn the warning of Noah, so will the pleasure lovers of today reject the message of God’s faithful servants. The world pursues its unvarying round, absorbed as ever in its business and its pleasures, while the wrath of God is about to be visited on the transgressors of His law. BLJ 197.4

Our compassionate Redeemer, foreseeing the perils that would surround His followers at this time, has given them special warning: “Take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.”—Testimonies for the Church 5:99, 100. BLJ 197.5

Saturday, May 11, 2013

ALUMINUM......


 Dr Milton Teske, MD

 
On July 6, 1988 the worst mass-poisoning event in Britain’s history took place when a truck driver delivering 20 tons of aluminum sulfate to an unmanned water treatment facility accidently dumped it into the wrong tank (they used the same key for all the padlocks at the facility). The water supply to the town of Camelford became contaminated with high levels of aluminum.
Many of the residents developed urinary complaints, painful joints, blistering and peeling of skin, hair turning blue or green, vomiting and diarrhea, fibromyalgia, and short-term memory loss. When trying to clean the tank a few weeks later, they flushed it into the local river resulting in the death of over 60,000 salmon and trout. Aluminum concentrates in the bones and brain, and its main long term effects are seen here. Significant increases in dementia and Alzheimer’s disease were seen over the following years and autopsies showed high levels of aluminum in the bones and brains of these victims.
A very common Substance
The element aluminum (atomic number 13) is the third most abundant element on the surface of the earth — only oxygen and silicon are more prevalent. 
It is an extremely reactive element so it rarely occurs in nature as pure aluminum metal but rather as some aluminum compound having already undergone some chemical reaction with other substances. Its properties as a soft, light weight, corrosion resistant, electrical conducting metal have led to its being extensively used in automobile and aircraft design as well as thousands of other products we use everyday.
Not For use in h u m a n s
In spite of its abundance in the world around us, aluminum does not naturally occur in the human body. Indeed we can find no life form on planet earth that uses aluminum. Although many trace elements are needed by various enzymes for special purposes, we can find no animal or plant or microbe that uses aluminum for even a single enzyme or chemical reaction. Apparently when God created life, he saw no use for this highly reactive element in all of the complex chemical reactions that make up life. Aluminum can actually be quite toxic inside of the body.  If taken into the body, the kidneys try their best to eliminate it in the urine as quick as possible. Patients with renal insufficiency or failure are at a much higher risk for aluminum toxicity. We know that aluminum compounds can be absorbed through the skin or from the food we eat or the water we drink or absorbed from the smoke of cigarettes, or they can be injected directly into the body. These compounds can be transported in the blood and concentrated in the bones and the brain where they do most of their long-term damage.  We find high levels of aluminum in the brains of patients with dementia.
Aluminum in vaccines
Vaccines are made from viruses and bacteria — usually killed and broken into pieces, but occasionally alive, and your body recognizes these as foreign invaders and builds up an immune reaction against them. Today, all modern vaccines also contain, in addition to these foreign particles, adjuvants. Adjuvants are toxic chemicals (such as aluminum, mercury, and MSG) whose purpose is to fire up the immune system to make it more reactive.  So a much smaller amount of the actual foreign particles need to be used to get an immune response — thus significantly decreasing the cost to the pharmaceutical company to mass produce lots of the vaccine. The aluminum compounds from the vaccine are absorbed and concentrated in the cells of the brain including the microglia. Microglias are the immune cells whose job is to support and protect the neurons. Aluminum hyper activates the microglia cells which begin to pour out large amounts of toxic inflammatory substances that can be damaging to the neurons.
A brain specialist, Dr. Blaylock, has written extensively on the risks to the brain from the aluminum contained in these injections in the development of autism and dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.  “Studies have shown that these adjuvants, from a single vaccine, can cause immune over activation for as long as two years. This means that the brain microglia remain active, continuously pouring out destructive chemicals. In fact, one study found that a single injection of an immune activating substance could cause brain immune overactivation for over a year. This is very destructive.” 
By the time a baby is 18 months old, they will have received 26 shots vaccinating them against 16 different diseases and will have been injected with 5,000 mcg (5mg) of aluminum.
Pharmaceutical companies and government agencies claim that these vaccines are safe and are well worth the risk. However, it must be noted in their favor that over the last century vaccines have probably saved more lives than all other medications combined. Small pox has been eliminated, and tetanus and polio are almost never seen today. These are devastating and deadly diseases. For example, consider polio — even if your child survived, they would be ruined for life with major paralysis and other permanent nerve damage — this is a disease so terrible that it is probably worth certain risks to protect against it. So before we rush to throw out all the vaccines, to be fair let us consider some other sources of aluminum intake …
Other sources of aluminum
Cooking acidic foods like tomato sauce in uncoated aluminum pans will release aluminum into the food exposing us to similar amounts of aluminum as in vaccines.  Smoking cigarettes will expose us to seven times more aluminum than vaccines do.
Aluminum paralyzes the cells that make cerebral spinal fluid — the clear liquid that surrounds our brains — but it also paralyzes the cells in our sweat glands that make sweat, and so now it is added to all  “antiperspirant” deodorants.  Using antiperspirant deodorants will expose you to 12 times more aluminum than getting all your vaccinations. 
Large amounts of aluminum compounds are found in antacids that are freely used to relieve the burning caused by gastritis and ulcers. The recommended dose of aluminum hydroxide on the label of Maalox Extra Strength is 8,000 mg/day. This is enough to seriously deplete body phosphorus levels (the aluminum hydroxide binds to phosphorus preventing it from being absorbed). If you drink a glass of orange juice or take a calcium citrate supplement with your antacid you will increase aluminum absorption into your blood by 10 times (1,000%).Shellfish, an unclean meat that should never be consumed, is very high in aluminum from contamination in the sea. Many baking powders use aluminum compounds to cause a chemical reaction, resulting in little gas bubbles to make baked goods rise. Aluminum compounds do not cause the bitter taste that regular baking soda does and so is more
frequently used. Foods with significant aluminum levels from baking powders are: flour tortillas, muffins, doughnuts, cookies, pancakes, waffles, cupcakes, cakes, pastries, etc. They typically contain about 5mg to 15mg per muffin or serving of cake.  Perhaps this may be one of the reasons why God instructed an angel to warn his remnant people that they should completely avoid the use of baking powder and that they were not to eat of these baked goods.
The greatest Source of aluminum is …
But the winner of the prize for the highest level of aluminum is American cheese! Sodium aluminum phosphate is the most common substance used as an emulsifying agent in the processing of all processed cheeses. Almost all cheese sold in the grocery store is a processed cheese. If it is a crumbly cheese, it is probably aluminum-free, but if you can slice it or grate it or melt it — it has been processed by emulsification. This process surrounds every microscopic droplet of fat in the cheese with a layer of this aluminum compound that gives the cheese that desirable, soft, smooth, easily-sliceable texture, and it melts soft without separating so it can be used in a grilled cheese sandwich or any other place you would like to melt or grate some cheese.
Sodium aluminum phosphate (SALP) has been labeled as GRAS (generally regarded as safe) by the FDA, meaning that no safety studies need to be done nor is there any regulation of its safety for use in food.  And because it is considered part of the processing of the cheese rather than as an ingredient, it is not required to be listed as an ingredient on the label. 
Processed cheese is typically 3% sodium aluminum phosphate — that makes it the number one source of aluminum in our diet. The average American will absorb 30 times more aluminum into his blood from eating cheese than he would get from vaccination injections. Giving your child a grilled cheese sandwich is about the same as injecting him with 12 vaccinations.
Perhaps this is yet another reason why God sent His angel to say to His people living in the last days of earth’s history:  “cheese should never be introduced into the stomach” and  “it is wholly unfit for food.” R e m e m b e r, aluminum has no place in the biology of any form of life on this earth. It would be well for us to avoid it as much as possible.
The Source of this article is: http://secretsunsealed.org

Friday, April 26, 2013

WHAT WE EAT WE BECOME......


Why did God allow Meat eating?   

The first time the children of Israel ate meat after the exodus is recorded in Numbers chapter 11. Let’s examine this chapter and note the events that transpired therein:

“And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?”
(Num 11:4)

“We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick”
(Num 11:5)

Through the many years as slaves in Egypt, eating flesh meat became a common thing to do. If you notice, they mentioned the fish, and then they mentioned some vegetables, but their question shows what they really wanted:

“Who shall give us flesh to eat?”

Again they cried at Moses, “give us flesh, that we may eat” –verse 13.

One will notice while reading through this whole chapter that God did not really want to give them the flesh meat for their diet. In fact, as they cried in their lust for flesh meat, God told them that they will get their desire; in fact, they will get a whole month of meat, even until it leaks from their noses (verses’ 19-20). So the Lord blew a strong wind, and in came the meat they so desired. Verse 31 says that the Lord brought them quail, and while the meat was yet in between their teeth, the Lord sent a plague, and they all died (verse 33). Take note reader, that the meat these people ate was not unclean meat, but rather clean meat according to the clean/unclean laws of Leviticus 11. Would God give them an unclean animal to eat? Yet, to show them he did not want them eating meat at all, whether clean or unclean, he allowed them to have the lust of their hearts, and they reaped what they sowed, sickness and death.


The clean/unclean foods: Laws God did not desire

Within the writing of the prophet Ezekiel, we read the following:

“Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live.” (Ezekiel 20:25)

What would you say were the laws God gave to the children of Israel that he did not really want to give them? Let’s look at three of the most basic of those laws and see if these are it:

The Sabbath: Because the immediate context of the whole chapter of Ezekiel 20 seems to be more about the Sabbath, I decided to comment on this one first.

Was God displeased with giving them the Sabbath day law? The verses in this same chapter immediately say “no.” First, the verse says “statutes” and “judgments” in the plural sense. There is only one seventh day Sabbath. Second, verses before show how God really did want them to observe the Sabbath, because it was to be a “sign” that God is the one who sanctifies them (verses 12; 20). The Sabbath is also seen to continue on forever. Evidently, the saints of God will forever observe it even in the New Heavens and the New Earth (Isaiah 66:23). This is proof that the Sabbath has not been abolished, and that God in Ezekiel 20:25 is not speaking about the Sabbath. How could God regret giving them the Sabbath but allow it to continue forever?


The 10 Commandments: These laws, recorded first in Exodus 20, set moral rules for the believer to live by. “Thou shalt not murder” and “thou shalt not steal” are certainly laws we wouldn’t dream of saying God did not want to give. Each law within the 10 commandments has a moral application to everyone of us. When we violate the first four of these laws, which most recognize as laws referring to mans relationship with God, we sin against our selves, because it is a sin to break Gods law (1 John 3:4). When we sin against ourselves we risk damaging our relationship and we offend God who made us in his image, thus losing our salvation because we have not turned away from sin. When we violate the rest of the 10 commandments we commit sins against our neighbors, which will again cause us to hurt ourselves spiritually and most of the times physically in the process. Was God displeased with giving these laws? The logical answer is no.

The Feast days: Time and place must be considered. When God through Ezekiel penned those words in Ezekiel 20:25, the feast days, while God found more pleasure in obedience (1 Samuel 15:22), he did in fact wanted them to observe them as laws because he desired them to see something special within these feast days, namely, that Jesus is the true lamb of God, which would be sacrificed for them in the not so distant future (John 1:29; 1 Corinthians 5:7). Today, these feast days can still teach us much, but we know that they have all found their end at the cross, as Jesus is our paschal lamb, and so on. Yet in the times of Ezekiel, God wanted them to observe these feasts.

The only possible laws the Lord must have been speaking about in Ezekiel 20:25 would have to be the laws of clean and unclean meats as listed in Leviticus 11. The following are the reasons why this must be so:

-Reason 1: God has never desired the death of any of his creatures.
-Reason 2: As shown in Numbers 11, God does not desire our eating or neither clean nor unclean animals.
-Reason 3: Animal eating has never been part of the original plan for mankind’s health, and God desires we return to his original plan.

Every other law, for that time, were laws God ordered to be kept for some reason as to maintain order within the theocratic nation of Israel (as in the civil penalty laws -we believe God did not desire these as well) or for moral issues relating to salvation. The clean/unclean animal’s laws have nothing to do with the maintaining of a nation, nor with anything moral at that. Simply put, animal eating is just not necessary. We can get sufficient nutrients from the natural foods of the earth without eating flesh meat. The most convincing evidence is in the fact that meat eating came into the picture after the fall, and not before.
Source:  http://adventist-defense-league.blogspot.com